06-26-2013, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by greazzer
You must get all of your news from MSNBC, but that is a different story ...
The vast majority of the USA is Christian, about 75% or 3 out of 4. Does that equal the voting majority ... probably not. No Christian is "freaking out" over the administration. Just a healthy concern because of the increasing number of jabs, slights, and insults towards us Christains. It's very clear that the current agenda by our current "leader" is not so friendly to the Faith. Rather, there seems to be a clear bending over backwards for our islam brothers. I wonder why? For example, the agenda to create a seperate sharia law court is alive in the USA, but I wonder what would happen if our consitutional scholar of a president caught wind of a Canon Law Court being created in the USA? And, we all know what B.O. does if you do not waive the hope and change banner ... one gets targeted by the IRS, DOJ, and the list goes on. 2014 is coming up. If the Republicans, or any party for that matter, can effectively promise more gifts and handouts to the intended audience who coincidentially is also the voting majority, then that party will win. B.O. proved that in 2012.
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you get this fact from wikipedia?
other sources differ. This article thinks more like between 10 and 20%.
How Many "Real Christians" In North America? - Theologica
excerpt-
"I had a feeling that the popular statistics were misleading (Wikipedia - 76%
of Americans are Christians...palleeeaaase!!), so I dug a little
deeper. The Gallup polls indicate that 40% of North Americans indicate
that they attend Church regularly, but I found that number to be very
suspect, so I dug a little more.
An article by Christianity Today deemed "Statistical Illusion" indicates that many lie about their Church attendance (no
way!!), and indicates that only about 20% of North Americans attend
church regularly. The Ontario Consultants On Religious Tolerance did an in depth study
and came away with roughly the same percentage - 20%. And Dave Olson,
the director of church planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church has a very interesting
slideshow that indicates church attendance in the United States at
only 18.7%.
So, 20% huh? Not so fast. What I want to know is how many are really "practicing Christians." Everybody (well, most everybody?) knows that
not everybody in a Church is a Christian. So how many of that 20% or so
who regularly attend church are really "committed Christians" and not
just "pew-warmers"?
I was talking with one of the Pastors of a large local Mainstream church (5,000 members or so) here in the Dallas area last fall, and he told me
that he figures that only about a third of those in attendance on any
given Sunday are confessing Christians.
A third?!? Surely not?
If that number is true when averaged out among all churches in North America, that would mean that only 6% of the population in North America
are true-blue, confessing, practicing Christians! "
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