About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Meanwhile religiosity is going nowhere: repetition of mantras, hostility towards science that doesn’t support preconceptions, shaming and shunning of outgroups, tribal loyalty, purity purges, supplication before power, confession of sins, forbidden words, tolerance of incoherence… these are all distinctly religious behaviors that seem to be living on happily without the need for the traditional religions that used to host them.