[lbo-talk] Xians down to 77%!

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<http://www.gallup.com/poll/117409/Easter-Smaller-Percentage-Americans-Christian.aspx 

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This Easter, Smaller Percentage of Americans Are Christian
Americans more likely now than in previous decades to say they have no  
religious identity

by Frank Newport

PRINCETON, NJ -- The percentage of Americans who identify with some  
form of a Christian religion has been dropping in recent decades, and  
now stands at 77%, according to an aggregate of Gallup Polls conducted  
in 2008. In 1948, when Gallup began tracking religious identification,  
the percentage who were Christian was 91%.

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