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Atheists & Agnostics

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2015, 08:20 AM Mar 2015

Religion is dying in the USA [View all]

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/

A Pew research study finds that 22% of Americans, especially younger adults, now claim no official religious beliefs, the second largest group in the country, after Protestsnts (48%).

This is great news. Of course, the media darlings who love them a huckster or a Palin, or any president who closes any speech with "God bless America," might be taken aback by this. Too bad.

This shows that there still is hope for the country's future.

I believe

That I will celebrate!

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Religion is dying in the USA [View all] ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2015 OP

Maybe legit brands of religion, but the crazies abound and are breeding like cane toads. n/t woodsprite Mar 2015 #1

With worse language skills and understanding. ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2015 #2

I rec'ed this out of a desperate hope that it's correct, mountain grammy Mar 2015 #3

and Pat Robertson is helping it along RussBLib Mar 2015 #4

You are already a slave to many vegetables. AlbertCat Mar 2015 #7

This is from 2012 ... Hopefully the numbers are even a bit better now. Arugula Latte Mar 2015 #5

I read somewhere that a follow up by Pew shows the trend accelerating, but ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2015 #6

The problem is that they'll get sucked back in when they have kids Warpy Mar 2015 #8

Our religionists are quick to point out that "no official religion" Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #9