{"id":238684,"date":"2019-04-09T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238684"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T20:25:12","slug":"is-america-becoming-godless-the-number-of-people-who-have-no-religion-has-risen-266-percent-one-third-of-the-population-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/is-america-becoming-godless-the-number-of-people-who-have-no-religion-has-risen-266-percent-one-third-of-the-population-in-three-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America becoming Godless? The number of people who have no religion has risen 266 percent \u2013 one third of the population \u2013 in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Wonderful!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans who identify as having no religion has risen 266 percent since 1991, to now tie statistically with the number of Catholics and Evangelicals, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>People with no religion \u2013 known as &#8216;nones&#8217; among statisticians \u2013 account for 23.1 percent of the U.S. population, while Catholics make up 23 percent and Evangelicals account for 22.5 percent, according to the General Social Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Those three groups now represent the largest the religious groups in America.<\/p>\n<p>The survey has tracked a broad swath of American trends since 1972, offering comprehensive insight into the evolving face of religion over more than four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Burge, a political science professor at Eastern Illinois University who analyzed the data, said that experts have several theories about why the number of &#8216;nones&#8217; has risen so dramatically in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One of them is that many people used to lie about what they were,&#8217; he told DailyMail.com. &#8216;Many people were (always) atheist or non-religious, but it was previously culturally unacceptable to not have a religion in America.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6886705\/Is-America-Godless-number-people-no-religion-rose-266-three-decades.html?fbclid=IwAR2PYIDJSqLtUvoh7u4Pkcjm4CWsrz1Du4Hn5eETWH43ODbxeqjlahkLz9w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6886705\/Is-America-Godless-number-people-no-religion-rose-266-three-decades.html?fbclid=IwAR2PYIDJSqLtUvoh7u4Pkcjm4CWsrz1Du4Hn5eETWH43ODbxeqjlahkLz9w<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Wonderful! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":238685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}