{"id":56346,"date":"2016-11-15T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pr_facttank_if_the_u-s-_had_100_people_charting_americans_religious_affilia\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:10:05","slug":"pr_facttank_if_the_u-s-_had_100_people_charting_americans_religious_affilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56346","title":{"rendered":"(PR FactTank) If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans\u2019 religious affiliations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the U.S. had 100 people: 71 would be Christian <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rlgQVW5fJJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/rlgQVW5fJJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZwmQdC5xBk\">pic.twitter.com\/ZwmQdC5xBk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PewResearch FactTank (@FactTank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactTank\/status\/798531505836486656\">November 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As of 2014, there were roughly 245 million adults in the United States, including 173 million Christians and 56 million people without a religious affiliation. These are big numbers that, along with many others in the religious demographic pie, can at times make it difficult to fully understand the American religious landscape.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we looked at this big picture a little differently? What if we imagined the United States as a small town, population 100, instead of a continent-spanning nation with hundreds of millions of people? Doing so presents an interesting thought experiment because it allows us to see basic data about the U.S. and its people in a fresh, simple and illuminating way.<\/p>\n<p>The following five charts use data from the 2014 Religious Landscape Study to create a religious demographic profile of the U.S. if the country were made up of exactly 100 adults.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/11\/14\/if-the-u-s-had-100-people-charting-americans-religious-affiliations\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the U.S. had 100 people: 71 would be Christian https:\/\/t.co\/rlgQVW5fJJ pic.twitter.com\/ZwmQdC5xBk &mdash; PewResearch FactTank (@FactTank) November 15, 2016 As of 2014, there were roughly 245 million adults in the United States, including 173 million Christians and 56 million people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56346\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,133,154,155,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}