Quote: But a new Pew Research Center analysis looks at beliefs and behaviors that cut across many denominations – important traits that unite people of different faiths, or that divide people who have the same religious affiliation – producing a new and revealing classification, or typology, of religion in America.
Move over nones! There's a new typology in town!
(Fairly) fresh from Pew, what are your thoughts on this new typology? I find it hard to classify myself, for example, for while I'm in the non-religious group, I don't know if I'm a religion resister or solidly secular. Heck, even the name "religion resister" has some implication that I'm resisting the inevitable or that I'm in opposition to religion, which I'm not.
Although the preamble suggests that the categories are non-denominational there is consistent reference to the Bible. If any meaningful typology is to be presented then the content must be constructed impartially. There is an assumed propensity for Christian bias which nullifies the results.
I’m definitely a religion resister. I’d like to be spiritually awake but that seems to mean new-agey to the pollsters, and I don’t go for that new age stuff in general.
God-and-Country types: They seem to be people who want a solid authority in control, not only in religion but in society and government. I wonder how many of those folks are eldest siblings. In any event, they are the ones who make the most impact politically. Though a minority (4% of the total population), they tend to taint the reputation of religion.
It’s an interesting article and I will study it further.