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According to the 2014 General Sociological Survey, the number of atheists and agnostics in the U.S. grew over the previous 23 years. In 1991, only 2% identified as atheist, and 4% identified as agnostic; while in 2014, 3.1% identified as atheists, and 5% identified as agnostics.
1. Separation of Church and State. Some religious Americans are wary of the separation of church and state because they view the church as an entity requiring governmental protection from the secular.
In the United States, between 6% and 11% of the population demonstrated nonreligious attitudes and naturalistic worldviews, namely atheists or agnostics. [2]: 1 [1]: 18 [3] [4] 24% of people who do not believe in God or a universal spirit call themselves atheists. [5]
United States House of Representative (D-CA), the first openly atheist member of Congress. Stark called himself "a Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being" and has been identified as an atheist. [137] Wayne Static: 1965–2014 Musician Frontman for Industrial Metal band Static-X
All the Questions You Ever Wanted to Ask American Atheists With All the Answers. American Atheist Press. ISBN 978-0910309035. O'Hair, Madalyn Murray (1972). What on Earth Is an Atheist!. American Atheist Press. ISBN 978-1578849185. O'Hair, Madalyn Murray (1991). Why I Am an Atheist: Including a History of Materialism. American Atheist Press.
While no president has ever openly identified as an atheist, Thomas Jefferson, [2] Abraham Lincoln, [3] [4] and William Howard Taft [5] were speculated to be atheists by their opponents during political campaigns; in addition, a survey during the presidency of Donald Trump showed that 63% of Americans did not believe he was religious, despite ...
Religion in the United States is both widespread and diverse, with higher reported levels of belief than other wealthy Western nations. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Polls indicate that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe in a higher power (2021), [ 5 ] engage in spiritual practices (2022), [ 6 ] and consider themselves religious or spiritual (2017).
Of the developed nations, people in the United States were "most sure" of the existence of God or a higher power (2% atheist, 4% agnostic), while France had the most skeptics (19% atheist, 16% agnostic). On the religion question, South Korea had the greatest percentage without a religion (41%) while Italy had the smallest (5%). [57]