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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the people you describe are religious. They're extremists who have no virtuous qualities. They exist within every denomination. Hypocrites sit in the first pew.

People who identified as Catholic declined from 81% in 1986 to 47% in 2020, while the number of people who identified as not religious rose from 16% to 40%. The traditionalists are the older generation who are being replaced by younger generations. However, the older generation has declined, as well, and not because they died. There's a Pew research study. I'm laughing at anyone who thinks Trump is religious. Holding a bible for a photo op doesn't count. His cronies need their oxygen cut off. 
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[b]81% of what?[/b]No way Catholics were 81% of the population in 1986.[/quote]

73.7% in 2016. So 81% in 1986 seems accurate. Pew study isn’t opening for me. The numbers in context are somewhat ambiguous, but below specifically states population. Could it be a carved out percentage of only those who identify as religious?
“Christianity, the largest religion in the United States, was 73.7% of the total population in 2016. The 2014 Religious Landscape Study finds a large majority (87.6%) of those who were raised as Christians in the United States still identify as such, while the rest who no longer identify as Christians mostly identify as religiously unaffiliated. In 2019, 65% of American adults described themselves as Christians. In 2020, 47% of Americans said that they belonged to a church, down from 70% in 1999.” 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Christianity_in_the_Western_world
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That’s not “Catholic declined from 81% in 1986”. Were you just pulling that out of your butthole? 
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