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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (17780)	7/8/2001 11:00:08 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

We've talked on this thread off and on about statistics regarding the prevalence of secular people in our society. Here are some numbers you might find interesting. <<California voters are in the forefront of the emergence of the rise of non-religious voters, a trend taking place nationally. National Election Studies polls show the number of people who say they have no religious beliefs or they believe in something other than the Christian or Jewish faiths tripling from 5 percent in 1972 to 16 percent in 1998. Although the percentage saying they regularly attend church has remained constant over the past 30 years at approximately 37 percent, the percentage saying they never go to church rose sharply from 14 percent to 33 percent from 1972 to 1998.>> I've clipped all there is about religion. The rest of the article is about whether changing demographics favor the Reps or the Dems. washingtonpost.com Karen