None Of The Above – Above
The BBC reports on a recent poll:US Christians numbers ‘decline sharply’, poll finds
The number of Americans who identify as Christian has fallen nearly eight percentage points in only seven years, according to a new survey.
Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans identified as Christian in 2014 – down from 78% in 2007.
In the same period, Americans identifying as having no religion grew from 16% to 23%.
Fifty-six million Americans do not observe any religion, the second largest community after Evangelicals.
This just reflects a normal cycle in the US. Every so often since the founding of the United States there is a religious revival movement [‘awakening’] that flourishes and then fades. It generally fades when it turns to politics and leaves spiritual matters behind.
May 12, 2015 Comments Off on None Of The Above – Above
No Rest For Nepal
They were just starting to get organized and back to a small degree of normalcy when they got hit with a massive aftershock. The US Geologic Service has a summary of the event: May 12, 2015 M 7.3 Nepal earthquake. The epicenter was 18km (11mi) SE of Kodari, Nepa, well to the east of the April 25, 2015 M 7.8 mainshock. The USGS has logged over 100 aftershocks of 3.0 or greater.
A US helicopter and 6 Marines are listed as missing after today’s event which killed dozens of people and destroyed many of the buildings that had been weakened by the April 25 event.
The monsoon season will start shortly bringing even more misery to a small nation already brought low.
May 12, 2015 Comments Off on No Rest For Nepal
