Just 4.5
percent of agnostics became Protestant or Catholic by 2014.
Not exact matches
Of the 7.3 billion human beings on Planet Earth today, 89 percent are religious believers, while 1.8 percent are professed atheists and another 9 percent are agnostics: which suggests that Chief Poobah of the New Atheists Richard Dawkins and his friends are not exactly winning the day, although their «market share» is up from 190
Of the 7.3 billion human beings on Planet Earth today, 89
percent are religious believers, while 1.8
percent are professed atheists and another 9
percent are
agnostics: which suggests that Chief Poobah
of the New Atheists Richard Dawkins and his friends are not exactly winning the day, although their «market share» is up from 190
of the New Atheists Richard Dawkins and his friends are not exactly winning the day, although their «market share» is up from 1900.
«Self - identified atheists and
agnostics have tripled since 1990, from 1.1 million people to north
of 3.6 million — but the number who now claim «no religion» is 34 million, or fully 15
percent.»
A 2012 study says that atheists and
agnostics only make up about thirty - six
percent of the nones, while thirty - nine
percent just say that they're «not religious.»
The same study showcases «the percentage
of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated — describing themselves as atheist,
agnostic or «nothing in particular» — has jumped more than six points, from 16.1 to 22.8
percent.»
A poll by Eurobaromater shows that only 6
percent of Italians describe themselves as «atheist or
agnostic.»
Non-evangelical born again Christians are 49
percent of the group, atheists and
agnostics 67
percent and people
of other faiths represent 59
percent.
«Also, while there are more people joining the atheist and
agnostic ranks than leaving, it doesn't bode well for atheists that 60 - 70
percent of those who are raised atheist renounce their atheism.
Even religious skeptics (atheists,
agnostics and unaffiliated) at 36
percent were substantially more engaged as
of February.
Though 11
percent of college grads identified as atheists or
agnostics compared to 4
percent of those with a high school diploma or less, 75
percent of those with college degrees still said that they were affiliated with a religion, compared to 76
percent of those with some college education and 78
percent with a high school diploma or less.
Harris polls register an uptick
of atheism, from 4
percent in 2003 to 10
percent in 2008, with another 9
percent identifying themselves as
agnostics.
We (or
agnostics and you got a lot
of those responses too) make up half becasue that's probably a more accurate number than the published 9 or so
percent.
A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study
of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that
of the 13.2
percent who called themselves atheist or
agnostic, 32
percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort
of conscious existence, after death?»
Even more incongruent, 6
percent of these atheists and
agnostics also said that they believed in the bodily resurrection
of the dead.