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(06-23-2015, 11:15 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Pat,

By age

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/age-distribution/

Now look at the married vs others.  

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/marital-status/

This backs up my assertion that getting married is one of the main reasons people find religion.   This is due to a spouse typically.  

Also by age young people are alwags non religious as a whole but they mature in faith .... Whether it be getting their by spouse or other factors.    

I can't past the pics only the links atm.  

Your stance that young people are moving away from faith is flawed because traditionally young people have been less with their faith than older generations.    You would need to run this poll i. About 30 years and see whether your assertions are valid.    Until then it's all up in the air because it's hard to believe that Millennials will all of a sudden do what no other generation has done.

The unaffiliated are growing faster than any other group because Christians are switching as they get older at a greater rate than the unaffiliated are losing members raised in unaffiliated households.

Quote:Now where I get 50% is where we take 9.2 raised in Unaffiliated .... Then losing 4.3 ...    I stopped there to just look at the those who were raised unaffiliated.....  They are also losing people, which is consistent with raised religious .  Which could be just kids rebelling against what they were raised.

Unaffiliated lost 4.3% while Christians lost 19.2%.  Unaffiliated gained 18% while Christians gained 4.2%.  Unaffiliated had a net gain of 13.6% while Christians had a net loss of 15%.  The damn title in big bold letters reads Unaffiliated Make Big Gains Through Religious Switching.  Do you know what big gains means?  Followed by Catholics and Mainline Protestants Suffer Large Losses.  Do you know what large losses mean?

You claimed, "I showed that non religious lost over half of their people who became religious as they got older."

4.3/9.2=.467

The unaffiliated lost 47%, not over half.  That's 5th grade math.  And I'm being generous.  It's amusing watching you call others low class, uneducated, unintelligent, lazy, and ill mannered because they use profanity, but basic math and reading and understanding a chart are above your ability level.