“AEI’s Survey Center on American Life investigating contemporary religion in the U.S. found that among young adults (age 18 to 29)… (34%) young adults are religiously unaffiliated. Nearly nine in 10 (87%) Americans report they believe in God, but just over half (53%) report they believe in God without any doubts at all.” - CPost
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Another confusing headline from CPost. “Most common religious identity among young adults is ‘none;’ belief in God not necessary for morality: study” … can easily be misunderstood to mean most young adults are nones. This is not what the study says.
https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/religious-diversity-and-c…
“Most common religious identity” is an odd way to put it. What this apparently means is that including “none” as one option among a series of religious identities, “none” — in that age group — has a larger % than any one of the other categories. But if you compare “% affiliated with a religion” with “% not affiliated with a religion,” about a third are unaffiliated. Most are not nones.
But the % of nones is much larger than it used to be and seems to be continuing to increase.
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