Just 3% of the "nones" call themselves atheists, a small bump from 2007, when 1.5% did the same.
The census also revealed that 66.8% of respondents consider themselves Christian, and 10.5% atheists.
During a rambling question about hospitals, a voter mentioned that even evangelicals and atheists could agree.
Of course, people of various faiths, agnostics and atheists make questionable statements all the time.
If nothing else, his book should help bring the atheists out of the closet.
But Mr Smith said a change in their policy banning atheists was not being considered.
There were around 13.4 million atheists and agnostics, up 49% over the same period.
Evangelical atheists who want to convert the world to unbelief are copying religion at its dogmatic worst.
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The Freethinkers say that they are not necessarily atheists, but include agnostics, secular humanists, deists and Unitarian Universalists.
"A secular state does not mean that the people are atheists, " Erdogan told a television show in Cairo.
There are more atheists in this country than there are Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists combined and doubled.
It is not just the anti-religious, agnostics or atheists who want to keep religion out of the office.
He has sparred frequently with many outspoken atheists who argue that science is inherently corrosive of all religious belief.
Mr Dawkins dreams of a day when atheists are as well organised and influential as Christian conservatives have become.
Such a large drop in religiosity is startling, but the data on atheists are in line with other polling.
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And in rejecting religious belief, a lot of atheists make the same mistake.
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The same imperative is felt to this day when atheists compare religion to fairytales and believers pen apologetics in response.
"It used to be said in World War II that there were no atheists in foxholes, " he wrote in 1973.
We have enough troubles being attacked by the Atheists-Evolutionists and the Theistic Evolutionists, without having to address our own Creationists.
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Atheists, by contrast, have nothing to look forward to after death, so they might be expected to cling to life.
But more bad news for atheists is contained in an article by demographer Eric Kaufman in this month's Prospect magazine.
Somehow Democrats have become the party of both Jews and Muslims, while becoming the favored party of atheists, too.
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While Pew's study will likely cheer the hearts of atheists, the rapid rise of religiously unaffiliated Americans hasn't necessarily spawned a generation of infidels.
Nagel has a history of writing critical essays and reviews about the limits of materialism and the deficiencies of the New Atheists.
Atheists and agnostics can have easy access to people espousing religious agendas.
That is a belief that Muslims and atheists alike would contest, but Benedict used his well-honed Germanic intellect to argue it with vigour.
Although we are both Christians, the list is long of ardent atheists who appreciate the Bible's educational heft while rejecting its spiritual claims.
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After being isolated for a long time, new atheists find themselves in phalanx with dozens or hundreds of others who think like they do.
Last month, the Scout Association announced its own consultation on an alternative Scout promise for atheists who are unwilling to pledge a "duty to God".
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