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Poll: Is the 'No Religion' Boom in America a Good Thing?

September 24, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

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A new survey says a quarter of all Americans are likely to claim to have "no religion" within 20 years. How do you view the boom in Americans without a religious affiliation?

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I think it is a pity that so many people think it's a good thing if more people are religious free, however I do believe everyone has a right to their own opinion. I just wish people would stop trying to push no religion on everyone. If u don't want to believe then good, don't, but stop trying to convert everyone else. If its in our pledge, on our money, in our courts, so what, its always been there leave it alone. If you don't like it live somewhere else. So simple, if you don't like freedom to believe what you want go live in another country.

Ashame of AZ 1:01PM November 03, 2009

I know that online polls like this are not accurate. Still, I find it heartening that this many people think reason instead of blind faith (pardon...blind faith is a redundancy) is a good thing. I think it's a positive step that fewer and fewer people even bother to argue with "Intelligent Design" proponents, just like no astronomers bother to argue with "flat-Earthers".

Faith and Religion are anti-reason and dangerous. The sooner we're free of the old superstitions the better.

Robert of AZ 3:05PM October 05, 2009

Almost all the great thinkers of the world have rejected religion and equated it to superstition. I wish to be included among them.

I am a proud member and supporter of Freedom From Religion Foundation, American Humanist Association, American Atheists, Council for Secular Humanism, Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix, Americans for Religious Liberty, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, ACLU, Secular Coalition of Arizona, Secular Coalition of America, Atheists International

Harold L Saferstein of AZ 8:55PM October 02, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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