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Non-believing on the Rise in America
The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey was released last week and the big news story is the increase in the percentage of Americans who claim no religion. These "nones" made up 8.2 percent of the population in 1990, 14.2 percent in 2001, and 15 percent in 2008. You can see a state-by-state..
03.18.09
So is this the dawning of a new age of rationalism and tolerance in America? A harbinger of the Apocaypse?Will it correspond to changing attitudes towards issues like abortion and stem cell research?Are people coming up with non-religious moral frameworks on their own (difficulty: high) and, if not, is humanity better off just accepting the pre-packaged commandments of scripture?Thanks Neighborhoodist. Image from Flickr user Napalm filled tires.