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Fewer Than Half of Americans May Be Christian By 2070, According to New Projections
The Roys Report ^ | September 13, 2022 | Bob Smietana

Posted on 09/14/2022 8:04:26 AM PDT by fwdude

America has long prided itself on being a country where people can choose whatever religion they like. The majority has long chosen Christianity.

By 2070, that may no longer be the case. If current trends continue, Christians could make up less than half of the population — and as little as a third— in 50 years. Meanwhile, the so-called nones — or the religiously unaffiliated — could make up close to half of the population. And the percentage of Americans who identify as Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and other non-Christian faiths could double.

Those are among the major findings of a new report from the Pew Research Center regarding America’s religious future—a future where Christianity, though diminished, persists while non-Christian faiths grow amid rising secularization.

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I greet this news with mixed reaction. On the surface, it looks depressing. But then I think about all of the professing "Christians" who are as fake as a three-dollar bill, who held their profession when Christianity was easy in American culture, and know that this is a winnowing, a weeding out, of the fakes.
1 posted on 09/14/2022 8:04:26 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

A 10% population percentage of true, biblical believers would be far more effective in society than 90% of fake, “mainstream” Christians of the brand we know today.


2 posted on 09/14/2022 8:05:49 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: fwdude

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

John Adams

But what did he know he was only, an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.


3 posted on 09/14/2022 8:09:05 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: Skwor

He was nobody

Chris Wray would arrest him today using petty charges and fake evidence


4 posted on 09/14/2022 8:13:49 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: fwdude

I’m not sure it will be legal to be Christian by 2070.


5 posted on 09/14/2022 8:13:59 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: fwdude

Fewer than half MAY be Christian? How does this crap make it to print.


6 posted on 09/14/2022 8:17:19 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: fwdude

I would say it’s going to drop to 0% instantly, very very soon.


7 posted on 09/14/2022 8:17:28 AM PDT by Safrguns
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I’m not sure it will be legal to be Christian by 2070.

I'm pretty sure that the U.S. won't be around by 2070. We'll either be a province of China, or the Millennial Kingdom. I'm betting the latter.

8 posted on 09/14/2022 8:18:02 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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I would say it’s going to drop to 0% instantly, very very soon.

Point taken.

9 posted on 09/14/2022 8:18:38 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: fwdude

Please. Fewer than half of Americans are functionally Christian right now.


10 posted on 09/14/2022 8:19:50 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: fwdude

Being Christian is in the heart....and it is the majority of the people in our country. It doesn’t require Mass on Sunday or a stipend...it requires goodness.


11 posted on 09/14/2022 8:21:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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Please. Fewer than half of Americans are functionally Christian right now.

I know. but this poll probably just measures professions only.

I read a poll recently that 30% of EVANGELICAL Christians approve of same-sex "mirage." That tells you a lot about how genuine they are.

12 posted on 09/14/2022 8:22:19 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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More than 85% of Americans may be Christian by 2070.

Two can play that game.


13 posted on 09/14/2022 8:22:38 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: fwdude

Yep, beheadings in the streets, Taliban controlling the courts. Thank you Ted Kennedy. We are leaving some f’d up world for our kids.


14 posted on 09/14/2022 8:23:22 AM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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To: circlecity

There won’t be an America in 50 years, at least that we would recognize.


15 posted on 09/14/2022 8:23:41 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: fwdude
Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV)

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

16 posted on 09/14/2022 8:28:56 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: fwdude

Yeah and right around that time zero Americans will be Christian because as a thief in the night, Jesus will have caught those in Christ up to meet him in the sky and will have taken them to Heaven (1 Thess. 4:16-17).

You just don’t want to be left behind because what happens next on this earth is beyond horrific.


17 posted on 09/14/2022 8:33:35 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Being Christian is in the heart....and it is the majority of the people in our country. It doesn’t require Mass on Sunday or a stipend...it requires goodness.

No. It requires the righteousness of Christ.

And, to my mind, those who have that -- i.e., on account of their trusting entirely in the finished work of Jesus on the cross for their salvation and their eternal life -- constitute far, far less than the "majority of the people in our country."

18 posted on 09/14/2022 8:34:34 AM PDT by DSH
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To: DoughtyOne

I think you’re closer.

What the “experts don’t know is there is coming a great worldwide revival and many will come to the Lord just before he comes to take his own out of the world and into Heaven keeping his own from the unimaginably horrific seven years on earth to follow.


19 posted on 09/14/2022 8:37:02 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: fwdude; Roman_War_Criminal

I have no doubt that fewer than half Americans are actually Christians in the first place, no matter what they claim for religious affiliation.


20 posted on 09/14/2022 8:37:31 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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