This 2015 snippet highlighted analysis of the 2014 General Social Survey and the rise in Americans reporting no religious preference. Tobin Grant’s Religion News Service analysis described a three-percentage-point increase since 2012 as representing approximately 7.5 million adults.
The headline and figures refer to that historical analysis, rather than current religious-affiliation statistics.
Read a surviving copy of Tobin Grant’s 2015 analysis at U.S. Catholic.
Original Christian Headlines source cited in 2015 (access may be restricted).
Originally posted April 27, 2015. This restored summary preserves the subject and source reference of the original news snippet.