[OC] If American Religion was 100 people.

Makes u realise how many evangelicals there are in the us

I hate these so much. Google “percentages” people!

So each box is 1% of the population. The title would make more sense if you used 100 icons of people to represent this.

Why is it wrapping right to left? Also does Other Christian = Protestant? What on earth is Mainline? I get the feeling from the sizes, Protestant is rolled into Evangelical. My understanding is that about half of Protestants are Evangelical so its the only way the graph makes sense.

“Black Protestantism” isn’t a separate religion, methinks. That’s a weird racial grouping in what is supposed to be a religious breakdown.

There being that many evangelicals is a surprise to me. Explains a lot, actually.

Not beautiful, sorry.

No apparent effort was put into arranging the groups, titles, or colors in a way that makes the representation easier to understand. For example:

* The “agnostic” group is broken across two rows, and arranged with one block being non-contiguous with the other five. No reason to do that.
* “Other Christian” as a title is stuck between “Buddhist” and “Black Protestant” in labels, and between “Black Protestant” and “LDS” in the figure–why not actually put “Other Christian” directly after all the other Christian sects?
* Colors appear to be mostly random, and do not seem to reflect natural or logical categories. (Atheist, Hindu, and Buddhist are all shades of orange. Some Christians are green, some are purple–Catholics and Evangelicals are mildly different shades of lilac.)

And if I really wanted to be picky, I’d note that the title talks about the data being represented by “100 People”, but the figure is just squares–yes, we know how percentages work.

Wow this sucks. The colors are hard to tell apart. There’s no symbols to help people match up the key. The key is all over the place. Wow like you couldn’t try harder to make this worse.

for so many divisions idk if a “100 person graphic” is the best to do it..

Lots of folks in here asking about “Mainline”

Mainline Protestants are mostly made up of the “seven sisters of mainline Protestantism”, the United Methodist Church (UMC), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA), American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA), United Church of Christ (UCC), and Disciples of Christ.

These churches tend to be much more progressive, meaning women and LGBTQ+ folks are welcomed and ordained as pastors as well. Obviously varies from congregation to congregation, but they tend to be very community oriented, ecumenical (partnering with other denominations), and open to multi-faith events. They tend to not be the fire and brimstone type churches and are much less “evangelical” in the sense of they don’t typically have the fog machines and rock bands, and they tend to not be as heavily invested in trying to convert people, but rather focusing on serving the community.

As always, each individual congregation will vary and some will be more conservative than others, but their denominational bylaws tend to be very open

Edit: for a recent example, the Bishop that asked Trump to have empathy towards immigrants after his inauguration, Mariann Budde, is an Episcopalian, which is Mainline.

I shouldn’t be, but I am a little surprised by how many people identify as evangelical vs “mainline.”

I always thought ’Black Protestants’ was just an insult that my Irish Catholic grandparents used to refer to non-Catholic Christians

I had no idea how many evangelicals there were until they started fucking the rest of us

Im sorry but this is not beautiful why do the groupings have to be in order of left to right by row? Its not a paragraph and splits a lot of groups uneccessarily