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According to a 2012 Pew Report on the "Nones", 19.6% of the population identified as "no religion", atheists made up 2.4% and agnostics made up 3.3% of the US population. [ 50 ] The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4 ...
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.
Evolutionary biologist, son of Sloan Wilson, proponent of multilevel selection theory and author of several popular books on evolution. I don't believe in God. I tell people I'm an atheist, but a nice atheist. [171] Sherwin Wine: 1928–2007 Philosopher Founder of the non-theistic Society for Humanistic Judaism, who has also called himself an ...
2. Non-Religious Groups Would Have More of a Voice. Religious and non-religious groups are due the same protections, and in the past few years, the number of Americans in that latter group has ...
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.
High rates of atheism have been found among self-identified Christians in the United States. Out of all Americans who do not believe in God, 5% identified as Catholic while 9% identified as Protestant and other Christian according to the 2007 Pew Religious Landscape survey. [5]
Based on their stated beliefs rather than their religious identification in 2008, 70% of Americans believe in a personal God, roughly 12% of Americans are atheist (no God) or agnostic (unknowable or unsure), and another 12% are deistic (a higher power but no personal God). America's religious geography has been transformed since 1990.
Phil Zuckerman's analysis finds differing levels of atheists and agnostics in countries around the world [17]. Phil Zuckerman is the author of seven books, including The Nonreligious [18], co-authored with Luke Galen and Frank Pasquale; Living the Secular Life; [19] Faith No More; [20] Society without God; [21] Invitation to the Sociology of Religion; [22] What it Means to be Moral; [23] and ...