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#1. the U.S. Census Bureau has not asked about religious affiliation since 1946

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#2. Two thousand eight was the last year on record in which Protestants as a whole - not just white Protestants - represented a majority of the country.10

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#3. it's no longer possible to believe that White Christian America sets the tone for the country's culture as a whole.

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#4. For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.

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#5. Today, former Catholics - most of them white and relatively young - make up 15 percent of the total adult population.45

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#6. Protestant-Catholic disputes have been more easily eradicated, while racial prejudice has the stubborn resilience of a weed that breaks off at the ground level, leaving the taproot intact.

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#7. Obama's election had challenged many whites' central cultural assumption - that the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) was the only authentic model of citizenship.

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#8. Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, resurrection by human power rather than divine spirit always produces a monstrosity. If

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#9. blunt conclusion was that "Christianity has an image problem" among American youth.48 Similarly,

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#10. Defining a mono-racial church as one that has more than 80 percent of its membership consisting of a single racial group, nearly nine in ten (86 percent) congregations, which account for 80 percent of churchgoers, remain essentially mono-racial.46

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#11. The racial perception gap highlights one of the most powerful - but also least discussed - divisions between Americans on the topic of race: the rift between the descendants of White Christian America and the rest of the country.

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#12. These stark divides prompt a simple but fundamental question: why can't White Christian America understand how African Americans feel about the black men who have died at the hands of white police officers? To

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#13. He concluded that while the Constitution protected freedom of religious belief, the same privilege did not necessarily extend to freedom of religious action.

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#14. Christians began to slip in the late 1990s, expanding the tent to include white Catholics helped perpetuate the illusion that White Christian America was still the country's dominant religious culture. But

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