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No God But Atheists Want a Church

May 4, 2008

he fastest-growing faith in America is no faith at all. And now some atheists think they need a church, says an article by Sean McManus in New York magazine.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the results of its “Religious Landscape” survey in February and found that 16 % of Americans have no religious affiliation. The number is even greater among young people: 25 % of 18- to 29-year-olds now identify with no religion, up from 11 % in a similar survey in 1986.

For most of its modern history, atheism has existed as a kind of civil-rights movement. Groups like American Atheists have functioned primarily as litigants in the fight for church-state separation, not as atheist social clubs. “Atheists are self-reliant, self-sufficient, independent people who don’t feel like they need an organization,” says Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists for the past thirteen years. “They’re so independent that if they want to get involved, they usually don’t join an organization—they start their own.”
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