re: #1 Kragar
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson complains: Courts listen to non-religious minorities
• A 2004 BBC poll showed the number of people in the U.S. who don’t believe in a god to be about 9–10%.
• A 2008 Gallup poll showed that a smaller 6% of the U.S. population believed that no god or universal spirit exists.
• The most recent ARIS report, released March 9, 2009, found in 2008, 34.2 million Americans (15.0%) claim no religion, of which 1.6% explicitly describes itself as atheist (0.7%) or agnostic (0.9%), nearly double the previous 2001 ARIS survey figure of 0.9%.
• The highest occurrence of “nones”, according to the 2008 ARIS report, reside in Vermont, with 34% surveyed.
• According to a study conducted by Gallup in May 2010, 16% of Americans declared they have no religious affiliation.
Roughly anywhere from 6 to 16 percent are non-religious which can include atheists. If one were to stick with the lower figure of 1.6% I would like to remind them that Jews make up 1.2%, Episcopalian/Anglicans at 1.1% and Mormons are at 1.4%.