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The<\/span>\u00a0developing data on the religiously unaffiliated and their political leanings is certainly important, and Katherine Stewart is right to raise questions about why this has been ignored by the mainstream media\u00a0and political organizations\u00a0(though not\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0on RD).<\/div>\n
However, her push to characterize the unaffiliated as \u201cunbelievers\u201d and \u201catheists\u201d is refuted by the data to which she refers. By far, as the recent Pew report and other studies have shown, so-called \u201cNones\u201d are believers in God or a higher power (68%), see themselves as religious or spiritual (65%), see religion as having important social value (69%) despite what they see as an excessive focus on power, rules, and politics (68%).\u00a0Nearly half (41%) pray at least weekly.<\/div>\n
So, as it turns out, unbelievers are not, in fact \u201ca large portion of the unaffiliated,\u201d suffering anti-anti-religious persecution.\u00a0They are largely theistic in belief, and relatively traditional, if eclectic and inconsistent, in religious or spiritual practice. To paint Nones as a growing European-style secular\/atheist population is to misread the available data.<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0developing data on the religiously unaffiliated and their political leanings is certainly important, and Katherine Stewart is right to raise questions about why this has been ignored by the mainstream media\u00a0and political organizations\u00a0(though not\u00a0here\u00a0on RD). However, her push to characterize the unaffiliated as \u201cunbelievers\u201d and \u201catheists\u201d is refuted by the data to which she refers. 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