More than 1 in 4 American adults identify as “religious nones,” meaning they consider themselves to be “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular,” according to a report from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday.
According to the new set of data, 28% of Americans classify themselves as “nones,” 17% of whom identify as atheist, 20% as agnostic and 63% as “nothing in particular.” Most “nones” said they were raised to be religious, and the majority were raised in Christian households.
The data was mostly based on a Pew Research Center survey of 11,201 respondents that was conducted over the course of a week last summer. The report also drew on a few other surveys conducted in recent years and on Pew’s National Public Opinion Reference Surveys.
“When asked directly why they are not religious, two-thirds of ‘nones’ say they question a lot of religious teachings or don’t believe in God,” the report said.
Still too little of a percentage, in a country of religious estremists
Alternate title: “3/4s of grown-ass adults still believe in magic”
Yeah I had to read the title twice; that’s an insanely low percentage for the modern era
Good. Religion is stupid in any capacity.
I don’t subscribe to that. I think weaponized religion is bullshit.
Pastafarians only bring fun into the world.
Followers of Jedi, live your best life.
Spiritual Buddhism folks, hell yeah.
There’s countries where your religion is no different from your preference to ketchup vs mustard. It’s just some countries and specific people are fucking assholes.
I still disagree. Using someone else’s philosophy on life to help guide your own defeats the purpose of experiencing said life. That’s me though.
I’m currently nonreligious, but there are hundreds of people that have influenced my personal philosophies. But despite the things I believe having come from or been influenced by other people, I still consider my beliefs to be my own. Why should the beliefs of religious or spiritual people be viewed any differently?
Of course you think they’re your own. It’s important to you to have that feeling of individualism, but you yourself said the opposite. You’ve been influenced by hundreds, right? How is any of your beliefs your own?
Using someone else’s philosophy on life to help guide your own defeats the purpose of experiencing said life.
This sounds a lot like “You don’t get to tell me not to touch the hot stove! I want to experience the burn!” – What’s wrong with listening to other’s look on life and see if and how that can benefit you?
Because some people don’t need to touch a hot stove to feel the heat from it. In your binary view of the world you’re either the burned or the observer.
If every human had to learn from step one we’d never progress. Taking lessons from past experiences is valid in many ways. The alternate side of that is many humans must make their own mistakes to learn those lessons. It’s why we rarely listen to our parents. And unfortunately many humans require a group to belong to, as our evolutionary history required the social collective to survive. Which is why religion has been so powerful, especially once the con men realized they could use that “flaw” in human evolution to manipulate people. So for sure we should always be skeptical about being led by others. But I’m afraid the “concept” of religion (groupthink) will likely never go away - it’s a huge part of what makes us social creatures. But I absolutely agree that “religion” as a generalization is fucked.
Damn I really thought it’d be more
I remember seeing a similar report 20 years ago and it was something like 4%, with something like 20% are agnostic.
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I’m a Satanist so, same.
The term I use to describe myself is Apathestic, which is not really believing or disbelieving in a god or gods because it is irrelevant to your life and not worth thinking about.
Thank god.
For comparison: In 2022, 25% of Germans were members of the Roman-Catholic church, 23% were protestants. About 4% were other Christians. In Between 2019 and 2021, 3–7% were Muslims (depending on the survey). All other denominations sum to less than 1%, leaving some 40% without confession.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religionen_in_Deutschland
Note that these numbers are from different censuses in different years, and all are rounded, so they don’t add up to 100%.
That’s not very much.
A lot of churches will not see this as a sign for self reflection and will instead blame “woke” whatever.
Strange how raping little children, embezzlement, hate speech, subjugation of women and other abuses by various churches might convince people to not associate with a group that perpetuates that.
They literally are doing this to themselves and regularly fail to understand it like a Principal Skinner meme IRL.
