U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious

[Shawnster]

Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before

 

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious/

 

The recent decrease in religious beliefs and behaviors is largely attributable to the “nones” – the growing minority of Americans, particularly in the Millennial generation, who say they do not belong to any organized faith.

 

The share of U.S. adults who say they believe in God, while still remarkably high by comparison with other advanced industrial countries, has declined modestly, from approximately 92% to 89%, since Pew Research Center conducted its first Landscape Study in 2007.

 

 Altogether, the religiously unaffiliated (also called the “nones”) now account for 23% of the adult population, up from 16% in 2007.

 

 In some ways, the basic patterns in religion and politics in the United States remain unchanged. Some religious groups (including evangelical Protestants and Mormons) are generally supportive of the Republican Party, while other groups (including Jews, religious “nones,” Hispanic Catholics and members of churches that belong to the historically black Protestant tradition) tend to be more Democratic in their partisan allegiances.

 

In fact, religious “nones” are now more numerous among Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults than are Catholics, evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants or members of the historically black Protestant tradition. The religiously unaffiliated also are growing within the GOP, though not as quickly, and they remain far outnumbered by evangelicals and less numerous than Catholics or mainline Protestants within the Republican coalition.

[Peanuts]

The last census here in the UK was in 2011. There was a big jump in those without a religion. This excerpt from the findings is interesting ( full article https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-belief-some-surveys-and-statistics/ )

According to the 2011 UK Census, those of no religion are the second largest belief group, about three and a half times as many as all the non-Christian religions put together – at 26.13% of the population. 16,038,229 people said they had ‘no religion’ with a further 4,406,032 (7.18%) not stating a religion. 58.81% described their religion as Christian and 7.88% as some non-Christian religion. This represented a massive change from the 2001 Census, where 15.5% of the population recorded having no religion, and 72% of the population reported being Christian.

However, in a poll conducted by YouGov in March 2011 on behalf of the BHA, when asked the census question ‘What is your religion?’, 61% of people in England and Wales ticked a religious box (53.48% Christian and 7.22% other) while 39% ticked ‘No religion’. When the same sample was asked the follow-up question ‘Are you religious?’, only 29% of the same people said ‘Yes’ while 65% said ‘No’, meaning over half of those whom the census would count as having a religion said they were not religious.

Less than half (48%) of those who ticked ‘Christian’ said they believed that Jesus Christ was a real person who died and came back to life and was the son of God.

Asked when they had last attended a place of worship for religious reasons, most people in England and Wales (63%) had not attended in the past year: 43% of people last attended over a year ago and 20% of people had never attended. Only 9% of people reported having attended a place of worship within the last week.

[Tbs77]

Seems like this pew information and Awake for November is in sync.. No boy band pun intended.

[Dustparticle]

 I told an elder over 30 years ago that many will not believe in God before the end comes and it is heading that way.

[Dustparticle]

 Look at this

 

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/christians-are-at-war-with-one-another-as-americans-leave-the-church-in-droves

[Sally]

Study claims religious kids are meaner, less generous

Nov. 07, 2015 - 5:47 - Shillue: Researcher obviously hostile to religion and rigged his study to draw his pre-determined conclusion

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4601198539001/study-claims-religious-kids-are-meaner-less-generous-/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips

[Dustparticle]

Study claims religious kids are meaner, less generous

Nov. 07, 2015 - 5:47 - Shillue: Researcher obviously hostile to religion and rigged his study to draw his pre-determined conclusion

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4601198539001/study-claims-religious-kids-are-meaner-less-generous-/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips

 

 

 And soon they will say that kids who play violent video games. watch demonic movies are the greatest kids on earth.