PEW: RELIGIOUS ‘NONES’ TEND TO BE UNDEREDUCATED, POOR, WHITE MALES

Makes sense when you consider it in historical context. There has never been a great ancient atheist society. They really contributed nothing to the advancement of humanity.

[link to www.breitbart.com]

Flying in the face of the common belief that irreligiosity tends to rise with education and income, the exact opposite trend emerges from the Pew Center’s most recent comprehensive report on religion in America.

Those who identify with the label of religiously unaffiliated—sometimes known as “nones”—tend to be high-school educated, white males who earn less than $30,000 a year.

According to the survey, the number of religiously unaffiliated adults describing themselves as “nones” increased significantly in the seven-year period between 2007 and 2014, adding some 20 million to their numbers. They now account for nearly 23% of the US population.

Among the religiously unaffiliated, only a small fraction possesses a college degree. According to the Pew survey, 45% of religious “nothing in particulars” have a high school diploma or less, while only 15% have a college degree and even fewer—9%—a post-graduate degree. The numbers change only slightly when taking into account all religious “nones,” with 38% having a high school education at most.