The following item was originally posted in October 2009, and I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries (sometimes with a little editing). This post quotes from Michael Spencer, the late author of …
Tag: Evangelicalism
Spending priorities
What should Congress cut? According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, American Evangelicals are most likely to favor reducing funding for the following items in the federal budget: Aid to the world's poor Unemployment Environment Health care Scientific research Aid to U.S. poor In each of these cases, Evangelicals were more likely than non-Evangelicals …
Switching religions
A significant number of people move from their childhood faith to another, as shown in this diagram from Eclectic Christian and Internet Monk: Most who "change faiths" do so by age 23 or 24. After that people are mostly set in their ways. Note that we Evangelicals lose about as many of our own children …
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