93% of Americans say they believe in God or a higher power:
The rest of us, it turns out, constitute the nation’s fastest-growing religious demographic. We are the Nones, the roughly 12 percent of people who say they have no religious affiliation at all. The percentage is even higher among young people; at least a quarter are Nones.
Apparently, a growing number of Americans are running from organized religion, but by no means running from God. On average 93 percent of those surveyed say they believe in God or a higher power; this holds true for most Nones — just 7 percent of whom describe themselves as atheists, according to a survey by Trinity College
More Nones, less Florida Family Association, please
We need a Steve Jobs of religion.
Oh, god. No. Please leave him alone and don’t drag him into this. What we need is more faux family value, pseudo-religious-nuts like Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush and Rick Santorums to drive people into the Nones column.
