According to the American Religious Identification Survey, conducted in 2001 by The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, Colorado residents surveyed identified their religious identity as follows:
Christian Self-Identifications – 68%
*Roman Catholic – 23%
*Christian – 9%
*Baptist – 8%
*Methodist – 5%
*Lutheran – 5%
*Episcopalian – 3%
*Presbyterian – 3%
*Pentecostal – 2%
*Churches of Christ – 2%
*The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – 2%
*Protestant – 2%
*Jehovah's Witness – 1%
*Seventh-day Adventist – 1%
*Evangelical – 1%
*Non-denominational – 1%
Non-Religious/Atheist/Agnostic – 21%
Buddhist – 1%
Jewish – 1%
Other Religions – 3%
Refused To Answer – 6%
Notably, of the 68% who self-identified as some form of Christian, 23% identified as Roman Catholic, 18% identified with a historically mainline Christian identifier (Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Protestant), and the remaining 27% identified with a historically conservative/evangelical Christian identifier (Christian, Baptist, Pentecostal, Churches of Christ, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witness, Seventh-day Adventist, Evangelical, Non-denominational).
There are more people who expressly identify as Non-Religous/Atheist/Agnostic in Colorado than there are people who identify as mainline Christians.
Mainline Christian and non-Christian self-identifications make up about 44% of survey respondents, while Roman Catholics and conservative/evangelical self-identifications make up about 50% of self-identifications. It is safe to guess that at least some non-respondents are Roman Catholic or conservative/evangelical self-identifiers, so that pairing makes up a majority of people in the state to the extent that the survey is accurate.
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