Say Goodbye to Protestant America

[BobRyan]

At this link --

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/09/survey-protestants-are-no-longer-majority-in-u-s/

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Washington (CNN) – Following a string of recent developments that suggest waning Protestant power – like the first Supreme Court with no Protestant justices, and a Protestant-free Republican presidential ticket – a new Pew survey finds that Protestants are no longer the majority in the United States.

The Protestant population has declined from 53% of the U.S. population in 2007 to 48% this year, according to the survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, released Tuesday.

The results mark the first time since Pew has been tracking the country's religious demographics that the share of Protestant Christians in the United States has dipped significantly below 50%.

The largest decline among Protestant subgroups tracked by Pew was among white mainline Protestants, whose proportion of the population dropped 3 percentage points, from 18% to 15%.

At the release of the Pew survey, John Green, a senior adviser at Pew, quoted historian Robert Wuthnow in characterizing the changes as part of a wider “restructuring of American religion.”

[BobRyan]

So now - what WERE those "two lamb like horns" again???

[Bravus]

Ummm... might want to check the numbers of Catholics... I suspect those are falling too, as the 'unaffiliated' numbers rise.

It's not about one religion taking over from another, it's about 'no religion' taking over from all religions.

[LifeHiscost]

Quote:

It's not about one religion taking over from another, it's about 'no religion' taking over from all religions.

Not to mention that it is the nation of America that came out of the wilderness as a lamb and spoke as a dragon subsequently. I'd have to do further research to point to the specifics, but it surely seems we've (North America) been speaking like a dragon for a good many years now.

God blesses!

[BobRyan]

The two lamb like horns - "protestantism and republicanism". We were as a nation a Protestant Republic.

See A Word to the “Little Flock,” pp. 9, 10; also George Holt in Present Truth, March, 1850, p. 64.

† The chart was 29 inches wide by 44 inches long. In the upper right hand corner is the title: A Pictorial Illustration of the Visions of Daniel & John and Their Chronology. Published by O. Nichols, Dorchester, Mass. ...reads: “The two lamb like horns, Republicanism & Protestantism"

when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government...--5T 451 (1885).

A Unique Symbol—Here is a striking figure of the rise and growth of our own nation. And the lamblike horns, emblems of innocence and gentleness, well represent the character of our government, as expressed in its two fundamental principles, republicanism and Protestantism (The Spirit of Prophecy 4:277). 7BC 975.3

This was "news" to some people in RL a few years ago. But I think they have accepted it in more recent times.

in Christ,

Bob

[phkrause]

This is not shocking at all. All in God's time.

[olger]

A steady stream of illegals from mexico may elevate the catholic quotient of America as well.

[Naomi]

excellent observation