Newsweek has an updated break down in the USa:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583
Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. Then came the point he could not get out of his mind: while the unaffiliated have historically been concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, the report said, "this pattern has now changed, and the Northeast emerged in 2008 as the new stronghold of the religiously unidentified." As Mohler saw it, the historic foundation of America's religious culture was cracking.
CLICK TO ENLARGE CHART:FD: I was watching Bill Maher's film Religilous at my Quaker Meeting on Sunday and noted that one of the people in the film mentions that the blood on the Shroud of Turin was female (XX), proof of the virgin birth to this person. This is just one of many things that people believe about their religions that Bill Maher examines in Religilous. For some reason, the DNA of the blood sample on the shroud has not been examined; so I owe you all an update... here is what I found...
Bill Maher Religilous Movie Trailer
Found a couple of new websites:
Scientists have failed to identify blood
on the Shroud of Turin. Not True.
Immunological, fluorescence and spectrographic tests, as well as Rh and ABO typing of blood antigens, reveal that the stains are human blood. Many of the bloodstains have the distinctive forensic signature of clotting with red corpuscles about the edge of a clot with a clear yellowish halo of serum. The heme was converted into its parent porphyrin, and the spectra examined. This too, revealed the fact that bloodstains are blood. Microchemical tests for proteins were positive in blood areas. Much of this work is published in peer reviewed scientific journals including Archeological Chemistry: Organic, Inorganic, and Biochemical Analysis (American Chemical Society), Applied Optics and the Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences Journal.
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