so richard the american
religious identification survey is uh...
probably the most common to study of
religious demographics in the united
states
adams
it's interesting to note
this particular study that's uh... has
been run again confirms that only one
point six percent of the american
population actually identifies
expedience
but super good it is actually means
there are people that you know it's it's
one point six is not a small percentage
but it's interesting to note that's
uh... americans who are more men are
only one point four percent of the
population
abused people are only one point two
percent of the population
and moslems are only
point six percent of the population so
actually
numbers are not non-significant but
the thing the sort of hearkens back to
what we've been talking about uh... a
couple weeks ago with
the surrealism ireland right without
various numbers of jobs
when you look at the people in the
united states actually claim
no belief in god or that they claim no
particular religion uh...
uh... they actually is more like
eighteen point four percent of americans
have no affiliation and knows the
believe
uh... or stated so quickly blvd
agnostics right agnostics for people who
in fact
are probably its
they're just sort of freight of using
the word do stigma uh...
reports came out this time ah...
this year arrested two thousand one
actually
where exists were in surveys is for
listed to be as trustworthy as rapists
for
the k_k_k_ uh... was anymore like group
the than eighty s marne mentoring mer
stand
so i mean there's definitely a social
stigma of of being an atheist uh...
a country where
eighty-one roughly eighty one percent of
the people
proclaim some kind of belief in god
so really hyper delight
most european country i don't think that
most people would realize there's more
eighty is in our mormons
you know
and and you know certainly consider that
what we've seen this year that
spivak manager claims forty million
members
only five million of people are actually
active
members so
that sort of skews the numbers even
further
condom in a related uh... little piece
that i found university of
chicago
reporter on april eighteenth religious
published a study called
belief about god across time and culture
is
and they found that
uh... belief in god is actually
higher older people regardless of what
to do
and
um...
across
uh... the entire planet
um...
on average
uh... forty three percent of people
sixty eight and pulled her
believe that god exists
where cross the planet's uh...
only twenty three percent of people
twenty seven and younger
believe that god exists
profit they got definitely exists so
um...
the numbers are different united states
to expect one of the muslims countries
in the world
by actually think
this is going to be uh...
gradual dark but we really optimistic
uh... report said
that fifty-four fifty four percent of
americans younger than twenty eight said
they were certain god's existence of the
four percent that would still be a
majority of people younger than twenty
eight
sixty six percent
uh... those people sixty-eight older
said they believe that god exists and
this is interesting to me because the
average sliced and the united states
currently
is seventy eight point one year spent
so
in let's say roughly ten years
when those people sixty a or alder
are largely dead
and all is demographic
united states is going to look much
different place religiously speaking
if those numbers hold
and and that
and on those sixty eight
people sixty-eight or older
argonne and that present owners of of
of believe and disbelief all
the
blobby however
of the christian right trade
utilities really eroded and then think
what will it look like ten years after
that
would you know it's actually
there's actually something interesting
about that uh... read an article about
having here with us but not just for an
article that was discussing actually how
are more people basically r_t_e_ and to
the police are
seem very similar to this opted to the
belief of got as they get older selected
as a study of outside intervention as
well that is as people get to you're
close to the dying actually do
meet the maybe they really is very
massive reason returning as though that
fear death comes into play
and have people going to the religion in
that sense so i would buy would be
curious to see more like
in sixty years for tax friend uh... of
how many people
gil closer to their like
n_b_c_ death coming on the rise in
do do we still have people who don't
seeking an hour but we have enough kind
of hard answer hard not to lose a days
the shin university of chicago city
actually noted
that's done
the findings suggest that
the belief in god is very much
influenced by anticipate in anticipation
of your own mortality
uh...
which is not really very reasoned
assistance true not by any
it it makes sense i mean
humans don't want to die
so i mean as we'd have to face that
reality
try to find the poll
let's all and i'm not mocking people who
are approaching death and our
fearful of it
you know it's easy
process younger meant to
kat you know lack for market you know
cracker definitely cavalier about it
but i do think it's interesting
uh...
the the tired
seems to be turning
education and and people having
discussion and information being more
widely available
is actually starting to turn the corner
i think and and i think that we're
gonna see
something positive
come from basically the erosion of
the religious right in this country
and
people are gonna actually start dealing
with each other
on
non-religious terms
because they're not going to be the
majority
anymore i mean it's actually it's
exciting to be in a way
to think of
what is the demographic of the country
to be like one and forty
you know another
nine years right so it's it's really
interesting to me so
more as it develops yet
service a lot of it
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