"Kudos to the Buddhists and the Jews for keeping pace (almost) with the freethinkers."
I wonder if the Buddhists here at Asian people or Westerners who have adopted Buddhism. If it the latter, then demographically, Americans who become Buddhist tend to be well-educated, white, middle class (the same demographic applies to Neopagans). The high placement of Jews also doesn't suprise me given that historically Jews have placed a higher emphasis on education and literacy than the Christians and Muslims that they lived among. As I remeber, too, Jews, tend to make up a dispropotionately large percentage of Americans who become Buddhists (insert Jewbu jokes here :).
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Date: 2010-Sep-15, Wednesday 03:59 pm (UTC)I wonder if the Buddhists here at Asian people or Westerners who have adopted Buddhism. If it the latter, then demographically, Americans who become Buddhist tend to be well-educated, white, middle class (the same demographic applies to Neopagans). The high placement of Jews also doesn't suprise me given that historically Jews have placed a higher emphasis on education and literacy than the Christians and Muslims that they lived among. As I remeber, too, Jews, tend to make up a dispropotionately large percentage of Americans who become Buddhists (insert Jewbu jokes here :).