"You don't have to be religious to take marriage seriously and there is no evidence that Non-religious people are any more prone to divorce than religious people. "
He wasn't comparing religious with non-religios, but those with 'genuine faith' with 'secular or casually religious'.
Your numbers don't differentiate between those who are serious and those who are casual in the religios beliefs.
I'm sure that's part of it, However if you notice there is a listing (4th down from the top)for people who just call themselves "Christian", It doesn't mean "Other Christian" because even though many smaller Christian groups are missing from the divorce statistics that are in the rest of the survey (There was probably too few of them surveyed to accurately explotate divorce statistics for the whole country)so when they say "Christian" they mean someone who is a Christian but doesn't follow any branch, In other words a CINO and their divorce rate is 9% right around everybody else's
It also doesn't make sense because if "Real" Christians have such a low divorce rate that would mean in order to come out about the same as the Nonreligious the "Causal" Christians would have to have divorce rates around 30-40%. So by that logic it's best to marry either a fundamentalist or an Atheist but not someone in-between.
The divorce rate is right around 10% for all groups with slight variation, There may be cultural, societal, financial, regional and even generational differences but it obvious from these results that religion has very little to do with the staying power of a marriage.
As for irreligious men, I see no purpose in marrying whatsoever – why put oneself at serious risk for a sacrament in which one does not believe?
What a stupid thing to say by the author in an otherwise good article. So if the author woke up tomorrow and thought there was no God would he just pack up and leave his wife? Yeah sounds like true love there!
Just because the author needs "The Fear of God" to keep him loving and not leaving his wife doesn't mean other people do, It's pretty sad this author who seems intelligent can't fathom people getting married and staying together because they actually love each other and want to spend the rest of the lives together.