Nevertheless, Schwadel said, these unaffiliated individuals seem to be dropping out of religious institutions that they were previously ambivalent about. People who feel strongly about their faith are as numerous as ever. “The proportion of Americans who say they have a very strong religious affiliation over time is very stable,” Schwadel told LiveScience.
As humanists celebrate the reality that Christians are falling away from church affiliation, they also assumed they were falling away from their faith. That’s a lie.