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Religion is Dying in the U.S.A.

Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
It seems the non-religious are now the second largest group when the question of religion is asked. Americans who claim “no religion at all” is up to 15%, in 2008, it was only 8% in 1990. This now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics (25.1%) and Baptists (15.8%). The non-religious now out rank the general born again Christians who are down in the 14.2%. Protestant? 12.9%. Not very good for a nation that was largely Christian. Looks like the the challenge to Christianity is not going to come from the Middle East, (Muslim are only 0.3% to 0.6% in the US) but from people rejecting all form of organized religion.

Makes you wonder why politicians don’t try and cater to this new voting block? I say that jokingly because being A-theistic is not some club you join. As someone once said “getting atheist to ban together is like herding cats”. It’s far easier to get the religious types worked up over an issue, they are far more inclined to follow the herd or the lead cow anyway. When you are not religious, religion becomes just one more of the unimportant things you are not, and in life there as far more things you don’t believe in than you do. Chances are you do not believe in a South seas coconut tree dwelling Tiki god. Hey! me too, To me the Tiki god is in the same box of bologna as the popular sky daddy, virgin born, dead guy on a stick stuff.