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Mosby

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7. 16% of Americans are evangelical Christians.

Reply to PortTack (Reply #3)

Fri May 28, 2021, 05:01 PM

May 2021

The proportion of US adults who are white born-again or evangelical Protestants – the religious group which strives hardest to see its political agenda adopted – is now 16%, down from 19% a decade ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/americans-less-christian-religion-survey-pew

Christian affiliation is way down, people instead are turning to qanon and new age movements like astrology and creation mythology.

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