Religion
The religious affiliations of the people of Maine are shown below:
- Christian – 82%
- Protestant – 45%
- Baptist (mostly American Baptist) – 16%
- Methodist (mostly United Methodist Church with 31,689 members) – 9%
- Episcopal – 8%
- United Church of Christ (29,122 members) / Congregational – 8%
- Pentecostal – 6%
- Lutheran – 3%
- Other Protestant or general Protestant – 10%
- Roman Catholic (283,024 members) – 37%
- Other Christian – 1%
- Protestant – 45%
- Other religions – 1%
- Non-religious – 17%
In 2010, a study said Maine was the least religious state in the United States.
Read more about this topic: Geography Of Maine, Demographics
Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)