I had no idea we have so many Buddhists!
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We don't really. The largest group is obviously Christian. The second largest group in every state is those with no religion, but they are ignored here. And the remaining 1-13 percent is split among a number of minority groups, meaning that the second largest religion in each state is only about <1-6 percent of the population.
The second largest group in every state is those with no religion
How do you count that. I know a lot of people who will call themselves Christian if asked - but they never do anything to show it. They are never seen in Church (not even Christmas), only know the parts of the bible everybody knows because they are common (a couple of the 10 commandments, "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want", Jesus had 12 disciples). Last I checked about 40% of the US attends a christian church, but it appears to me like the majority of the rest of not no religion, but just don't bother practicing their claimed religion. (though it isn't clear how their kids will end up) You can thus count them either way.
The problem is that these polls are self-reporting, so there's no way to count nominal Christians separately despite them likely making up the majority of the country and having a lifestyle closer to that of an irreligious person.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/
If you have any problem with their methods you can take it up with them.
No true Scotsman. You can call yourself anything... Except some things... Mostly because of people who call themselves something.
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Is Mormonism considered a form of Christianity here? Even with the stuff about planets?
It's Christianity+.
The plus is just extra craziness.
Jesus, the Mormons change their doctrine all the time, just like mainstream βChristiansβ. They have even backed away from the βstuff about planetsβ in recent years. They want so badly to be bland.
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Yeah, we're pretty generous about what counts. I'd argue most evangelicals aren't sincerely Christian either but whatever.
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Momos would say yes (a recent change), most Christians would shrug, some Christians would be offended that you would suggest it and say that mormonism is a heresy.
The ones who shrug probably don't know what mormonism is. Anytime I've told a Christian who didn't know, their immediate reaction was "WTF"
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Baptists dislike Catholics. So of course they have a problem with Mormons. Just like they all have a problem with all other religions. Of the three brands I just named the Catholics are to me the most tolerant of others. Not that they are that tolerant. Mormans hide their intolerance with some fake happy smile but they are still just as intolerant. Especially to their own people.
I group Abrahamic religions thusly: Judaism, Christianity, Mormon, Jehovahs Witness, Scientology. But as murderface put it about religion: "It's all the same shit!"
Wait, Scientology? Scientology isn't Christian at all... is it? I thought it was sci-fi nonsense?
It is, but the texts are given from aliens in space, and in scientology bad thoughts and actions create engrams of the spirit, one man brought the teachings to earth, sunday services, collars, cross iconography... mostly intentional copy/paste from Christianity stuff, which was a lot of copy/paste stuff from Judaism (mixed with Norse paganism to spice it up!). Ooooh and the best part!? The drive to lure people in to the seats to spread the word, and punish all the naysayers at any cost!
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Somebody shoulds tells Murderface that it's not alsways-ways abouts him.
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This is clearly counting Mormons as Christians here, despite their significant divergence
Probably because that "significant divergence" isn't enough to make them not Christians. Joseph Smith's bible fanfic might be as ridiculous and idiotic as he was but that's not enough to distinguish it from the previous iterations.
Usually adding a new prophet gets you a separate category, in abrahamic religions.
And sometimes a bad Twilight fanfic gets turned into a book and a couple movies. Doesn't happen for them all.
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No, they're True Christians.
Not sure why you got downvoted... They believe they are.
Of course every religion believes they are the "true" ones.
Utah stands out on this to me. This map conflates all denominations of shared religions, and Utah is notably 50% Mormon and 13% other Christian denominations. Since some denominations of a shared religion are significantly different from each other and can shape the cultural landscape, it seems like part of the picture is missing with just the information shown.
I think it would also be helpful if this map also noted which states had a second most common religion at more than 1% or so of the population.
Mormons are Christians in the same way Baptists and Catholics are both Christians. It's not different enough to be considered a whole new religion.
Results are pretty encouraging if you broaden the question slightly to include people who aren't religious. There are probably people out there who might draw an incorrect conclusion from the map posted here and think that these colors represent the views of the second largest group of people (some of whom may vote) in those states.
They're conveniently skipping past 20 to 30 percent of the population to show the ~1-2% and smaller fractions.
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We have such a wide variety of cults to choose from.
Pick one so you can hate the rest!
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I actually would have guessed Islam for Utah
South Carolina and Arizona out here like, "we built different"
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If atheism was included, it'd be the biggest along a variety of states
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