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Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate,


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PinGUYFeb 25, 4:12pm
More than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or no religion, a new survey of religious affiliation says.

nytimes.com/2008/02/25/us/25cnd-religion.html [nytimes.com/2008/02/25/us/25cnd-religion.html]
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JungFeb 25, 5:10pm

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kapkaFeb 25, 6:57pm
2. Forgetting about faith, would be excellent. :)

JRyanStevensFeb 25, 7:33pm
1. Thank God! Spread the Good News!

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AnswerManFeb 27, 10:51am
I saw on a youtube video that 20% of the world population are non-religious. anyone got stats on global atheist census?

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MJ-BrutusFeb 27, 11:30am
5: In 2005 16% of world population were "non-religious", out of which 50% were theistic. IOW, 8% of the world were non-religious, non-theistic as of 2-3 years ago.

From the link above:
    "People who specify atheism as their religious preference actually make up less than one-half of one percent of the population in many countries where much large numbers claim no religious preference, such as the United States (13.2% nonreligious according to ARIS study of 2001) and Australia (15% nonreligious)."

This means, that as of 7 years ago among the 13% in the USA who stated that they were non-religious, only about .5% stated positively that they were atheists... (Since the 2001 USA population was around 280 million, that means that around 1.4 million Americans described themselves then as atheists. That's less than half the total number of atheists in Scandinavia, which has a total population of around 19 million and over 3 million atheists [2005 figures]).


Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate,

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