When Americans are asked to check a box indicating their religious affiliation, 28% now check ‘none.’

A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated – a group comprised of atheists, agnostic and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” – is now the largest cohort in the U.S. They’re more prevalent among American adults than Catholics (23%) or evangelical Protestants (24%).

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“We know politically for example,” [Gregory Smith at Pew] says, “that religious Nones are very distinctive. They are among the most strongly and consistently liberal and Democratic constituencies in the United States.”

  • A Phlaming Phoenix@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    What exactly is reasonable about supernatural beliefs? The reason they disagree is because religious ideas consist of made up nonsense. This naturally leads to fracturing because instead of following observable, repeatable facts to their logical conclusion, religions make up anything they want and then stand by it regardless of what observational evidence tells us. The Hubble space telescope didn’t exactly fail when it smashed into the firmament, you know.

    Anything can be true when all you need to be convinced that it’s true is faith.

    • skydivekingair@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’m going off memory here but if it’s correct they held a live and let live dogma. No convert or kill mentality, do good above all else etc.