atheists – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:06:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png atheists – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 About three-in-ten U.S. adults are now religiously unaffiliated https://iric.org/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated https://iric.org/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/#respond Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:16:26 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=18667 The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing. The latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is 6 percentage points higher than it was five years ago and 10 points higher than a decade ago.

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Christians continue to make up a majority of the U.S. populace, but their share of the adult population is 12 points lower in 2021 than it was in 2011. In addition, the share of U.S. adults who say they pray on a daily basis has been trending downward, as has the share who say religion is “very important” in their lives.

Currently, about three-in-ten U.S. adults (29%) are religious “nones” – people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” when asked about their religious identity. Self-identified Christians of all varieties (including Protestants, Catholics, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Orthodox Christians) make up 63% of the adult population. Christians now outnumber religious “nones” by a ratio of a little more than two-to-one. In 2007, when the Center began asking its current question about religious identity, Christians outnumbered “nones” by almost five-to-one (78% vs. 16%).

The recent declines within Christianity are concentrated among Protestants. Today, 40% of U.S. adults are Protestants, a group that is broadly defined to include nondenominational Christians and people who describe themselves as “just Christian” along with Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and members of many other denominational families. The Protestant share of the population is down 4 percentage points over the last five years and has dropped 10 points in 10 years.

Source: Pew Research

]]> https://iric.org/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/feed/ 0 The six countries in the world with the most ‘convinced atheists’ https://iric.org/the-six-countries-in-the-world-with-the-most-convinced-atheists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-six-countries-in-the-world-with-the-most-convinced-atheists https://iric.org/the-six-countries-in-the-world-with-the-most-convinced-atheists/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:04:06 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=28755 Governments have imposed their own rules against religion throughout history.

Religion around the world is on the decline. For the first time ever, Norway now has more people who do not believe in God than do – with 39 per cent of atheists versus 37 per cent of believers. In the US, meanwhile, a nation whose dollar bill signs states “In God We Trust”, belief in the Christian deity is also at an all time low.

Research found that nearly twice as many Americans in 2014 said they did not believe in God as in 1980 – and that five times as many in 2014 said they never prayed, with millennials in particular accounting for the change in public opinion. Now a map has shown degrees of religion around the world according to the countries with the most people saying they are “convinced atheists”.

Yet despite a trend towards fewer people believing in God around the world, it appears only a few countries have more than 20 per cent of citizens who are comfortable about rejecting the notion of a deity entirely.

Here are six of the most atheist countries in the world, not including Norway:

  1. China
  2. Japan
  3. Czech Republic
  4. France
  5. Australia
  6. Iceland

Read more at: The Independent

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