U.S. Religious Landscape Survey -- May 26, 2009

Major Religious Traditions in the U.S.

An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details statistics on religion in America and explores the shifts taking place in the U.S. religious landscape. Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans age 18 and older, the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey finds that religious affiliation in the U.S. is both very diverse and extremely fluid.



More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion - or no religion at all. If change in affiliation from one type of Protestantism to another is included, 44% of adults have either switched religious affiliation, moved from being unaffiliated with any religion to being affiliated with a particular faith, or dropped any connection to a specific religious tradition altogether.

http://religions.pewforum.org/reports">Much more at this Satanic link.

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0.7% Buddhist
1.6% Atheist
6.3% Secular Unaffiliated
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8.6% Godless

They might say a prayer just in case.
So, they aren't godless.

Could they be just vague "something out there but go to church cos it's good for the kids" types?

I keep hearing that the USA is a "Judeo-Christian nation", but with a little more push from the International Atheist Conspiracy perhaps we can change that to Atheo-Christian. The report does say that young people are substantially more likely than older people to be unaffiliated, so if we keep up our evil recruitment of youngsters, there's hope for the future, provided we don't eat too many of them.

From the summary:

Even when you take self-identified atheists with all the confusion and stigma the word generates, we are equal to Jews and more than Muslims in number.

Every question of religion or its influence on society is sure to include respectful and even pandering attention to those two minorities, but always ignores the nonbelievers.

Why? It's not some deep conspiracy or even assumptive theism. It's because atheists and nonbelievers don;t organize, get off their ass and make sure their numbers are heard when they are pissed on like Jews and Muslims do. Too many of us hide behind smug rationalizations about herding cats or not wanting to be an organized group because we're too cool and ruggedly individual.