US: How much of your taxes goes to support religion?

Any reference to a spider’s web is purely coincidental. Yeah, right.

If you’re an average US resident, around $230 a year.

Research Report: How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the United States

Ryan T. Cragun, Stephanie Yeager, and Desmond Vega

Council for Secular Humanism.

Australia: Pushy, aggressive New Atheist tactics…

…pay off, apparently.

People professing to have no religion have moved past Anglicans to become the second-largest grouping after Catholics in the 2011 Census.

Almost 4.8 million people said they had no religion, up 29 per cent from 2006, but the number of people not answering the question dropped by 2 per cent. This suggested that more people were claiming a religious identity (including no religion), said Monash University sociology professor Gary Bouma.

The total Christian population is 13.2 million, or 61 per cent, down three percentage points. Catholics have dropped half a percentage point to 25.3 or 5.4 million, Anglicans are down 1.6 percentage points to 3.7 million, while the Uniting Church is down to 5 per cent, or 1.1 million people.

SMH

Take that, accommodationists!

Results like this make my job worthwhile.