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Americans were asked "What percentage of American adults _____" compared with the true proportion.
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Wait, atheism is that low in the US?? 38.9% of Australians indicated no religion at the last census, I knew we had more but never expected a whole order of magnitude difference!
That number is wrong.
28% of people in the US don't have a religion. People here just don't like the word atheist.
Not having a religion =/= atheist in surveys like this.
Believing there is no god is still a belief. Not having a religion means you dont subscribe to any belief
Atheists don't necessarily believe there is no god. Not believing that there is is not the same as believing that there's not
I think we are saying the same thing
I think I get what you're saying. As far as the poll goes, it calls "a belief in the nonexistence of any gods" "atheist," and it calls "a lack of any religious beliefs" "no religion."
I just wanted to clarify that the poll is incorrect, and that "atheist" encompasses both sets of people