More than 1 in 4 American adults identify as “religious nones,” meaning they consider themselves to be “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular,” according to a report from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday.

According to the new set of data, 28% of Americans classify themselves as “nones,” 17% of whom identify as atheist, 20% as agnostic and 63% as “nothing in particular.” Most “nones” said they were raised to be religious, and the majority were raised in Christian households.

The data was mostly based on a Pew Research Center survey of 11,201 respondents that was conducted over the course of a week last summer. The report also drew on a few other surveys conducted in recent years and on Pew’s National Public Opinion Reference Surveys.

“When asked directly why they are not religious, two-thirds of ‘nones’ say they question a lot of religious teachings or don’t believe in God,” the report said.

  • butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The Church has been left in the hands of its lowest common denominator in the west, and they’ve grabbed onto the power that offers with every intention to abuse the shit out of it

    It has ALWAYS been this way. Difference is the freedom of choice. Of course these fukn assholes would love to have attendance, and especially tithing, legally compulsory. Their sociopathic brains can’t appreciate the supreme way that could backfire. Thankfully people with 100+ IQs can abstain and ignore, for now.

    Anyway, guys like you mentioned are fukn grifters and clowns. Stupid people will always be used by evil people to accomplish their goals. If it wasn’t religion, it would be something else that offers the sheep easy answers with minimal cognitive commitment.

    Christianity is dying at warp speed, being abandoned by the drones in favor of cryptofascism and stupidity-based nationalism. The evangelicals themselves are redefining the doctrines to include violent extremist ideology.

    Donny easily meets the biblical Antichrist criteria without any use of imagination, and yet he is fully embraced by the holy moron community. Their principles have been fully compromised.