From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/16/young-turks-religion-is-dying-in-america/
By David Ferguson
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Friday night on Current TV’s “The Young Turks,” host Cenk Uygur looked at new surveys of U.S. public opinion and posited that this country is following the countries of Europe in an increasing trend toward secularism.
“There’s a new poll out on religion,” Uygur said, “and it is fascinating.”
A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that increasingly when polled on their religious affiliation, more and more U.S. citizens are listing themselves as having “none.”
In the first half of the 20th century, Uygur said, that number among Americans was at 5 percent.
“In 1990, that number moved up to 8 percent,” he continued. Fair enough, “not much movement,” he said.
“But get a load of this,” he said. “All of a sudden, when they ask again today, the number has moved up to 20 percent.”
Twenty percent, said Uygur, “is a gigantic bloc of Americans. In fact, it’s nearly equal now to the number of Evangelicals in the country, and they have enormous political power.”
Non-religious people, he said, need to organize and work together to wield some power in public policy.
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