The following information is credited to Damian Thompson at Telegraph.co.uk.

The percentage of Americans who call themselves Christian has dropped 11 per cent in a generation. And I think this is the beginning of a very long slide.

More than ever before, people are just making up their own stories of who they are,” says Barry Kosmin, co-author of the survey. “They say, ‘I’m everything. I’m nothing. I believe in myself.’

The new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) is based on 54,000 interviews carried out last year, updating a database of 113,000 interviews carried out in 1990. The new figures show that the percentage of non-believers has nearly doubled from 8 to 15 per cent in the past 18 years.

Non-believers now outnumber every religious group in America except Catholics and Baptists. This is not a surprise to me – though it may surprise British people who are regularly fed garbage by our media, who insist on portraying Americans as people of simple and sunny faith, whatever form it takes.

What do you think about this movement?  Are there good reasons for people to become less religious.

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