Religion in Present America

After doing a little research about curretn day religion, I learned that religion plays a much more important role than I would have thought.  I learend many interesting facts: some that backup my knowledge of religion, and some that present new material.  Although I previously knew that Christianity is the biggest religion in the U.S., I didn't know which sects are bigger.  I learned that teh Evangelical sect has the largest percent of the U.S. population, totaling in at 26.3%.  Catholicism comes in second with 23.9% of the U.S.  And protestantism is third with 18.1%.  Although only three sects of Christianity, these three cover just over 2/3 of the population.  Many people from the Evangelical sect come from the midwest, while many people from the Ctholic sect come from the northeast.

Coming from a family who has grown and takes pride in being Jewish, I found it interesting that there are really a very little amount in the U.S.  The most heavily concentrated places with Jews are in New York, New Jersey and Florida.  In addition, Maryland has the fourth highest percent in the U.S.  44 other states, didn't even have .1% of the population as Jewish.

One more interesting fact that I learned is that there are many people that are unaffiliated, or atheist.  Alsmost throughout the entire U.S., the percent of unaffiliated people is distributed evenly.  It is interesting to see that many people don't have religous views.