Secular movement

The secular movement refers to a social and political trend in the United States, beginning in the early years of the 21st century, that has seen atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers, and other nonreligious and nontheistic Americans grow in both numbers and visibility. The secular movement that has occurred in America has seen a sharp increase in the number who identify as religiously unaffiliated, a number that has grown from under ten percent in the 1990s to twenty percent in 2013. The trend is especially prevalent among young people, with about one in three Americans under age thirty identifying as religiously unaffiliated, a figure that has nearly tripled since the 1990s.