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Eric Kaufmann wrote:
Eric Kaufmann wrote:
{{cquote|The same is true in the United States. “Nones” may be the third-largest religious group in the United States, and ex-Catholics the fourth-largest, but the switching story needs a demographic context. If America remained 70 percent white, the population would reach European levels of secularization in two generations and Catholics would rapidly lose market share to Protestants. Instead, swift Hispanic and Asian population growth is projected to stabilize the share of nonreligious Americans at roughly today’s levels.<ref>[http://www.aei.org/publication/the-future-will-be-more-religious-and-conservative-than-you-think/print/ The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think] by Eric Kaufmann</ref>}}
{{cquote|The same is true in the United States. “Nones” may be the third-largest religious group in the United States, and ex-Catholics the fourth-largest, but the switching story needs a demographic context. If America remained 70 percent white, the population would reach European levels of secularization in two generations and Catholics would rapidly lose market share to Protestants. Instead, swift Hispanic and Asian population growth is projected to stabilize the share of nonreligious Americans at roughly today’s levels.<ref>[http://www.aei.org/publication/the-future-will-be-more-religious-and-conservative-than-you-think/print/ The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think] by Eric Kaufmann</ref>}}
== Spiritual but not religious, mental disorders and suicides ==
According to the ''British Journal of Psychiatry'': “People who have a spiritual understanding of life in the absence of a religious framework are vulnerable to mental disorder.”<ref>[http://religiondispatches.org/new-research-links-spiritual-not-religious-to-mental-disorder/ NEW RESEARCH LINKS SPIRITUAL-NOT-RELIGIOUS TO MENTAL DISORDER] by ELIZABETH DRESCHER</ref>
Elizabeht Drescher declared in the article ''Mew Research Links Spiritual but not religious to mental disorder'':
{{Cquote|In the British study, SBNRs were found to be significantly more likely to be drug-dependent (77%) and to suffer from phobias (72%) or anxiety (50%). No wonder they’re significantly more likely (40%) than the religious to be being treated with psychotropic drugs.<ref>[http://religiondispatches.org/new-research-links-spiritual-not-religious-to-mental-disorder/ NEW RESEARCH LINKS SPIRITUAL-NOT-RELIGIOUS TO MENTAL DISORDER] by ELIZABETH DRESCHER</ref>}}
=== Religiously unaffiliated and suicide ===
{{See also|Atheism and suicide}}
In 2004, the ''American Journal of Psychiatry'' reported:
{{cquote|Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who committed suicide than subjects who endorsed a religious affiliation. Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children, and had less contact with family members. Furthermore, subjects with no religious affiliation perceived fewer reasons for living, particularly fewer moral objections to suicide. In terms of clinical characteristics, religiously unaffiliated subjects had more lifetime impulsivity, aggression, and past substance use disorder. No differences in the level of subjective and objective depression, hopelessness, or stressful life events were found.<ref>[http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=177228 Religious affiliation and suicide attempts]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15569904 Religious affiliation and suicide attempts]</ref>}}
== Decline of Asian atheism ==
== Decline of Asian atheism ==