I know for a fact that my parents claim to be christian on any census info despite not going to church at any point in their life, and not believing in any version of the christian god. According to them, celebrating Christmas is enough to be christian. People like that are going to distort the results.
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I know for a fact that my parents claim to be christian on any census info despite not going to church at any point in their life, and not believing in any version of the christian god. According to them, celebrating Christmas is enough to be christian. People like that are going to distort the results.
I'm guessing a lot more people would say they're "not religious".
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Wonder how many people answered that meaning "not christian".
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Are they only reporting people who specify “I am an atheist” or are they including agnostic etc?
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Sorry, I meant the “actual results” methodology, not the polling methodology.
Looking at Pew Forums numbers, the actual results are probably just for self-IDed atheists (not including agnostics).