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Desecularization and social conformity (view source)
Revision as of 23:11, May 19, 2017
, 23:11, May 19, 2017→Retention rate of atheists raised in a U.S. atheist households
The retention rate is even worse for the full blown atheist population. 60% of those raised atheist abandon atheism; 0.5% of the population was raised atheist and 0.3% of it left atheism. And while 1.4% of the population became atheist, the fact that nearly all of the nation is not atheist means that the non-atheist population has a retention rate of 98.6%, which is nearly 2.5 times better than the atheist retention rate of 40%. Therefore, the perceived rapid growth of atheism is nothing more than an artifact of the atheist population's statistical insignificance. Even the dying Episcopalian church has a better retention rate than atheism...<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-atheist-myth.html Another atheist myth]</ref>}}
The retention rate is even worse for the full blown atheist population. 60% of those raised atheist abandon atheism; 0.5% of the population was raised atheist and 0.3% of it left atheism. And while 1.4% of the population became atheist, the fact that nearly all of the nation is not atheist means that the non-atheist population has a retention rate of 98.6%, which is nearly 2.5 times better than the atheist retention rate of 40%. Therefore, the perceived rapid growth of atheism is nothing more than an artifact of the atheist population's statistical insignificance. Even the dying Episcopalian church has a better retention rate than atheism...<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-atheist-myth.html Another atheist myth]</ref>}}
=== University of Minnesota indicates that American dislike of atheists grew ===
A 2016 press release of a University of Minnesota study on atheists reported:
{{Cquote|Survey data collected in 2014 shows that, compared to data collected in 2003, Americans have sharpened their negative views of atheists...
The findings of this most recent survey support the argument that atheists are persistent cultural outsiders in the United States because they are perceived to have rejected cultural values and practices understood as essential to private morality, civic virtue, and national identity. Moreover, any refusal to embrace a religious identity of any type is troubling for a large portion of Americans.<ref>[http://cla.umn.edu/news-events/news/atheists-remain-most-disliked-religious-minority-us Atheists Remain Most Disliked Religious Minority in the US]</ref>}}
The atheist Dan Arel reported:
{{Cquote|In 2014, [http://www.alternet.org/belief/major-study-americas-overwhelming-mean-streak-toward-atheists-and-muslims Pew Research found that atheists ranked down at the bottom of the list], only 1 point above Muslims as the least trusted religious demographic in the United States...
Now, according to a [http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/17/sf.sow063.abstract new study released by University of Minnesota sociologists] shows that today, atheists are the most disliked.
The study compared a previous 2003 study with the new study, originally conducted in 2014, and found that Americans have only sharpened their dislike for atheists and religious nones.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2016/09/study-atheists-remain-the-most-disliked-religious-minority-in-the-u-s/ Study: Atheists remain the most disliked religious minority in the U.S.]</ref>}}
According the American atheist author Kevin Davis, atheism has an "unshakeable stigma".<ref>[http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/11/lifetree-meeting-atheism-26370.html An Atheist Walks into a Christian Meeting about Atheism] by Kevin Davis</ref>
== Global atheism is shrinking in its percentage of adherents ==
== Global atheism is shrinking in its percentage of adherents ==