American Culture

Pew Research: Beliefs about the nature of God

“The most religious state? Mississippi… According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being ‘Very religious,’ meaning that ‘religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.’ And the least religious state?

“In college, when we studied Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, I realized my father was the disciple of a rather ancient set of values. He was a gentleman: someone who still practiced the art of manners, and as such, he was both inheritor and promulgator of the classical conservative tradition.” American Conservative

Christianity In A Polarized America

“If ‘exclusivism’ is the great enemy, it follows that Christianity is most admirable when it abandons its particular doctrinal and historical character, reducing itself to a series of vague, humanistic platitudes that you might hear from Oprah.” Intellectual Takeout

New Startling Study Reveals Schism on How Americans View Sin

“Americans who identify as agnostic or ‘nothing in particular’ are four times more likely to change their religious affiliation than Protestants or Catholics.” CToday

“I personally reject capitalized divine pronouns, and encourage other writers to do the same. I find the caps practice silly, inconsistent, and odious.” CrippleGate

Americans are drinking themselves to death at a record-breaking rate, according to a report. More than 30,700 people in the country died in 2014 from alcohol-related causes, including alcohol poisoning, the Washington Post reports, citing new federal data. Last year’s rate of 9.6 deaths per 100,000 people is an increase of 37% since 2002, according to the newspaper.

Can America Survive as a Post-Christian Nation? National Review