Important Takeaways:
- Rise of the ‘Nones’: As of January 2024, 28% of U.S. adults identify as religiously unaffiliated, surpassing both Catholics (23%) and evangelical Protestants (24%).
- Growth Over Time: The percentage of ‘Nones’ has increased from 16% in 2007 to 28% in 2024, indicating a significant shift in religious affiliation over the past decade.
- Diverse Beliefs: The ‘Nones’ encompass atheists, agnostics, and individuals who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”
- Belief in Higher Power: While many ‘Nones’ do not affiliate with organized religion, most believe in God or a higher power, though they seldom attend religious services.
- Perception of Religion: A majority of ‘Nones’ acknowledge that religion can have both positive and negative effects on society.
- Political Implications: The growing number of ‘Nones’ could influence American politics, as they tend to be more liberal and Democratic, contrasting with the traditionally conservative evangelical constituency.
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Deuteronomy 28:20 ““The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.”
Important Takeaways:
- About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
- The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing. The latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is 6 percentage points higher than it was five years ago and 10 points higher than a decade ago.
- In addition, the share of U.S. adults who say they pray on a daily basis has been trending downward, as has the share who say religion is “very important” in their lives.
- Self-identified Christians of all varieties make up 63% of the adult population … down from 75% a decade ago
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Rev 2:4-5 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Important Takeaways:
- About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
- The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing.
- United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is 6 percentage points higher than it was five years ago and 10 points higher than a decade ago.
- Currently, about three-in-ten U.S. adults (29%) are religious “nones” – people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” when asked about their religious identity.
- Recent declines within Christianity are concentrated among Protestants. Now at 40%
- Catholics now 21%
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