Re: [FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians
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
[FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians
A recent Gallup poll refutes the claim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik made by Barack Obama on March 9, 2008 that “we are no longer a Christian nation.” Gallup http://www.gallup.com/ 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 http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/gallup-only-5-religious-americans-are-non-christians
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik made by Barack Obama on March 9, 2008 that “we are no longer a Christian nation.” Gallup http://www.gallup.com/ 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
Re: [FairfieldLife] Gallup: Only 5% of Religious Americans Are Non-Christians
Not surprisingly, the quote was taken out of context and an important qualifier deleted. Here's the actual quote: Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. From FactCheck.org, 2008 (yes, this misleading claim has been around for a while): http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/obama-and-the-christian-nation-quote/ http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/obama-and-the-christian-nation-quote/ And remember that 5 percent of the U.S. population is almost 16 million people.
