USA Today: Christians question divorce rates of faithful
It's been proclaimed from pulpits and blogs for years — Christians divorce as much as everyone else in America. …
When Wright examined the statistics on evangelicals, he found worship attendance has a big influence on the numbers. Six in 10 evangelicals who never attend had been divorced or separated, compared to just 38% of weekly attendees. …
Wilcox's analysis of the National Survey of Families and Households has found that Americans who attend religious services several times a month were about 35% less likely to divorce than those with no religious affiliation.
Nominal conservative Protestants, on the other hand, were 20% more likely to divorce than the religiously unaffiliated. ….
I reviewed Wright's book last summer. It is really good stuff. You can find it at Amazon: Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You've Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media
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