From: "CE" 

On Mar 29, 3:26 pm, r...{at}somis.org (·R L Measures) wrote:

> In article
,
"CE"
>
>  wrote:
> > > In the US, the religious Right numbers about
> > > 35 million. Recent polls show that about 30
> > > million Americans define themselves as hav-
> > > ing no religious commitment.
>
> > Based on The World Factbook, roughly 29.8 million Americans have no
> > religious affiliation. By comparison, there are 155.2 million
> > Protestants and 71.6 million Roman Catholics for a total of 226.8
> > million Christians. That means there are more than seven times, 7.6 to
> > be exact, as many Christians and atheists in the United States.
>
> **  Are people who have no religious affiliation atheists ?.

Point taken. Among those of no religious affiliation, there may be, for
example, agnostics or those who are spiritual but do not wish to affiliate
themselves with any religious group or faith. So, the number of atheists is
probably much lower than I indicated.

Mea culpa.

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