Civil religion is usually practiced by political leaders who are laypeople and whose leadership is not specifically spiritual. Various Neopagan movements are active in Ireland, especially Wicca, Neo-druidry and Celtic Polytheism. While more than one-third of Americans under the age of 30 are religiously unaffiliated (36%), that proportion drops to one in four (25%) among those ages 30-49, to 18% among those ages 50-64, and to only 14% among those ages 65 and older. Among those ages 30-49, 41% are white Christian, as are half of those ages 50-64 (50%) and a majority of Americans 65 and older (59%). These increases are offset by sharp declines in the proportion of religiously unaffiliated Americans in each age group. Majorities of Hindu (67%), Unitarian Universalist (59%), and Jewish (58%) Americans have four-year college degrees or higher. Four in ten or more Orthodox Christians (48%), white Catholics (42%), and Latter-day Saints (40%) also have at least a four-year college degree.

More than one-third of Muslims (39%), white mainline Protestants (37%), Buddhists (37%), and the religiously unaffiliated (36%) have at least a four-year college degree. Black Protestants and white mainline Protestants have a median age of 50. All other groups have median ages below 50: Jehovah’s Witnesses (49), Jewish Americans (48), Latter-day Saints (47), Orthodox Christians (42), Hispanic Catholics (42), Hispanic Protestants (39), religiously unaffiliated people (38), Buddhists (36), Hindus (36), and Muslims (33). In the youngest groups, one-third of Hindu (33%) and Buddhist (34%) Americans and 42% of Muslim Americans are in the 18-29 age category. Muslims are found in every province of China, but they constitute a majority only in Xinjiang, and a large amount of the population in Ningxia and Qinghai. The majority of violent anti-abortion extremist ideology is based on Christian religious beliefs and use of Biblical scripture. And militia extremists and groups use religious concepts and scripture to defy the government, break laws, and stockpile food, ammunition and weapons to hasten or await the end of the world.

Religious concepts – such as Christian end times prophecy, millennialism and the belief that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent – play a vital role in the recruitment, radicalization and mobilization of violent right-wing extremists and their illegal activities in the United States. Faith is a fundamental part of life, and leaning on faith in difficult situations can help us overcome even the most trying times in life. Another effect of the Japanese colonisation on religious life in Taiwan was due to the modernisation of infrastructures. The period since has seen a secularisation of Japanese society almost as dramatic as the economic miracle which saw Japan’s post-war economy go into overdrive. The median age of white mainline Protestants and Jewish Americans has decreased over the same period. 4) Although not recognized to the same degree as the other findings here, most scholars seem to hold that the tomb in which Jesus was buried was found empty just a few days later. A review of violent anti-abortion extremist propaganda online is filled with Biblical references to God and Jesus Christ.

Anti-abortion extremists also equate the practice of abortion to a “silent holocaust.” Some anti-abortion extremists go as far as claiming abortion providers are actually “serial killers” and worthy of death. For this reason, some equate abortion to murder. The AOG also uses the symbol of a white rose; a reference to the White Rose Banquet, an annual anti-abortion extremist event organized by convicted abortion clinic arsonist Michael Bray. The ultimate goal of anti-abortion extremists is to rid the country of the practice of abortion and those who perform and assist in its practice. White evangelical Protestants are the oldest religious group in the U.S., with a median age of 56, compared to the median age in the country of 47. White Catholics and Unitarian Universalists have median ages of 54 and 53 years old, respectively. On the Shia side there have also been influxes of fighters from Shia-majority country Iraq, fighting for the regime. There are unspoken rules? But before Michaelangelo and Mimar Sinan there was Imhotep, who lived who lived sometime between 2667 B.C.E. Constitutional rights. They also serve as radicalization and recruitment nodes to boost the ranks of white supremacists, militia extremists, sovereign citizens, and other radical anti-government adherents who view the government’s response to these standoffs as tyrannical and overreaching.