[lbo-talk] Protestant Numbers

[Kevin Robert Dean]

Apologies if this has been posted already
>From Yahoo News
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* A steep rise in the number of people who said they currently have no religion: 14% in 2002, up from 9% in 1992. It's even higher for younger people: Among those born in 1980 or later, 27% said they have no religion. "Each succeeding group is less religious than the preceding," Smith says. 

• The number of people who call themselves just "Christian" has nearly doubled. "That category didn't exist in the 1970s. It climbed to 1.2% in the last 10 years and it is 2.3% for 2003 alone. Most were once Protestants, Smith says.

• Among all immigrants - 10% of the U.S. population in 2002 - only one in four are Protestant. 

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