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They don't. Roughly 30% of Americans claim no religious affiliation, and 10% claim to be Atheist or agnostic. However, to answer your question more directly, religion gives people comfort and a sense of certainty in an uncertain world. It also provides social organization, acceptance, a sense of belonging, and structure.
Depending on whose statistics results one reads. I have seen variances between 54 to 60 million as people with no affiliation of religion. I am happy to read that the numbers are growing year by year.
Catholics comprise more than 40% of the population in New York. Protestants are 30% of the population, Jews 8.4%, Muslims 3.5%, Buddhists 1%, and 13% claim no religious affiliation.
A startling amount of Americans-around 80%-claim to be Christian.
According to Wikipedia: "In the 2002 census, 42.8% of the population of Benin were Christian (27.1% Roman Catholic, 5% Celestial Church of Christ, 3.2% Methodist, 7.5% other Christian denominations), 24.4% were Muslim, 17.3% practices Vodun, 6% other traditional local religious groups, 1.9% other religious groups, and 6.5% claim no religious affiliation."
There are many different answers to the question of American church attendance. One study concluded that about 40% of Americans claim to go to church but only about 18% actually attend church regularly.
Sources from organizations like the National Rifle Association and National Whitetail Association claim that somewhere between 1-2 out of every 10 Americans hunt various types of deer.
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