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Article: The rise of the Nones: a paleostatisitical inquiry: Part 1.(Cover Story)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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When the City University of New York's recent American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2001) reported that the proportion of "Nones" (respondents who chose "No religion" instead of stating a religious preference) rose from 8 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2001, the news was received with enthusiasm in the community of reason. Beth FREE INQUIRY and The Humanist ran articles on the finding. (1) Elsewhere, enthusiasm outran discernment. One atheist leader announced that 29 million Americans identified themselves as atheists. Actually, according to ARIS 2001 results, only 902,000 volunteered that label; a like number, 991,000, called themselves agnostics. Barely 100,000 ...
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