alt.education

On Feb 27, 7:37=A0pm, Pastor Dave wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:41:00 -0800 (PST), Wide Eyed in
> Wonder spake thusly:
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> >On Feb 25, 4:19 pm, Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
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> >> To the amazement of those doing the study (which I guess were looking
> >> for less religion), a new study by Pew Research has found America is
> >> "still" greatly religious.
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> >>/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-religion26feb26,...=

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> >> Here's some stats from the survey..
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> >> Christian - %
> >> Jewish - %
> >> Buddhists - %
> >> Muslim - %
> >> Hindu - %
> >> New Age - %
> >> Atheist - %
> >> Agnostic - %
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> >> One of the interesting things I saw was concerning Evangelicals.
> >> According to many on the political left, Evangelicals are a small,
> >> extremist group within Christianity that holds no power. =A0In fact,
> >> this survey shows that Evangelicals are the LARGEST religious group in
> >> America, beating even Catholics. =A0Indeed, Evangelicals (at %) wer=
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> >> much larger than the mainline Protestant denominations in the country
> >> ( percent)
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> >> Another thing of interest has to do with the charge that Christians
> >> are brainwashed. =A0This study shows that 4 in 10 adults have recently
> >> changed their religious affiliation, yet they remain CHRISTIAN. =A0So,
> >> they are thinking on their own and rejecting those in authority over
> >> them, while reasoning that the faith, itself, is sound. =A0Indeed, the
> >> educational distribution page shows that 50 percent of the religious
> >> had some college (37 percent being college graduates or more). =A0So,
> >> they had great reasoning ability.
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> >> Further, there were more Pentecostals (at % of Americans) than
> >> mainline Lutherans (%), Presbyterians (%), Anglicans (%),
> >> mainline Bapists (%), and other groups.
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> >> The AGE of the religious is ALSO very interesting. =A0The incorrect myt=
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> >> has been that people choose to follow God either as uneducated youths
> >> or the extreme elderly. =A0This study shows this to be false. =A0The
> >> religious in the 30-49 age group (39%) were larger than the SUM of
> >> both the youth group (20%) and the elderly (16%). =A0So, the largest
> >> group were the middle age, educated, family-leading, career providing,
> >> American citizens.
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> >> The GENDER info provided equally interesting information. =A0Contrary t=
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> >> the belief that Evangelicals and Protestants were oppressive to women,
> >> this survey find that women were, by far, the majority gender in these
> >> denominations.
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> >> The income section show that 48 percent of the religious came from
> >> those that made over 50 thousand dollars, dismissing the belief that
> >> this was a religious crutch for those in need. =A0Further, it could sho=
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> >> that God provides for those that trust in Him.
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> >> As I said...VERY interesting findings that it will take the other side
> >> a LOT of spinning to hide.
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> >> Kenneth Clifton
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> >One more note, upon further research, has to do with DIVORCE. =A0It has
> >been the assumption that divorce is as prominent in Evangelical
> >churches as any other group. =A0Yet, this survey finds that ONLY 13
> >PERCENT of Evangelicals were divorced, compared to a national average
> >that says 1 in 2 marriages fail.
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> >Kenneth Clifton
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> The "church" doesn't matter. =A0However, what is true,
> is that in families that read the Bible together regularly
> and pray together regularly, the divorce rate the last
> time I checked, was about 2%.
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Checked where? Do you have a link for this?