What is your religion? - "none". Those are we, the "nones"!


The percentage of people in America who declare that they have "no religion" has DOUBLED in the past decade to 14%.
In Canada, that group went from 11% to 16% in the same period.
In Washington state, they reached 21% now.
In B.C. Canada, its 35%.

I figure that these numbers may be lower than in reality, due to the strong negativity coming from hostile christians, and the backlash we get for stating our views.

Numbers alone do not make the case for their validity, but it does show that the trend is to move away from religions and belief in god. Not all of the people in these numbers are pure athiests, but they do all say "We are not into Jesus, Budda, and Mohammed".


They are also not excluding spirituality. That was something Lapis said to me too "what are you doing talking about spirituality when you are an athiest.
Thats one big misunderstanding about us - we do tend to be VERY spiritual. If we were not, we would not bother to decide of we belive in god, nor would we bother to declare religion as a dangerous misleading misguided and outdated.

"Searching for Eden" , as our quest spiritually , may be a way to understand us. Nature is generally the place we learn to let our spirit be guided, Nature is what guids much of our spirit and environmental concerns guide much of our politics and lifestyle.

We believe that being close to nature is better than pretending we are close to god. [I say pretending , because there is nothing there...].

Divinity is pushing it. There are divine aspects to our lives, and in nature, but it gets linked with the idea that only the gods of various religion's are divine.

The closest we come to organised is that some of us are leaning towards the native north american indian's spirituality, attracted by the worship of nature, and living within natures way.
But that is heavily influenced by personal quests and personal visions, not much is shared, it is a personal spiritualism.

karlin