Nonsense! The ARIS study had NOTHING to do with divorce rates for any groups. It is simply to identify American Religious Identification. PERIOD.
You know Brum is anti-science and believes Evolution is a scam! You know he cuts and pastes all his material from feeble anti-science ('we hate atheists') web sites such as Cornelius hunter and "Vox day". So when he posts that sort of crap from disreputable sources...your antennae should go up INSTANTLY. LOL!
Of course, Vox day completely fabricated that "finding". And he obviously has never read the study (I HAVE). The study was strictly about identifying religious affiliation through common demographics such as age and gender and household income. .5% (1/2 of 1% of the respondents) were atheists. 20% of ALL respondents had NEVER been married. And 55% were currently married. And 5% (of all respondents) were living with a partner at the time.
Unlless you are an idiot who is completely clueless about statistics...none of this can be extrapolated to say anything whatsoever about the rates of divorce for various denominations. The study that can speak to divorce rates WAS done by a devout religious researcher...whose findings have been replicated over and over.
Finally--please listen closely: Rates of divorce have NOTHING to do with how often people within a group get married. Atheists DO get married and when they do they STAY MARRIED more often than Christians who get married. Rates of divorce is not about rates of marriage it is about the percentage who keep their commitments and honor their contract in marriage.
To my knowlege there are no studies to show the rates of "breaking up" outside of marriage for all the various religous and non-religious groups...but given the research done on marriage we may conclude (using the Law of Parsimony and general common sense) that that atheists would continue to lead the field in keeping their commitments outside of marriage--just as studies indicate they do inside of marriage! Likewise...there is no reason to suspect that the millions of Christians who are so unfaithful and unreliable WITHIN marriage...would be anything but more of the same when Yahweh has not presided over their love!!
The basic stats in the ARIS study:
- State (state)
- Census Division (cen_div)
- REGION (region)
- QUOTA GROUP (quota)
- Gender of Respondent: (gender)
- Besides the telephone number I reached you on, how many other telephone numbers, if any, does your household have that I could have reached you on? (dem_tem)
- Type of dwelling (dem1)
- Is your home owned or rented? (dem2)
- Are you: (READ LIST) (dem3)
- Would you consider yourself to be the head of this household ? (dem3a)
- Currently, are you yourself employed full-time, part-time, or not at all? (dem4)
- (ASK IF NOT EMPLOYED IN Q.4) Are you: (READ LIST) (dem5)
- Including yourself, how many people are there living in your household? (dem6)
- How many of these are adults, 18 or older? (dem6a)
- How many of these adults are male? (dem6b1)
- How many of these adults are female? (dem6b2)
- How many are children 12 to 17? (dem6c)
- How many are children 6 to 11? (dem6d)
- How many are children under 6? (dem6e)
- How many are children under 6? (dem6tot)
- What is the last grade of school you completed? (dem8)
- Is your total annual household income from all sources, and before taxes: (newdem9)
- Are you of Hispanic origin or background? (dem10)
- Are you White Hispanic or Black Hispanic? (dem10a)
- Would you consider yourself to be White, Black or of some other race? (dem11)
- Were you born in the U.S., Puerto Rico, or elsewhere? (sa8)
- What is your country of origin? (sa8a)
- What year did you come to the U.S.? (sa8b)
- How long have you been in the U.S.? (sa8c)
- Respondent is Hispanic (hispanic)
- Respondent is Hispanic and got SA section (hispand)
- What is your religion/Which denomination (jq1tot)
- What is your (spouse’s/partner’s/former spouse’s) religion/Which denomination (jq2tot)
- Age category 1 (agecat)
- Age category 2 (agecat2)
- Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as: (z11a)
- Are you registered to vote at your present address? (z11b)
- Does this H.H. currently subscribe to cable TV or use a Satellite dish? (cableq1)
- Video Summary (sum1.1-sum1.7)
- Video Game Summary (sum2.1-sum2.3)
- Satellite/Cable TV Summary (sum3.1-sum3.11)
- PC Summary (sum4.1-sum4.8)
- Online Summary (sum5.1-sum5.6)
- TV/Audio/Telecommunications Summary (sum6.1-sum6.6)
- DVD Summary (sum7.1-sum7.9)
- Have you moved in the past year? (cab_m1)
(state)
| Frequency | Percent | | Valid | ALABAMA | 823 | 1.6 | | ARKANSAS | 592 | 1.2 | | ARIZONA | 811 | 1.6 | | CALIFORNIA | 5034 | 10.0 | | COLORADO | 815 | 1.6 | | CONNECTICUT | 546 | 1.1 | | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 94 | .2 | | DELAWARE | 146 | .3 | | FLORIDA | 2627 | 5.2 | | GEORGIA | 1461 | 2.9 | | IOWA | 688 | 1.4 | | IDAHO | 361 | .7 | | ILLINOIS | 1692 | 3.4 | | INDIANA | 1064 | 2.1 | | KANSAS | 524 | 1.0 | | KENTUCKY | 865 | 1.7 | | LOUISIANA | 704 | 1.4 | | MASSACHUSETTS | 1050 | 2.1 | | MARYLAND | 955 | 1.9 | | MAINE | 386 | .8 | | MICHIGAN | 1870 | 3.7 | | MINNESOTA | 1004 | 2.0 | | MISSOURI | 1030 | 2.0 | | MISSISSIPPI | 517 | 1.0 | | MONTANA | 302 | .6 | | NORTH CAROLINA | 1772 | 3.5 | | NORTH DAKOTA | 175 | .3 | | NEBRASKA | 370 | .7 | | NEW HAMPSHIRE | 281 | .6 | | NEW JERSEY | 1270 | 2.5 | | NEW MEXICO | 354 | .7 | | NEVADA | 311 | .6 | | NEW YORK | 3152 | 6.3 | | OHIO | 2319 | 4.6 | | OKLAHOMA | 619 | 1.2 | | OREGON | 771 | 1.5 | | PENNSYLVANIA | 2699 | 5.4 | | RHODE ISLAND | 182 | .4 | | SOUTH CAROLINA | 793 | 1.6 | | SOUTH DAKOTA | 183 | .4 | | TENNESSEE | 1110 | 2.2 | | TEXAS | 2923 | 5.8 | | UTAH | 415 | .8 | | VIRGINIA | 1471 | 2.9 | | VERMONT | 173 | .3 | | WASHINGTON | 1199 | 2.4 | | WISCONSIN | 1133 | 2.3 | | WEST VIRGINIA | 485 | 1.0 | | WYOMING | 160 | .3 | | Total | 50281 | 100.0 | Division (cen_div) |
