I Am An Atheist
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, [i][b]65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade[/b][/i]. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, [i][b]consisting of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” now stands at 26%, up from 17% in 2009.[/b][/i]
Both Protestantism and Catholicism are experiencing losses of population share.[i] Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. [/i]And one-in-five adults (20%) are Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. [i][b]Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their numbers swell[/b][/i]. [i][b]Self-described atheists now account for 4% of U.S. adults, up modestly but significantly from 2% in 2009; [/b][/i]agnostics make up 5% of U.S. adults, up from 3% a decade ago; and 17% of Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12% in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult populati
Both Protestantism and Catholicism are experiencing losses of population share.[i] Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. [/i]And one-in-five adults (20%) are Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. [i][b]Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their numbers swell[/b][/i]. [i][b]Self-described atheists now account for 4% of U.S. adults, up modestly but significantly from 2% in 2009; [/b][/i]agnostics make up 5% of U.S. adults, up from 3% a decade ago; and 17% of Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12% in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult populati
