{"id":574,"date":"2006-09-13T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2006-09-13T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T13:29:00","slug":"in-dog-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"In Dog We Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this NPR blog entry<\/a> where they cited a study that said 8.2% of Americans do not believe in God, or any other higher power or cosmic force, which struck me because I had always heard it was closer to 3-4% or so.<\/p>\n

I skimmed through the study<\/a> but couldn’t find the reference for that number. Percent with no official religious affiliation (though not necessarily atheist) is 10.8%. Of that group, 37.1% don’t believe in a higher power, making that number around 4% of the total. Later, they give the atheist percent at 5.2%. How is that? Because some people with an affiliation with a religion are atheists! 8.3% of Jewish people and 1.3% of catholics are atheists. Also, only 38.7% of atheists never pray.<\/p>\n

There are all sorts of interesting correlations. <\/p>\n