1. Inter-faitheism : Why Atheists Should be Involved in Inter-faith Dialogue

4. When asked to respond to “This Group Does Not At All Agree with My Vision of American Society,” atheists ranked the highest at 39.6% (above Muslims and Homosexuals). When asked to respond to “Would Disapprove if My Child Wanted to Marry a Member of This Group,” atheists rank highest at 47.6%. Atheists As “Other”: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society,” Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann

6. The “Nones” (no stated religious preference, atheist, or agnostic) continue to grow, though at a much slower pace than in the 1990s, from 8.2% in 1990, to 14.1% in 2001, to 15.0% in 2008.

8. 71.6% of people in the United Kingdom and 78.4% of people in the United States identify themselves as “Christian.” 2001 Census Pew Forum’s Religious Landscape Study of 2008

10. 32% of those who identify as “secular” are registered Democrats, and 43% of them are registered Independents, while those with lower levels of “religious intensity” generally vote Democrat or Independent. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Religion in a Free Market (New York: Paramount Market, 2006), 212 2009 Gallup Poll

11. As Kosmin and Keysar point out, “Only one in nine Republicans has a secularist outlook compared with one in five Democrats and one in four Independents.”