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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: religion declining
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:54:54 +0100
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On 10 Mar 2009, at 10:00, Robert Ettinger wrote:

> A new religion survey says that respondents in the USA reporting no   
> religion
> has grown from 8.2% in 1990 to 15% now (2008?).

This is more relevant:





<http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf
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Identification / Number / Percent

Atheist  /  1,621,000  /  0.7

Agnostic / 1,985,000  /  0.9



Beliefs about God among U.S. Adult Population 2008

Regarding the existence of God, do you think . . . ?

There is no such thing 2.3%
There is no way to know 4.3%
I'm not sure  5.7%



Even if we take the lowest number, .7%, we should have at least 3,500  
members signed up. This assumes that only atheist millionaires sign up  
(See Message-Number 30687).



dss

David Stodolsky
                     Skype: davidstodolsky




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