Survey: Atheism continues to rise around the world

There’s a new WIN-Gallup survey out on global religious adherence, and the news for atheists is predictably (but nonetheless reassuringly) good, as this excerpt from the 2012 Global Atheism Index reveals:

That’s right: Not only are more and more people becoming (or feeling safe to out themselves as) atheists all around the world – thus entailing that religion’s grip on society is conversely loosening, slowly but quite surely – but Canada still whoops the U.S.’s butt! Knew we were the best.

(Wait – 12^th still counts as “the best”, right?)

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