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Facebook is already a news source for nearly half of all Americans.

More than 80 percent of government research money goes to just one hundred academic institutions.3

In every tradition, the more education people have, the more likely they are to stay in church.

Consider the shift in religious demographics since the publication of Bellah’s piece on civil religion in 1967. According to Gallup, 92% of Americans identified as Christian in 1967.15 That left 3% as Jewish, 3% as another faith, and only 2% claiming no faith. In terms of demographics, the U.S. was basically a nation of Christians. And it was parti

NatCen Social Research’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey is widely regarded as the gold standard for surveys of public views about a variety of social topics including attitudes towards health and social care.

Aside from marriage (49%), police (41%), and democracy (37%), not a single US institution had more than 33 percent confidence of this group. Some institutions in which exvangelicals have particularly low confidence are the public education system (27%), criminal justice system (25%), big technology companies (22%), US Congress (20%), newspapers (18

A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that almost 85 percent of Americans believe that they are very happy or at least happy.