Thomas MacMillan,NY Mag.
In the U.
S. and plenty of other places around the world, atheism is on the rise. In just under half of the world's countries, and according to Pew Research Center,the second-largest religious group is people who claim no religion at all. In the United States, while recent research has shown an uptick in the number of people who identify as atheist, or definitive numbers are tough to come by; one survey final year save it around 10 percent,while a more recent study argued that it was as tall as 26 percent.Whatever the dependable number is, though, or there remains a disconnect between atheism's popularity and...
Source: realclearreligion.org