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AtheistCrusader

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2. It looks pretty accurate to me.

Reply to kentauros (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 25, 2014, 12:57 PM

Oct 2014

That “essentially secular in belief and practice.” is a difficult grey area to categorize, when the people you're shuffling into it number into the tens of millions. Likely a large number of that group before adding skeptics, may believe of accept the possibility of a supernatural god, putting them in a agnostic/undecided sort of middle ground.

(I would quibble with the article's use of “There are tens of millions of active believers in America today", that's actually hundreds of millions, not tens, being about 200m people that are believers.)

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Secularism grows as more U.S. Christians turn ‘churchless’ [View all] hrmjustin Oct 2014 OP

I do wish people would stop using the word "secular" kentauros Oct 2014 #1

It looks pretty accurate to me. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #2

I guess I should have highlighted within my quote, too. kentauros Oct 2014 #3

I kind of agree - it's used in my faith all the time inappropriately el_bryanto Oct 2014 #4

I don't know if this is prevalent in other countries or what, kentauros Oct 2014 #5

A lot of those churchless people aren't churchless, though--there's a new trend towards MADem Oct 2014 #6