Also noticeable is the strong growth of non-Christian groups, which again is explained mainly by immigration.
Of the non-Christian religions, the biggest is Buddhism (2.5% of the population), Islam (2.2%) and Hinduism (1.3%).
George Washington himself might be defined as no more than a deist (though he would have objected strongly had anyone called him a non-Christian).
Prior to the English Reformation, would-be borrowers had had to turn to the much smaller universe of non-Christian (usually Jewish) money lenders.
This train of logic, spanning centuries, lights a path that any student of economic development Christian, non-Christian, believer, non-believer can follow and reconcile the needs of economic development and the call to dominion.
Lorraine Barrett, a former Welsh assembly member who now works as a humanist celebrant, said it was interesting that people had the confidence to declare themselves of no religion or non-Christian.
The court found that religious institutions in the town of just under 100, 000 people are primarily Christian, and even Galloway and Stephens testified they knew of no non-Christian places of worship there.
The guide did not include non-Christian denominations, however.
Even non-Christian founders thought religion essential.
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Focusing on early 20th-century Britain, he describes in scholarly detail different strategies for harmonising faith and knowledge: the sought-after alliance between liberal theologians in the Church of England and religious-minded scientists, and the rather different efforts of science-minded writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw to foster a modern, non-Christian religion.
There was a time when Christians believed in the Inquisition, in killing Christian non-conformists, Muslims and Jews.
They include Jewish anti-Israel groups as well as Christian, Islamic and non-religious anti-Israel groups.
The problem starts with the textbooks supplied by the government of Saudi Arabia which have repeatedly been found to be anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and inciting of hatred against non-Muslims more generally.
Those things are at their mildest in Matt Lane, the librarian and archivist of the title: benign high-priest of literary hush, untouched by history (too late for the first world war and a non-combatant in the second), unproblematically Christian.
Its new plan to expand its appeal beyond its own Shia people to Sunni Muslims and Christian Lebanese depends on it forming a non-sectarian resistance group.
Its author, Ruth Harris, is not a devout Christian but, like Ms Medwick, a non-observant Jew.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit legal foundation, has filed lawsuits on behalf of two Christian colleges.
If you take no stock in the main Christian festival of Easter, or if you are a non-Jew who has no interest in atoning in the fall, you have an all-American fighting chance of being able to ignore these events, or of being only briefly subjected to parking restrictions in Manhattan.
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Her PDI-P, an offshoot of a union between Christian and secular nationalist groups, is seen as dominated by non-Muslims.
Under a 2005 peace deal between the mainly Muslim north and the largely Christian south, Sharia law is not supposed to be applied to non-Muslims living in the capital.
This already includes non-secular institutions such as longstanding rabbinical tribunals in Britain and many other countries, or Christian mediation services in North America.
We have seen young and old, rich and poor, Muslim and Christian join together, and earn the respect of the world through their non-violent calls for change.
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