Friday, November 02, 2007

MORE NON-THEISTS THAN LUTHERANS, PRESBYTERIANS, EPISCOPALIANS, JEWS AND

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NON-THEISTS - or Shafars as we call them - are now up to 12% of the US
population. This makes them twice as common as Lutherans, four times as
common as Presbyterians, six times more common than Episcopalians and 9
times more common as Jews. They have, however, yet to have appeared on
any US coinage nor have they been invited to open a session of the US
Senate. Nor has the media noticed.

Incidentally, in compiling these stats, we came across some 2002 figures
that
show which religions are the smartest based on SAT scores.
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post recently covered a rightwing
conference dealing with the question on why Jews were smarter than
everyone. In fact, these score show Jews ranking second to Unitarians
(Once again Shafars are not included) and barely ahead of Quakers. What
this suggests is that relative non-theism is more significant factor
than simple chosenness.

Average SAT score by religion

1 Unitarian/Universalist 1209
2 Judaism 1161
3 Society of Friends (Quakers) 1153
4 Hinduism 1110
5 Mennonite 1097
5 Reformed Church of America 1097
7 Episcopal 1096
8 Evangelical Lutheran Church 1094
9 Presbyterian Church (USA) 1092
10 Baha'i 1073

National Average 1020

[Shafar = Skeptics, humanists, agnostics, free thinkers, aethists &
rationalists]

MILBANK ARTICLE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2007/10/29/AR2007102902094.html



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