Survey: 100 Million Americans Are Religious “Nones”

The Washington Post reports:

Overall, 62 percent of Americans call themselves Christian, a figure that has been roughly stable over the past five years, but is down from 71 percent in 2014 and 78 percent in 2007. In the latest poll, 40 percent of U.S. adults identify as Protestants, 19 percent as Catholics and 3 percent as “other” Christians.

Meanwhile, about 3 in 10 Americans, 29 percent, are religiously unaffiliated. That figure has also been relatively stable in recent years, but is up from 23 percent in 2014 and 16 percent in 2007. Those who don’t identify as religious include 6 percent of U.S. adults who are agnostic, 5 percent who are atheist and 19 percent who say they are “nothing in particular.”

“One driver of the long-term trend,” the Pew Research report said, is “generational replacement,” where “older, highly religious, heavily Christian generations are passing away. The younger generations succeeding them are much less religious, with smaller percentages of Christians and more ‘nones.’”

Read the full article. That’s 100 million Americans who are are now “nones,” given the current US population of 342 million.