The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than the prior Congress. […] But by far the largest difference between the U.S. public and Congress is in the share who are unaffiliated with a religious group. In the […]
There’s (Officially) Not a Single Open Atheist in the New Congress Read More »
Washington, DC — The Secular Coalition for America released a statement following the 2018 midterm elections. Statement by Larry T. Decker, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America “Yesterday millions of nonreligious voters across the country made their voices heard at the ballot box and sent a powerful message to lawmakers, politicians, and pundits
Secular Voters Shake Up Midterm Elections Read More »
How many non-religious candidates are on ballots all across the country on Tuesday? With tremendous help from the Freethought Equality Fund PAC and the Center for Freethought Equality — both of which are affiliated with the American Humanist Association — we now have an answer to that question. There are 140 nonreligious candidates vying for
Here Are All the Non-Religious Candidates Running for State and Federal Office Read More »
In August of 2018, the Pew Research Center released a study on American religious attitudes, dividing all Americans into seven categories. Here are the results of the study that pertain to the nonreligious community. 29% of Americans are nonreligious. From here, Pew sorts them into two groups: The “Solidly Secular” make up 17% of all Americans.
Pew Research Center’s Religious Typography Read More »
Why are you an atheist or agnostic? The obvious answer might be because you don’t believe in God. Or maybe you don’t think anyone can know if God exists. Becka A. Alper of the Pew Research Center, using data obtained late last year, just published an analysis looking specifically at the reasons “Nones” gave for why they don’t belong
Why Are Many Americans Abandoning Religion? A Lot of the Credit Goes to Pastors Read More »
It’s relatively well-known that the portion of the U.S. population with no religious affiliation has been steadily increasing recently. And for those paying attention to research, it’s also been obvious for a while that conservative evangelicals were beginning to lose “market share” after years of mocking their mainline Protestant cousins of “dying” because of insufficiently rigorous theology and moral
Americans With No Religion Greatly Outnumber White Evangelicals Read More »
Do you wonder why the proportion of Americans declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion has skyrocketed in recent decades? This trend is especially pronounced among adults under 30, roughly 40 percent of whom claim no connection to a religious congregation or tradition and have joined the ranks of those the pollsters call the “nones.” To understand how so
No wonder there’s an exodus from religion Read More »
In recent years much has been written about the rise of the “nones”—people who check the box for “none” on surveys of religious affiliation. A 2013 Harris Poll of 2,250 American adults, for example, found that 23 percent of all Americans have forsaken religion altogether. A 2015 Pew Research Center poll reported that 34 to
The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising Read More »
PRRI and MTV recently released a study on the political and social views of more than 2,000 Americans ages 15 to 24, which includes younger Millennials and older members of Generation Z. “Diversity, Division, Discrimination: The State of Young America” suggests that as a whole, young Americans are more progressive than older ones, but that religion, race,
New study of Millennials and GenZ points to a “massive religious realignment” in America Read More »
It may come as no surprise that the influence of Christianity in the United States is waning. Rates of church attendance, religious affiliation, belief in God, prayer and Bible-reading have been dropping for decades. Americans’ beliefs are becoming more post-Christian and, concurrently, religious identity is changing. Enter Generation Z: Born between 1999 and 2015, they
Atheism Doubles Among Generation Z Read More »
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