More Americans Have No Religious Preferences

ÔÇ£ÔǪTwenty percent of American adults said in 2012 that they had no religious preferenceÔǪ The percentage answering ÔÇÿno religionÔÇÖ was 18 percent two years earlier in 2010, 14 percent in 2000, and 8 percent in 1990. Preferring no religion is not atheism which is still very rare; in 2012, just 3 percent of Americans said they did not believe in GodÔǪÔÇØ