Inter-faitheism:

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• Inter-faitheism
• Why Atheists Should be Involved in Inter-faith
  Dialogue

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• When asked to respond to This Group Does Not At
  All Agree with My Vision of American Society,
  atheists ranked the highest at 39.6 (above
  Muslims and Homosexuals).
• When asked to respond to Would Disapprove if My
  Child Wanted to Marry a Member of This Group,
  atheists rank highest at 47.6.
• Atheists As Other Moral Boundaries and
  Cultural Membership in American Society, Penny
  Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann

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• The Nones (no stated religious preference,
  atheist, or agnostic) continue to grow, though at
  a much slower pace than in the 1990s, from 8.2
  in 1990, to 14.1 in 2001, to 15.0 in 2008.

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• 71.6 of people in the United Kingdom and 78.4
  of people in the United States identify
  themselves as Christian.
• 2001 CensusPew Forums Religious Landscape
  Study of 2008

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• 32 of those who identify as secular are
  registered Democrats, and 43 of them are
  registered Independents, while those with lower
  levels of religious intensity generally vote
  Democrat or Independent.
• Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Religion in a
  Free Market (New York Paramount Market, 2006),
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• 2009 Gallup Poll

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• As Kosmin and Keysar point out,
• Only one in nine Republicans has a secularist
  outlook compared with one in five Democrats and
  one in four Independents.

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