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Ryan Burge

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544 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

And listen, a lot of that kind of leans toward the female side, you know, like a lot of Wiccans or females.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

And guess who the number one buyer of books are?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

It's women.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

It's very small and it's very loud.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

So they're sort of overrepresented on places like social media.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

So in our minds, we make it a lot bigger.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

The share of Americans who are not Christian and are not none is probably 7% of the country right now.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

The share of Americans who are Latter-day Saint in this country is 1%.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

I mean, we take these small religious groups and sort of blow them up in our minds and act like they're much bigger because Christianity is the norm.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

We're just used to what that is.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

Even today, 60% of Americans are Christians.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

For every one Muslim in America, there are 60 Christians.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

Like, we've got to be clear about how the size of these groups.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

Not saying that Muslims don't matter or Latter-day Saints don't matter.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

It's just important to know in the relative context of macro religion in America, there are a rounding error compared to Christianity.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

So I took over that church and I was 24 years old.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

So you had gone to seminary?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
America’s Very Weird Religious Future

We need no training.