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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>}}
== Growth of the "nones"/unaffiliated in the West and its effect on Western politics and the political power of atheists ==
See: [[Growth of the "nones"/unaffiliated in the West and its effect on Western politics and the political power of atheists]]
== Spiritual but not religious, mental disorders and suicides ==
== Spiritual but not religious, mental disorders and suicides ==