The U.S. religious marketplace is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds.More than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all, the survey found. Factoring in moves from one stream or denomination of Protestantism to another, the number rises to 44 percent.
One in four adults ages 18 to 29 claim no affiliation with a religious institution.
The majority of the unaffiliated — 12 percent of the overall population — describe their religion as "nothing in particular," and about half of those say faith is at least somewhat important to them. Atheists or agnostics account for 4 percent of the total population.
The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey estimates the United States is 78 percent Christian and about to lose its status as a majority Protestant nation, at 51 percent and slipping.
The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey found. While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholic, fewer than one in four say they're Catholic today. That means roughly 10 percent of all Americans are ex-Catholics.
The share of the population that identifies as Catholic, however, has remained fairly stable in recent decades thanks to an influx of immigrant Catholics, mostly from Latin America. Nearly half of all Catholics under 30 are Hispanic, the survey found.
On the Protestant side, changes in affiliation are swelling the ranks of nondenominational churches, while Baptist and Methodist traditions are showing net losses.
# The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Survey on the Religious Landscape of the United States
# Download full report as a pdf file. Read in particular Chapter 2: Changes in Americans' Religious Affiliation
# Watch Pew Forum Director Luis Lugo on the key findings
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For those who are fascinated by the US religious marketplace, here are the results of another recent survey:
A recent study conducted by the University of Minnesota shows that atheists are more distrusted and despised than any other minority and that an atheist is the last person for whom Americans would vote in a presidential election. “Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians” all ranked higher than atheists in public acceptability. Furthermore, Americans are “least willing to allow their children to marry” atheists.
God, why do you make life so hard for us atheists!
第一次看導演李玉的作品，真要拍手叫好。
Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design, is a by-product of the 2004 MoMA exhibition 
● Bertrand Blier 《
1959年，年僅27的杜魯福推出首部作品The 400 Blows，一鳴驚人，與稍後高達（Jean-Luc Godard）的Breathless被譽為打響法國“新浪潮電影”的雙炮。
跟The 400 Blows不同，此後的四部電影，講的都是Antoine Doinel對愛慾的追求。更有趣的，是除了Antoine and Colette這部短片外，其他三部的女主角，都是由Claude Jade飾演的Christine。她由Antoine的女朋友，到成為他的妻子，最後跟他離婚。而在Stolen Kisses（即Christine首度出現的電影）拍攝期間，杜魯福戀上Claude Jade，二人並曾訂婚，但最終沒有結婚。
彌勒熊太年輕了，金燕玲“演激情的床戲”的時候，恐怕他還未來到人間。
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