Top 5 Surprising Revelations About the Religious

What follows comes from Dr. Ryan Burge.

Who?

He is a guy who teaches at Eastern Illinois University. There he is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research primarily focuses on the interaction of religiosity and political behavior, hence his Twitter stream is full of some amazing statistical insights.

What you will discover, if you follow him on Twitter, is a fascinating flow of statistics. Some of these are quite surprising. So regardless of what you might, or might not, believe, what the data itself reveals can be quite a revelation.

Let’s jump in.

Below are five examples that throw back the curtain to reveal that things are often not how we might assume them to be.

Item 1 — The Decline of White Christianity

Let’s start with something you might already be aware of. Christianity is in decline.

The twist here is that this is a chart that specifically measures the percentages of just white people, and it goes right back to the 70s.