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kwassa

(23,340 posts) Tue May 12, 2015, 04:25 PM May 2015

Who are the unaffiliated?

http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/05/RLS-05-08-full-report.pdf

Buried in the Pew Report, page 22

as percent of the US population

2007 2014
Unaffiliated 16.1 22.8
Atheist 1.6 3.1
Agnostic 2.4 4.0
Nothing in particular 12.1 15.8

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Who are the unaffiliated? (Original Post) kwassa May 2015 OP

Thanks for digging for that. cbayer May 2015 #1

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

1. Thanks for digging for that.

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2015, 05:02 PM

May 2015

Those are some really significant increases across the board, particularly for atheists.

I think it may be becoming more acceptable for one to identity as atheist or agnostic. That's good news, imo.

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