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To: ansel12
Dear ansel12,

Unless you count everyone who isn't Catholic or Jewish as Protestant, "more than 75%" is a significant exaggeration of the number of Protestants in the United States. Here's a breakdown I found at wikipedia:

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Main religious preferences of Americans United States religiosity

Religion Percent

Christianity 78.4%
Unaffiliated 16.1%
Judaism 1.7%
Buddhism 0.7%
Islam 0.6%
Hinduism 0.4%
Other 1.2%


According to a 2007 survey,[9] the following is the order of religious preferences in the United States:

Christianity: (78.4%)
Protestantism (51.3%)
Roman Catholicism (23.9%)
Mormon (1.7%)
Jehovah's Witness (0.7%)
Orthodox Church (0.6%)
other Christian (0.3%)

Unaffiliated, including atheist or agnostic (16.1%)
Judaism (1.7%)
Buddhist (0.7%)
Islam (0.6%)
Hinduism (0.4%)
other (1.2%)

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Thus, Protestants comprise about half the population, not "more than 75%".


sitetest

9 posted on 09/29/2009 10:28:39 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

Read it again.

“I don’t know why he has to attack Jews and Protestants but since Protestants are more than 75% of the Christian population in America including almost all of the 13% of the population that is black I hope that they account for more problems than the Catholics and I really wonder if the problem is “common” in the Jewish community.

Is it really appropriate for those foreign people in Italy to be launching such an attack against American Jews and Protestants?”


10 posted on 09/29/2009 10:31:26 AM PDT by ansel12
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