Ryan Burge

It's just people can't identify properly.

So the first two groups, SBNRs and Ninos, 60% of the nuns are in those two groups.

We think those groups are generally more open to religion because we ask them a bunch of questions about their openness to religion.

The bottom two groups are not at all open to religion.

One, we call the duns because that's exactly what they are.

I mean, they're as far from religion as you possibly can be.

Like 1% of them believe in God, less than 1% pray at all, 2% go to church once a year or more.

And then what's wild about this group is we ask people, what happens when you die?

And 77% of the duns say, when I die, my existence ends.

So like they're they don't believe in anything beyond this.

Like we asked about ghosts and spirits and devils and angels and, you know, every spiritual thing we could think of.

And they're like in the five percent to two percent range and believing in that stuff.

Certainly like there's nothing there.

And by the way, they're the oldest of the four groups.

These are like old atheists, you know, like people born in the boomer atheists, in my mind, are the duns.

So the duns are about a third of all nuns are duns.

And then the last category, which is only 10%, I think it might be the most fascinating category.

We call them zealous atheists.

And the way I describe to people, for younger people listening to this, if you go on Reddit's atheist subreddit right now, that's who you're going to see in the atheist subreddit over and over again are people who are atheists and are angry about it and want you to become an atheist too.

So we ask all the nuns, have you tried to convince someone to leave religion in the last 12 months?