I was reading a report on religious demographics (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011025/nyth023_1.html) and was struck how the second most popular religion in almost all demographics is ‘No Religion.’ For native americans it trails by a single percentage point.(19% vs 20% for Baptist).

The stats… 14.1% report no religion supporting my recent upgrade from the 10% number to closer to 18% (based on prayer activity post 9/11). Numerically that’s 29.4 million people up sharply from the report in 1990 by adding the ‘, if any’ to the ‘What religion do you identify with?’ question. And to be clear we aren’t talking about non mainline faiths, non-Christian religions accounted 3.7%.