SEATTLE -- More people than ever are opting out from under a theological roof altogether. In 2001, more than 29.4 million Americans said they had no religion -- more than double the number in 1990, and more than Methodists, Lutherans and Episcopalians all added up -- according to the American Religious Identification Survey 2001 (ARIS). People with no religion now account for 14 percent of the nation, up from 8 percent when The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, authors of the ARIS, conducted its first survey of religion in 1990. Today the range stretches from 3 percent with no religion in North Dakota to 25 percent in Washington state. The six states with the highest percentage of people saying they have no religion are all Western states, with the exception of Vermont at 22 percent. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll in January also finds traces of this shift away from religious identity: 50 percent of Americans call themselves religious, down from 54 percent in December 1999. But an additional 33 percent call themselves "spiritual but not religious," up from 30 percent, and about one in 10 say they are neither.