"Nones" Who Aren't Pious

Yesterday we posted on the topic "Religion Is Faltering." Today comes an excellent quote on the subject in a Federalist article about the trials of the blue-collar working class, the quote comes from the Pew Research Center.

[T]he number of religiously unaffiliated adults has increased by roughly 19 million since 2007. There are now approximately 56 million religiously unaffiliated adults in the U.S., and this group – sometimes called religious “nones” – is more numerous than either Catholics or mainline Protestants, according to the new survey. Indeed, the unaffiliated are now second in size only to evangelical Protestants among major religious groups in the U.S.

I ask you to excuse the title's wordplay. Try saying it aloud if it doesn't click.