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Survey Profiles Nonreligious Americans

Christianpost.com: “The Non-Religious Identification Survey, completed by more than 5,000 nonreligious individuals, is said to be the first study of its type with a full range of questions directed to the ‘nones,’ or nonreligious population, who make up around 16 percent of Americans.

The survey found the population to be less homogeneous than previous studies have typically portrayed them to be. Forty-eight percent described themselves as atheist, 12 percent identified themselves as agnostic, 22 percent chose the label humanist, 7 percent called themselves spiritual, and 5 percent chose other.

When given the option to choose multiple terms to describe themselves, 77 percent checked ‘atheist,’ 63 percent marked ‘humanist,’ 29 percent reported ‘agnostic,’ and 3 percent checked ’spiritual.’ But when forced to choose only one label among the four, far fewer individuals identified themselves as humanist (24 percent). Meanwhile, 57 percent preferred the label ‘atheist.’”

(Read More at The Christian Post.)

Atheists have started advertising - ‘There’s probably no God’

‘There’s probably no God’: “Atheists have started advertising. The most talked about ad campaign in England, now plastered across the outside of 800 British buses, declares: ‘There’s probably no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life.’ The campaign opened last week with rousing speeches by Richard Dawkins and representatives of the British Humanist Association, after a less aggressive campaign (240 buses) in Washington, D.C. back in November. The American Humanists chose the interrogative rather than the declarative mode for their message: ‘Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.’ After the great success of Dawkins’ book The God Delusion and Hitchens’ God is Not Great, atheism is taking the next step and forming itself into an organized movement.”

(Via Financial Post.)