SweetReason
October 23, 2006, 05:43 PM
A lot of conversations about how people became atheists, humanists, freethinkers, or whatever seem to assume that either a person was raised in the nonreligious family, or they were raised by a strongly, conservatively religious family, and they are reacting against that. Sometimes I make that assumption myself! But recently I got some interesting information by surveying the readers of my column. Okay, it's a small sample, but it's food for thought, and I'm trying to get a bigger sample by polling you.
In my survey, 15.9% said they came from a nonreligious background, 23.2% said they came from a conservative religious background, and 37.8% said they came from a liberal or moderate religious background.
In this poll, I'm going to give a couple more options, and post in a couple of different forums to try to reduce sampling bias. Let's see what we learn, and thanks for helping!
In my survey, 15.9% said they came from a nonreligious background, 23.2% said they came from a conservative religious background, and 37.8% said they came from a liberal or moderate religious background.
In this poll, I'm going to give a couple more options, and post in a couple of different forums to try to reduce sampling bias. Let's see what we learn, and thanks for helping!