The most recent Australian census figures show that the number of non-believers is growing.   The proportion of people who reported no religious affiliation grew to 22.3 per cent in 2011 from 18.7 per cent from the last census in 2006. At first glance that would seem to be a pointer to the growing secularisation of society.   There are however a few things that we should keep in mind. First of all, in the lead up to the census atheist and humanist associations waged a fairly intense campaign for people to mark their census form as having “no religion”.  ...