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All three networks assigned a reporter to the latest American Religious Identification Survey. Godlessness was the top line. Here is Anne Thompson's lead at NBC: "A shrinking percentage of Americans identify themselves as members of organized religions." Mark Strassmann at CBS put it this way: "Across American denominations, the faithful are fleeing." For ABC's A Closer Look, Dan Harris acknowledged that America "is still a predominantly Christian country but it has apparently become both less Christian and less religious."
Specifically, the proportion of non-believers has almost doubled since 1990 from 8% to 15%. We irreligious are expanding our ranks at the same speed as born-again Christians. ABC's Harris called them the "one major growth area in American Christianity." Evangelicals, during the same period, grew from 5% to 12% of the population.
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