>>I had not heard the 11-18% statistic. I have read that the U.S. is about 75% Christian. To listen to some you would think it's 99.9%.
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>Of course you hadn't. The extent of non-believing in the US is one of the best kept public secrets.
I read somewhere that it is estimated that 10% of the population is atheist. Now if 75% are Christian as Mike B reports, and 10% are atheist (or agnostic even), that only leaves 15% for everything else.
I honestly think that many who profess to belong to a religion are truly agnostic (cannot claim to know (have knowledge) of the existence of God) rather than atheist (lacking a belief in God). I know a few atheists who are agnostic - they simply don't know if God exists or not so they don't believe in God - not necessarily believing that God does not exist or one way or the other.
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