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I often wonder if the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated are not much, much higher, but some of the people are still afraid to come out of the closet...
Xtians always like to simultaneously beat their chest about their supposed numbers (and they are often wrong about them, I've noticed - they seem to consistently overestimate, by quite a lot, the percentage of Americans that are xtian) but simultaneously play the DARVO game - while they denigrate and try to ostracize and marginalize everyone not in their little book club, they act like it is THEY who are being "oppressed".
If someone who is agnostic/atheist and has parents like that, or in-laws, etc...and they don't want to be dealing with that all the time, well, I get it. They might just skip going to church and be mostly quiet about their positions on religion. And when they get polled, they might even list themselves as xtian.
Well I'm my case I've had to have multiple surgeries since about '21 to stay alive, and I've been unable to work in the mean time and had to unfortunately move back with them, and pretending to (well they know I've voted blue and hate Fox News) be semi neutral as far as being a "crazy leftist radical".
But I'm about ready to start again soon, but I am not starting the process in the middle of holiday stuff, so hopefully '26 will be the year I can finally start living again. It feels like it's similar in a lot of ways to what LGBT kids must go through while having Republicans for parents.
And given that one of my younger brothers is LGBT, using this same room before he got old enough to get out, he understands completely and says the same thing.