What lines are missing causing the numbers to not total 100% ?

A 10% drop in Christians and a 9% rise in "religious non affiliated".

But that doesn't mean not believing in god or spirits. For a lot of believers christianity is either too restrictive old-timey and uncool. But they still cling...

Agonistism and athemism both rose a couple of percentage points.

But what i found most funny is that the group that had the largest change from beliving to nonbelieving are...Democrats! Lol...jee I wonder what happened in the last few years that may have caused that.

Thanks for sharing. I have past it on to fellow atheist.

If I read this correctly..... 1% of our population identifies as Muslim. 2% identifies as Jewish.
And yet, our politicians and news media seem to focus on the positives & negatives of these two groups.

Thanks for posting Rob. The graphs are interesting.

The intent of my post below was to offer some background on PEW. I did and it spurred further dialogue and more background came out. That's a good thing. As my peers here reminded us that what is written by the subject about themselves is not always sufficient and deeper digging is necessary. Job done.

Yes an no, any belief system based group that starts shrinking, tends to become more uniform and thus radicalizing.
If strong secular movements are not in place to counter it, the radicalization of smaller groups can be more harmful than hegemony of a moderate group.

This could mean that more and more Americans are learning the truth.

Very nice, but they still run everything.

Some background on the Pew Resesrch Center since we commonly hear about their research, but may not anything about them.

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Very welcome news indeed.
It appears that, finally, people in the 'Land of Hope and Gory' ( Yes, I meant Gory, not Glory) may be getting tired of being led like sheep to be shorn and have their pockets 'religiously' picked every Sunday, etc.

Great article—thanks!

Excellent news! Thank you for posting this.

Over the last couple of years, I have read many things that have said that disbelief and belief in the FSM are the fastest growing things.

Woot!! That is good news