Posted on 10/09/2012 10:17:04 AM PDT by Joseph Harrolds
The number of unaffiliated is now at its highest point ever and has increased 5% in the past five years,the Pew/PBS poll found.
More Americans than ever say they dont identify with an organized religion a trend that is growing among all segments of the population, a poll released Tuesday found.
One in five American adults, or 19.6% of the population, are now religiously unaffiliated, a Pew Center/PBS survey finds. Atheists and agnostics now make up about 6% of the U.S. population.
The number of unaffiliated is now at its highest point ever and has increased 5% in the past five years,the poll found.
Further, the 46 million Americans who no longer identify with a religion arent looking to join a different one.
Overwhelmingly, they [the non-affiliated] think that religious organizations are too concerned with money and power, too focused on rules and too involved in politics, the survey said.
But a vast majority of those who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated, 68%, still believe in God, the Pew poll found.
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the one in five
What does not being “affiliated” have to do with not being a Christian, or a “Marxist” to quote you?
I understand now, I was thinking they meant non-affiliated with a denomination.
After reading through the Pew report, I am still a little confused about what they are claiming here.
I still doubt that 20% of Americans would directly deny that they are Christian if it was clearly put to them, 68% of them still believe in God, for instance.
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