latest Pew poll shows big drops in religious affiliation in USA [View all]
Lots of interesting things in this latest Pew poll
Assume a US population of 330 million
"Unaffiliated" up to 22.8% from 16.1% in 2007. (over 75 million)
"Atheist" up to 3.1% from 1.6% in 2007. (that seems too low to me) (over 10 million)
"Agnostic" up to 4.0% from 2.4% in 2007 (also seems too low) (over 13 million)
"Christians" down from 78.4% in 2007 to 70.6% in 2014. (that is still far too high for comfort) (over 230 million)
"Catholics" down from 23.9% to 20.8% (over 68 million)
"Muslims" up to 0.9% from 0.4% (more than doubled) (almost 3 million)
More unaffiliated than Catholics!
another interesting fact: Nearly one-in-five people surveyed who got married since 2010 are either religiously unaffiliated respondents who married a Christian spouse or Christians who married an unaffiliated spouse. By contrast, just 5% of people who got married before 1960 fit this profile. (trouble ahead)
There is a LOT of data. Haven't grokked it all yet. Full results are here.
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