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Those that have no religion or anti religion views are gaining in population in the United States. According to recent reports, people with no religion now have amassed to 15 percent of the total population of the United States. The recent trends have also shown that in a few years, this number can surpass Catholics, the largest religious denomination in the U.S. at 24 percent. According to American Nones: Profile of the No Religion Population, the number includes 19 % of U.S. men and 12 percent of women. As far as age goes, those with anti religion views make up 22 percent of adults aged eighteen to twenty-nine. Additionally, out of these numbers 35 percent of them stated that they had been Catholic at the age of twelve.
Atheism, the idea believed by atheists, is essentially the belief that there are no deities or gods and have no religion in their life. It can also be defined, in much more broad terms, as the rejection of any belief of deities. While the exact definition of atheism is widely debated, there are several levels of atheism, giving different meanings to the word. By the broadest of standards, atheism refers to the absence of any belief in gods or deities. This modern definition of Atheism originated in the 18th century. The word “atheism” arose from the Greek word atheos, meaning “without gods”. This was a negative word applied to those individuals who did not believe or worship gods of any kind that the larger society as a whole believed in. The eventual rise of freethought, skepticism, and criticism of religions led to a more widespread belief in atheism.
Research of atheism and people with no religion suggests that it will only take about twenty years before one out of every five Americans have anti religion views within the United States. Women are less likely to reject the views of faith and become anti religion, and they are more likely to reject a secular upbringing.
The studies suggest that the anti religion population is not necessarily rejecting the idea of an existing God, but rather, they have an “American forefather” approach to the idea. Most of non religion people are skeptical of organized religion and the views and actions they perpetuate, but still believe there exists a supreme being.
As far as behavior is concerned, secular people and religious people are largely the same in the United States population. The difference in education, income and marital status is negligible at most. People who practice religion and no religion believers are both just as likely to end their marriage in a divorce.
There is no doubt about it that non religion people have gained ground within the U.S. population and are seen more of a serious socio-demographic group.