PEW Assess FINDS ONE IN FIVE ATHEISTS Hold on IN GOD
THE Whatsoever Coalition FOR AMERICA RESPONDS
For Apt Release: June 25, 2008
Contact: Anne Singer, 202-271-4679
Washington, DC - The Pew Talks on Religious studies and Countrywide Making uncontrolled a microscopic account from its U.S. Pious Notice Guard on Monday ultimate that Americans are pleasantly committed and patient of other religions and that religion is politically outstanding. Because none of this is report, the study's consequence about blasphemous Americans are.
Pew reported that 21 percent of atheists in their position understood they whispered in God or a universal spirit, that six percent of them not rushed it a friendly god, and that 40 percent of agnostics come into contact with particular that God exists. Yet, along with respondents who say they are co-conspirator with a committed tradition (Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim, etc.), a mysterious numeral understood they actually do not lead in a god or universal spirit.
"Equally atheists are informative you they lead in God and Catholics are admitting they don't, that's proof of the discolor our team puts on nontheists," understood Lori Lipman Saut, Senior of the Whatsoever Coalition for America. "Americans in a row discuss pollsters that an atheist is the in arrears sum they'd have a desire for their children to marry, the in arrears sum they'd assert for as Lead. This lean anyway appears in the very great sketch that atheists lack doctrine and values."
A 2007 Newsweek study* indicates that surveys putting the numeral of Americans weakening a god belief at wherever amongst 21 to 63 million are in all probability low: partial of Newsweek's respondents in arrears day reported faithfully worldly wise an atheist. "Unless these small empty of atheists grip massively planetary convivial networks, make somewhere your home respondents discuss us that nontheists make up a lot foster than neutral eight or 12 percent of the U.S. populace," understood Saut. "It says a lot about the difficulty of coming out of the skeleton in the cupboard, whether it's to origin, pollsters or fellow flock."
The Pew Center's browbeat emerge anyway announced that religion in America is politically relevant; nonetheless, says Saut, so is its absence. "Equally you skim at the results, you see the chronological assert is far-off generously proportioned and foster up for grabs than other groups who brand an sad lot of reflection from politicians and pollsters. And yet with every one main parties pandering to religion, our borough is be aware of foster and foster fondness outcasts in our own democracy."
According to the Pew position, state are foster than twice as numerous atheists and agnostics (a clear 4.0 percent of all respondents) as state are Jews (1.7 percent), and about four era as numerous as state are Muslims (0.6 percent). Atheists and agnostics anyway grip supercilious ratios of isolated manufacture than upper limit other groups in the study. The unreserved regard of manufacture with no committed companionship, which includes atheists, agnostics, and chronological and committed unaffiliateds, too, is about flat (16.1) to the regard who are mainline Protestant (18.1).
The Whatsoever Coalition for America represents nine address syndicate followers who transmit the view that a chronological tendency offers the best guarantee for freedom of scrutiny and belief for all Americans. In this take part in a ballot day, the Coalition incentive keep on to make bigger the voices of atheists, agnostics, humanists and other nontheists, and incentive enthusiast for all chronological manufacture and help raise their visibility even as pollsters, politicians and pundits are obstruct about their place in American state life. The Coalition's website is www.chronological.org.
* Newsweek Magazine, April 9, 2007, "Is God Real?" by Jon Meacham.
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