50% is astronomical compared to around here.
Both our Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition at present are
religious and that's often cited as a problem.
A year or so ago I was moved to note that the US had elected a black
guy as President which goes to show how far they'd go to avoid
electing a woman (yeah, fatuous, I know) but I'll be really impressed
when they elect an atheist. Don't think I'll live that long.
How many of that 10% would actually declare publically as atheist or
agnostic? Obviously many will claim to belong to a religion out of a
kind of laziness or nostalgia - it's a label for their culture - but
won't take the next step. Wicca is very popular among 'emo' girls and
some disillusioned older women. It seems like fun. And as I recall, so
many people in New Zealand delcared themselves to be Jeddi at the last
census that it had to be categorised as a religion.
Statistics - pshaw!
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 23/05/2010, at 8:09 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 5/22/2010 2:28 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>>> ...that atheists are pretty much the last group it's OK to
>>> discriminate against in the United god-bothering States. Care to
>>> comment?
>>>
>> Yep.... Nope.
>>
>
> I know the USA is seen as the country of the God Botherers. Still:
> --------------------------------------
> A USA Today/Gallup Poll in 2002-JAN showed that almost half of
> American
> adults appear to be alienated from organized religion. If current
> trends
> continue, most adults will not call themselves religious within a few
> years. Results include:
>
> About 50% consider themselves religious (down from 54% in 1999-DEC)
> About 33% consider themselves "/spiritual but not religious/" (up
> from 30%)
> About 10% regard themselves as neither spiritual or religious.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Polling data from the 2008 ARIS study:
>
> This study was essentially a repeat of the 2001 poll. It involved
> 54,461
> respondents.
>
> Between 1990 and 2008, an interval of 18 years, some of the more
> notable
> changes were.
> - The percentage of American adults [who] identify themselves
> with a
> specific religion dropped from 89.5% to 79.9%:
>
> - Americans who identify themselves as Christian dropped from 86.2
> to 76.0 -- a loss of 10.2 percentage points in 18 years -- about 0.6
> percentage points per year. A similar decline was observed in Canada.
>
> - Americans identifying themselves as Protestant dropped from 60.0
> to 50.9%.
>
> - Catholics declined from 26.2% to 25.1%
>
> - Religious Jews declined from1.8% to 1.2%.
>
> - Muslims increased from 0.3 to 0.6%.
>
> - The fastest growing religion (in terms of percentage) is Wicca
> --
> a Neopagan religion that is sometimes referred to as Witchcraft.
> - From 1990 to 2001: Numbers of adherents went from
> 8,000 to 134,000.
>
> - 15.0% (14.1%) do not follow any organized religion. There are
> more
> Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion
> than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans combined.
>
> Religiously Statistical Moose
>
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