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razib

  • 11:29:49 am on June 23, 2008 | # | |
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    religion in america survey:

    Belief in God or Universal Spirit - Do not believe in god

    evangelical xtian - 0%
    mainline xtian - 1%
    historically black denom - 0%
    catholics - 1%
    mormons - 0%
    orthodox - 4%
    jews - 10%
    muslims - 5%
    buddhists - 19%
    hindus -5%

    what’s going on here? i was a bit surprised by the fact that 5% of muslims said they didn’t believe in god…but, i believe like judaism and hinduism islam in the united states is a minority religion which has ethno-cultural saliences for people raised in that tradition. therefore, the tendency to continue to identify as muslims in some way despite an open admission of atheism.

     
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