Discovery :: 32 :: Surveys

I read this article on MSNBC.

Survey: Americans switch faiths often

I’m never quite sure what to think of surveys.

35,000 people surveyed.

But the article kept referring to America and Americans…

But there is more than 35,000 people in Spokane and how many in the U.S.?

So that part of surveys always rubs me the wrong way.

Some of the stuff in the article was interesting.

Some of was not.

I think the thing that annoyed me the most about the article is the title.

How can you say Americans are switching faiths and then talk about how all they are doing is changing denominations?

And I’m tired of people considering Catholicism something different than Christianity or at least making it sound like it is (whether intentionally or not).

Catholics and Protestants and the Orthodox are all Christians.

So I didn’t really like the article.

I know people are moving around within Christianity.

I have myself.

I wouldn’t call it ‘Religion a la carte.’

Especially because it involves one religion.

I don’t see it as a la carte, instead I see it more as burning the cart down.

I am part of one holy catholic and apostolic church.

And I’m free to be a part of what ever part of it I like. And to learn from what ever part I want.

I know I should have some stability and should be a part of a community, which I am, but don’t stick me in some box any smaller than the largeness of Christianity.

I don’t care what denomination I am a part of anymore.

So I don’t see why the surveyors do.

Tags: Christ, Christian, Christianity, denominations, Surveys