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This article came to may attention this morning. Nones (not necessarily atheists as the article wants to spin it) now edge out evangelicals as a voting bloc for the first time.
The percentage of voters who opine that they want their presidential candidates to have "firm religious convictions" is also steadily declining over the past couple of voting cycles. Of course Trump is free of firm religious convictions (really, is free of ANY religious convictions) and evangelicals support him anyway. Clinton's Methodist background is "firmer" than that but is hardly front and center in her campaign rhetoric.
It seems to me that candidates had better start addressing this if they want to win in coming election cycles. It is clear that going forward they have more to fear from disenfranchised nones than from disenfranchised believers -- even evangelicals.
It will come. As more and more people realise that they will not turn to dust if they 'come out' and say that they don't believe the flood will gather pace and become unstoppable.
That article starts off with a very misleading headline: atheist are not a "rising voter block" as they still represent a very small part of the population. "None religious" people are, by and large, still believers in something, just not organized religion.
According the the American Religious Identification Survey (the largest and most comprehensive of such surveys), 51% of nine religious are either absolutely sure there is a God (27%) or sure there is some kind of higher power if not a personal God (24%)
That being said, anyone with a brain would be happy to see religion divorced from politics in this country. In the words of Thomas Jefferson: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
In the Soviet Union the absolute majority of people were "nones". That did not make them wiser or better in any way, as regards politics.
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I like it. The Gnomes are on the mark. Some call them Dwarves, of course.
