The rapid, unprecedented growth of the "nones" continues apace.
The nonreligious are now larger than any single religious group in America, including evangelicals and Catholics. What's more, they've become an outright majority in multiple states:
I'm thinking there's a potential category error here, or maybe too much jumping to conclusions about what a "none of the above" response to a survey question actually means.
Just because someone doesn't want to be associated with existing organizations of a particular type doesn't always tell us much about what they believe or even necessarily that they've given a whole lot of thought to it.
Could be a rise in secular humanism / rationalism / atheism (hint: these aren't all the same thing). ... or a vacuum waiting to be filled by Something Else. Nor are these mutually exclusive.
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