So this would seem to say:
America is still a predominantly Christian nation, but it's becoming both less Christian and less religious, according to the results of the new American Religious Identification Survey.
According to the poll, which came out today, the percentage of Americans who define themselves as Christian has dropped from 86 percent in 1990 to 76 percent in 2008.
In one of the most dramatic shifts, 15 percent of Americans now say they have no religion -- a figure that's almost doubled in 18 years. Americans with no religious preference are now larger than all other major religious groups except Catholics and Baptists.
Or one of the more toxic brands of irrationality may be becoming less fashionable, anyway. But I don't think we can start celebrating a victory for reason until atheism manages to outpoll Wicca:
Meanwhile, the number of atheists, while still small, has nearly doubled from 900,000 to 1.6 million. ... Some 2.8 million Americans now say they identify with new religious movements like Wicca, paganism or spiritualists.
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