A growing number of adults in the U.S. are unwilling to identify themselves with a religion and half of them say it’s because they ‘don’t believe’, according to a Pew Research center survey.
These religious ‘nones’ are made up of ‘atheists’, ‘agnostics’, and people who say they’re ‘nothing in particular.’ They make up 23 percent of the adult population in the country, according to Pew.
“It just means that ‘I’m not going to accept what I was given from birth, I’m going to question that,” Harvey Stark, a professor of Religious Studies at Sac State, said.
The Pew survey states the reasons given by the non-believers included ‘science’, ‘common sense’, and ‘lack of evidence.’