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From: Daniel Crevier <>
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Subject: atheist millionaires
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:05:58 -0500

According to the Wikipedia page quoted by Kennita,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism#North_America

even though only 0.4% of the US population "positively claim to be 
atheists", between 5 and 10% "don't believe in a god." Further, there seems 
to be a fairly strong negative correlation between wealth and religiosity: 
the richer you are, the more likely you are to be an atheist.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_10/012346.php

If say 7.5% of the US population don't believe in a god, then a larger 
fraction of millionaires should share this opinion. From the general 
appearance of the curves in the above link, 15% or more (perhaps a lot more) 
is quite plausible. Assuming 2.5 million American millionaires, as Kennita 
does, 15% yields 375,000 atheist (or at least unbeliever)millionaires, for 
which neither religion nor cost should be a disincentive to cryonics.

Yet I don't believe that extensive advertizing to that class of people would 
yield dramatic results: cultural and social disincentives are also very 
strong.

Daniel Crevier

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