[Rocketfan]

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.

Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.

Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region, with Vermont reporting the highest share of those claiming no religion, at 34 percent. Still, the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state.

"No other religious bloc has kept such a pace in every state," the study's authors said.

In the Northeast, self-identified Catholics made up 36 percent of adults last year, down from 43 percent in 1990. At the same time, however, Catholics grew to about one-third of the adult population in California and Texas, and one-quarter of Floridians, largely due to Latino immigration, according to the research.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506849,00.html

[LUconn]

I'd wager that there's an extremely high percentage that don't actually know what "religion" is. It's a pseudonym for "going to church" right?

[Hold My Own]

It's become the trendy/cool thing to say....blah blah blah i have highlights wear graphic t's with blazers and have no religion my religion is God

[olldflame]

It's become the trendy/cool thing to say....blah blah blah i have highlights wear graphic t's with blazers and have no religion my religion is God

Religion............bad
"Spirituality".....good

[jcmanson]

Religion can be superficial, churches can be fake, Christ was none of these - So that's who I follow

[ALUmnus]

Uh, don't forget what the Church is and it's place.

[jcmanson]

Uh, don't forget what the Church is and it's place.

Dude, it's churches in general not "the church."

[Maximus]

Is this really surprising? I don't think so...

We have been heading towards a post christian society for awhile now. Oh how I pray that God would do something in my generation.

[makarov97]

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[olldflame]

The group that professes to be open minded and seek spirituality without doctrine are actually the most narrow minded and dogmatic of all. They basically think everyone who has any real beliefs is wrong, and they and they alone are right.