[lbo-talk] Atheists identified as America's mo st distrustedminority

Sean Johnson Andrews inciteinsight at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 23 13:24:46 PST 2006



> You're probably thinking of CUNY's 2001 American Religious
> Identification Survey, which was a successor to their 1990 National Survey
> of Religious Identification. Here's a bit of the key findings
> <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris/key_findings.htm>:
> "[T]he greatest increase in absolute as well as in percentage terms has
> been among those adults who do not subscribe to any religious
> identification; their number has more than doubled from 14.3 million in
> 1990 to 29.4 million in 2001; their proportion has grown from just eight
> percent of the total in 1990 to over fourteen percent in 2001." But that
> includes people who identify as atheists (just 0.4% of the pop), agnostics
> (0.5%), humanists (about 0.02%), seculars (also around 0.02%) - and those
> who merely say "no religion," 13%.
>
> Doug

Thanks. I knew there was some larger number. I still wonder where the 3% came from.



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