Commissioning your own survey is quite an undertaking. Thanks for taking on this work. The thing I found most sad is that in the "Beliefs by Religious Affiliation" question, Catholics are less believing in core Christian beliefs than other Christians, especially the prayer question that really jumped out to me. I found that a stark juxtaposition to the next survey question about church attendance, where Catholics are equal or even slightly more likely to go to church than other Christians. I don't think there's a good way to draw a single conclusion from comparing these two questions, because many of those non-believers also probably don't go to church, but I just found that interesting.
If only you would’ve published this before the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time so I could’ve swiped the Greatest Commandment reference for a homily. I suppose everyone, even Pillar people, have work to do in conforming their lives to the liturgy.
I look forward to the forthcoming analysis of this data.
A caveat about the trends across generations (for example, the idea that younger generations are less religious): For many people, religious affiliation, belief and practice grow over time. My own anecdote is that in my twenties I would have checked all the Agnostic boxes; today in my seventies, I would check all the seriously Catholic boxes.
Commissioning your own survey is quite an undertaking. Thanks for taking on this work. The thing I found most sad is that in the "Beliefs by Religious Affiliation" question, Catholics are less believing in core Christian beliefs than other Christians, especially the prayer question that really jumped out to me. I found that a stark juxtaposition to the next survey question about church attendance, where Catholics are equal or even slightly more likely to go to church than other Christians. I don't think there's a good way to draw a single conclusion from comparing these two questions, because many of those non-believers also probably don't go to church, but I just found that interesting.
If only you would’ve published this before the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time so I could’ve swiped the Greatest Commandment reference for a homily. I suppose everyone, even Pillar people, have work to do in conforming their lives to the liturgy.
I look forward to the forthcoming analysis of this data.
Be great if there was a clean way to print this out and share with others?
This survey is worth its weight in gold! Thanks for taking the initiative and for the analyses that are sure to follow.
This is quite the undertaking. Thank you for all this work.
This is some good stuff that I will need to read a couple times to absorb the entirety of this! Good work Brendan, and the rest of the Pillar team.
This is so cool. Way to go, the Pillar.
A caveat about the trends across generations (for example, the idea that younger generations are less religious): For many people, religious affiliation, belief and practice grow over time. My own anecdote is that in my twenties I would have checked all the Agnostic boxes; today in my seventies, I would check all the seriously Catholic boxes.