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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
*** 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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