I had heard about the big PRRI survey of religious attitudes and issues this summer, but it happened right before I went on vacation, and I hadn't had a chance to unpack it. But, an actually interesting person at Medium, originally blogging elsewhere, talked about it. That said, David Gamble got one thing a bit wrong, as I told him in a comment. And, it's time to talk about that.
For my take, the biggest issue is NOT the decline of fundagelical Christians, discussed a week ago, but what this graph below says, from his post, but actually from a Pew study, not PRRI:
And, that's why I have the header.
Because they HAVE slipped.
So, why?
Are some nones now "nunya" and not answering? Did some of them, like fundagelicals, go to mainline Protestant churches because of COVID existential fears?
There's other stories to pull out of the full PRRI survey. The biggest is, whether in part from more diversity in US immigration patterns or what, the rise in belief in "other world religions," that is, anything besides the Judeo-fig-leaf-Christian America.
PRRI's presser also has interesting facts. The most religiously diverse spots in America are greater NYC, and Montgomery County on the Maryland side of DC, no shocks, even more so than the Bay Area ...
And ...
Navajo County, Arizona!
That's actually no shock to me. Per its name, it had the heart of the "Big Rez," plus the Fort Apache reservation AND part of the Hopi reservation. Hopis are among the most traditionalist of Pueblos. The western side of the Navajo Nation contains many of its most traditionalist peoples. It's about 50 percent American Indian.
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