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Washington's Blog reports
The Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life is reporting, in their poll of 35,000 Americans, that during the seven years from 2007 to 2014, the numbers of religiously "Unaffiliated" were soaring, the numbers of Christians were plunging, and the numbers of adherents to non-Christian faiths were rising substantially but not nearly as much as were the numbers of "Unaffiliated".
This report, issued on May 12th, is headlined, "America's Changing Religious Landscape: Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow".
It shows that: the percentage of Americans who are unaffiliated rose from 16.1% in 2007 up to 22.8% today.
[...][The USA] is becoming a less [religious], and a more religiously diverse, country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:00AM
By definition there is no supernatural anything in any religion or secular view. Unless of course you define supernatural to be a subset of the whole in which one group of people believe to be and another does not, then all that "supernatural" becomes is the difference. The views of atheists are obvious but religious views may not be. For instance a person could say that miracles are supernatural, but for a Catholic they are created just as anything else is created: by God's will alone. Thus miracles are perfectly natural to a Catholic. Ghosts or spirits might get the supernatural moniker. They don't exist at all in a secular view and Celts would deem them part of nature, just not a common or welcome part.
Thus defining atheism as a set of beliefs built around there being no supernatural anything would be to say that everyone everywhere is an atheist, some of which just so happen to believe in a god. Now that does not seem right does it?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Farkus888 on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:41AM
If miracles were natural they wouldn't be miracles. Even the religious understand that the laws of nature apply, except when God causes a miracle to defy them. But that is flippant. I am an atheist and I wrote what I did from that perspective. Supernatural to me meaning not observable, repeatable, and measurable by scientific methods. If there is a better word for that I don't know it. Before you mention those ghost hunter groups, I'll expect you to explain why they've never bothered to pick up their free million dollars from Rands.