UNITED STATES
USA Today
9:30AM EST October 9. 2012 – Rebecca Cardone, 21, who grew up Methodist in Texas, is president of the student body at California Lutheran University.
But don’t call her Protestant or even Christian. Cardone is one of the new “Nones” — atheists, agnostics and folks like her who believe “nothing in particular.”
“I like the ambiguity” of going without a label,” she says. “I prefer to stress the importance of acting with compassion rather than choosing a predetermined system of beliefs.”
The big news about people with no religious identity, the Nones, isn’t that they’re No. 2 now in the USA, 19.6% and climbing.
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