Unless Gallup is intentionally trying to deceive the public, it sounds like 3/4 of all Americans identified *themselves*, not their families, as Christian. To what degree they practice their faith is anyone's guess. The same goes for any other religion and it's adherents.
From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians Depends on what questions they asked, doesn't it? If they asked me if I was from a "Christian family" about the only thing I could say was my maternal grandmother was a Methodist and attended church. The rest of us just said "meh."On 12/31/2013 05:06 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: >A recent Gallup poll refutes the claim made by Barack Obama on March 9, 2008 >that “we are no longer a Christian nation.” > > >Gallup found that three quarters of all Americans - a supermajority - identify >themselves as Christians, with only five percent saying they are practicing >members of a non-Christian faith. > > >http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/gallup-only-5-religious-americans-are-non-christians
