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More Americans say they have no religion

Title: More Americans say they have no religion
Date: Saturday, 7 March 2009
Publisher: Associated Press
Author: Rachel Zoll
Main source: richarddawkins.net

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A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious ... [Read the rest at richarddawkins.net]