What's your religion? In US, a common reply now is "None"

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. "unaffliated" covers a vast range, as this religious person (who denies she is religious) shows

"embracing a spiritual but not religious life" - but " she blends rituals at an altar, chanting Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu mantras and paying homage to her ancestors as she meditates and prays". I mean, that's religion. It's not communal religion, but those are religious rituals, from many sources. She's more religious than most members of organised religions.

In fact, the average "religiously unaffiliated" American is more religious, in many respects, than the average Western European Christian. The article points to this 2018 survey:

In fact, by several measures of religious commitment, religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. are as religious as – or in some cases even more religious than – Christians throughout Western European countries. For example, while 20% of U.S. “nones” pray daily, only 6% of Christians in the UK do so. And religiously unaffiliated Americans are about twice as likely as German Christians to believe in God with absolute certainty (27% vs. 12%).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/u-s-adults-are-more-religious-than-western-europeans/

W Euro Christians and US unaffiliated are about matched on "religion is very important in their lives". More US religiously unaffiliated pray daily than W Euro Christians. More are certain that God exists. W Euro Christians just go to church more often.