{"id":15379,"date":"2026-01-31T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15379"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:17:06","slug":"from-pew-an-easy-chart-of-americas-beliefs-and-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15379","title":{"rendered":"From Pew; An easy chart of America&#8217;s beliefs and practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pew Research Firm is very reliable and thanks to EM for sending this to me &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2026\/01\/29\/if-the-us-had-100-people-charting-americans-religious-beliefs-and-practices\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2026\/01\/29\/if-the-us-had-100-people-charting-americans-religious-beliefs-and-practices\/\">As of 2023, about 218 million of the 262 million adults in the United States said they believe in God or a universal spirit. Large numbers like these can be difficult to picture, but what if we scaled down the numbers by imagining a town of 100 people?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There were five questions &#8211; here&#8217;s the first one; hit the link for the rest. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the U.S. was a town of 100 people, 25 of them would attend religious services in person weekly or more often. Another eight would go once or twice a month, and 18 would go a few times a year. Forty-nine people would seldom or never attend religious services in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pew-religious-services-605x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15380\" style=\"width:253px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pew-religious-services-605x1024.jpg 605w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pew-religious-services-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pew-religious-services.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Research Firm is very reliable and thanks to EM for sending this to me &#8211; As of 2023, about 218 million of the 262 million adults in the United States said they believe in God or a universal spirit. Large numbers like these can be difficult to picture, but what if we scaled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-family-stuff","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15381,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions\/15381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}