Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 04/19/2015

DEAR FRIEND:

The End of White Christian Am=rica is Approaching

In the on-line news magazine Alternet, Brooklyn writer and journalist Amanda Mancotte recently wrote — The a=d of white Christian America is nigh: Why the country's youth are abandoning religious conservatism=— As White Christians are now a minority in 19 states and America's growi=g racial diversity only tells part of the story. New data from the American Values Atlas shows that while Caucasians continue to be the maj=rity in all but 4 states in the country, white Christians are the minority in a whopping 19 states. And, nationwide, Ameri=ans who identify as Protestant are now in the minority for the first time ever, clocking in at a mere 47 percent of Americans and falling.

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