"No Religion" Tops Identity Survey

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/13/us/no...rnd/index.html

Quote:

For the first time "No Religion" has topped a survey of Americans' religious identity, according to a new analysis by a political scientist. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey. Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, found that 23.1% of Americans now claim no religion.

All of the religions surveyed on the graph show a downward trend since 1990 while those who identify as no religion (atheists, agnostics and those who reject organism religion) have sharply increased.

Quote:

Whatever the causes, the non-religious represent a growing constituency. Yet this demographic is greatly underrepresented in Washington's halls of power. There is not a single open atheist amid the most diverse Congress in history, according to a Pew study.

i suspect that there are more than a few closet atheists in government though. The crowd I associate with at work and in the community is not exactly embracing those who reject religion. But I still get along.

Ranb

via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2Iioraw