08-30-2006, 04:40 AM
Quote:About 1% of the population are avowed atheists (maybe it's higher in Holland)
The best I could come up with on a quick web search (no idea of the validity of the data -- as the article says it's extremely difficult to assess rates of relgious belief) was
http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zu...an/atheism.html
which gives 3-9% for athiest/agnostic/nonbelievers in the US and 39-44% in the Netherlands.
Not sure, though, what you mean by 'avowed atheists'. Would you would draw a distinction between, say, 'Christians' and 'avowed Christians', and where woud you lump non-religiously practicing 'agnostics'?