Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show. The phone number,

if you'd like to be a part of the program, 877-973-7-4-25. Those of you who are on the lines,

well, be patient with me. I will get to you, but I got, I was deciding whether or not, when I wanted to do this.

So, you know, if you get my substack, if you text the word show to 33777, you can get the

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And on Sundays, normally I will do a monologue or two during the week, and it has theological overtones, and we've been

sending it out on Sundays as a Sunday sermon, so to speak, having been in seminary and the

like, occasionally I can get, I know some of you say I get preachy, but occasionally it is

worthwhile.

And I saw some data and I want to actually dive into this data.

The source is from Ryan Berg.

He is a Baptist preacher of the American Baptist denomination. He's also a professor at Eastern Illinois University. He does some religious survey. There's a survey of nuns out.

Now, who are the nuns? The nuns, I'm not talking N-U-N-S, I'm talking N-O-N-E-S.

The nuns are the atheists, the new atheists. And there's a question out there. where do the nuns come from?

Where do the people who fall into atheism come from?

And this is a tracking survey that's been going on since 1973 to 2018.

And the question asked is, which religion were you raised in?

You identify now as an atheist.

Which religion were you raised in?

There has been a rise of the nuns.

We are a post-Christian society.

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