Just a quicky. here are a couple of links on the subject of non (religious ) belief. The Huffington Post is a very very good site for thinking people who want an insight into American life, a subject of importance after all. In a large poll 15% professed non-belief, a group larger than any single denomination such as Catholics or Mormons. The group describing itself as evangelist or funamentalist seems to be a terrifying 35%. But we are looking at two groups that are not easy to compare - one group shouts louder than the other.
A very interesting figure to know would be the proportion of the religious who came to their beliefs when they were old enough to reason for themselves.
Bob,
ReplyDeleteI agree that The Huffington Post is a good venue and a natural course given the obit which is about to be written for American newspapers.
I do believe that if one has faith ingrained at an early age, they are better equipped to make decisions regarding their spiritual path, or lack thereof, as they get older.