Lots of people still hang on to religious beliefs about politicians LONG after rejecting gods. Those falling short of sainthood are always savaged. Where are the good ol' time perfect gods anyway?

Religion is on the way out. All that Noah's ark and Eve and the apple. Those stories are 3500 years old. Science has opened our eyes to a lot of stuff. Young people aren't buying all that crap as much as in the past.In the cult of Christianity they try as hard as they can to brainwash a child before the child is old enough to decide for himself/herself.

That is conflating skepticism with religious beliefs.
People can not hold religious beliefs and not be skeptics even though they applied skeptical thought to religious assertions and found those lacking.

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It’s the difference between ignorance and apathy: Don’t know and don’t care

We can only hope so. It's our only chance.

Is religiosity really declining? God I hope so!

Very much so, just think, if electricity had been invented in the beginning, then religious nuts would be walking around with little electric chairs round their necks instead of stupid little crosses

I hope

If you look at the "Islamic invasion" currently going on in Europe it's definitely on the rise there.

I think the increase of the “nones” includes all who are not current participants in “organized religion” but who may be in transition away from the religion of their youth, yet do have a personal spirituality or dabble in new age woo.

I've often questioned the validity of such polls myself.

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The statistical studies on this are largely useless, because they don't give their sampling methodology.

More people are not religious than ever before but I think Islam is actually increasing at a rapid rate. This is mainly because less muslims are becoming nonreligious than christians, and religious people tend to have way more children.

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TBH, I'm not sure there really are that many more nones. I don't have actual data, but I suspect a good part of the rise is just atheists coming out of the closet. Social media and forums like this one have made it a lot easier for us to discover how many of us there are.

I'd have to agree that more people consider themselves atheist than used to.
Education plus lessening stigma plus more accepting countries/governments = more atheists.