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Poll: Nones Outnumber Catholics
Church Militant ^ | October 18, 2019 | Bradley Eli

Posted on 10/20/2019 1:08:09 PM PDT by ebb tide

Poll: Nones Outnumber Catholics

More than 1 in 4 US adults are atheist, agnostic or irreligious

DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Irreligious adults — called "nones" — now outnumber adult Catholics in the United States, according to a recent poll.

A report by Pew Research Center released Thursday is showing that 26% percent of America's adult population identify as nones, a group composed of atheists, agnostics and irreligious. This dwarfs the mere 20% of U.S. adults claiming to be Catholic.

The poll found the percentage of U.S. adults professing to be nones surged in just one decade from 17% in 2009 to 26% in 2019. During the same period, the adult Catholic population fell from 23% to its current level of 20%.

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Driving the decline of U.S. Catholics is the rapid exodus of Hispanics from the Catholic Church. Fifty-seven percent of Hispanics in the United States identified as Catholic 10 years ago; only 47% do today. This is despite the massive push by U.S. bishops to welcome Hispanic immigrants.

The quality of nones has also taken a turn for the worse. Some nones simply describe their religion as "nothing in particular." But the survey found the number of atheists in this group doubled over the past decade and the number of agnostics nearly doubled.

Democrats were becoming nones in droves, according to the poll. While Republicans jettisoned Christianity at a rate of 13% over the past decade, 31% of Democrats swelled the ranks of nones.

Young people too made the greatest shift. The survey found that of those over 40, 14% left their Christian heritage behind. Those under 40, however, uprooted their Christian faith twice as fast at 29%.

The overall Christian population fell in 10 years from 77% to 65% of the adult population, said the poll. Protestants sustained greater losses than Catholics. In 2009, 51% of the U.S. adult population identified as Protestant. Today, just 43% do so.

Religious attendance amongst those claiming to be Christian remained steady, as per the survey. 

"Today, 62% of Christians say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month, which is identical to the share who said the same in 2009," said the report.

The survey also broke down the dwindling Christian membership of past generations as follows:

While 1 in 10 Millenials identify with non-Christian faiths, said the report, 4 in 10 profess to be nones.

The fact that Americans are becoming less religious doesn't bode well for the future of the country, according to Attorney General William Barr. During a talk at Notre Dame on Oct. 11, Barr recalled how the Founding Fathers held up religious-minded people as the underpinnings of a free society:

In short, in the Framers' view, free government was only suitable and sustainable for a religious people — a people who recognized that there was a transcendent moral order antecedent to both the state and man-made law and who had the discipline to control themselves according to those enduring principles.

Barr's talk was aimed at preserving religious liberty in this country for those upholding Judeo-Christian ethics. But as more and more Christians are giving up their former religious beliefs to become nones, they'll have fewer Christian values to defend.



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KEYWORDS: francischurch; modernism; trends; unchurched; vcii
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Driving the decline of U.S. Catholics is the rapid exodus of Hispanics from the Catholic Church. Fifty-seven percent of Hispanics in the United States identified as Catholic 10 years ago; only 47% do today. This is despite the massive push by U.S. bishops to welcome Hispanic immigrants.
1 posted on 10/20/2019 1:08:09 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

You could see a Latino ‘exit’ even in the early 1990s going on...there’s simply no shock to this statistic.


2 posted on 10/20/2019 1:15:15 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ebb tide

Jeepers, Batman ... ya’s gots duh pweist fondlings like Biden, duh pastors complainin’ dey cain’t git d’er jetplanes no mo’, ya’s got a kid pitchin’ a fit at duh U.N., an’ duh folks d’at keep askin’ when gawd’s gonna git Hillary wid nuttin’ no how bin dun yit, so’s whacha eggspect!?!?!?


3 posted on 10/20/2019 1:25:10 PM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: ebb tide

So, the churches, and particularly the Christian churches, are going to have to actively recruit members, possibly with the aid of charismatic speakers working out of tent revivals and hall rentals, and with a repackaging of the messaging they are sending out over the airways, and not just on Sunday mornings. Billy Graham, once a shining beacon, is no longer with us to project the message of hope and redemption through evangelism. Though he created the Billy Graham Evangelical association, supposedly to carry on his work, no true successor to his style and drawing power has yet appeared.

Charlatans and hucksters we have in plenty, but their very presence dilutes and obscures the very real message that is out there, the breath of God, and the whole transcendent experience. The words of the Old Testament reveal that this abandonment of God is not at all a new phenomenon, but as plagued the affairs of men over and over.

Usually with some pretty drastic resolution.


4 posted on 10/20/2019 1:27:46 PM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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To: pepsionice; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Gamecock; HarleyD; Luircin; aMorePerfectUnion; boatbums; ...
Various older stats relative to this issue:


5 posted on 10/20/2019 1:33:35 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Terry L Smith

Proper English please. Thank-you!


6 posted on 10/20/2019 1:50:10 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ebb tide

Doesn’t help when the Pope is a None.


7 posted on 10/20/2019 2:42:48 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: ebb tide
Since at least half of the people who when surveyed during the past forty years claimed to be Catholic are functionally identical to "nones", and the same goes for non-Catholics who say they don't believe in organized religion but are Christian, there are no surprises in these numbers.
8 posted on 10/20/2019 3:00:05 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: alloysteel

Have you noticed how big Halloween is this year? Bigger than Christmas. And much more Satanic in what is being displayed.


9 posted on 10/20/2019 3:37:34 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ebb tide

And the largest group of “nones” is comprised of former Catholics (like me) per an earlier Pew poll.


10 posted on 10/20/2019 3:51:36 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lucky)
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To: ebb tide
I wonder what God thinks about the 'nones'?

I personally don't care what any one else believes or doesn't believe.

I know that without my belief in God, I'd have taken the night train long ago.

He gives me comfort that I don't deserve.

11 posted on 10/20/2019 5:03:51 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: ebb tide

Amazing that the author didn’t know that there are 20+ other Catholic Churches.

This is a falsehood headline referring to only the United States.

Plus, it doesn’t apply to my local Church, for they are gaining, not losing, numbers of people.


12 posted on 10/20/2019 6:10:04 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Clemenza
I hope you have good values, good ethics, integrity, and a purpose to life.....

I can't help but think that people that do not believe in God have a depressed look on life.....

why be good?.....why be a faithful spouse?...why not be a child molester because there are NO CONSEQUENCES and no reason to have guilt....

but then again the whole universe just appeared...*sigh*

13 posted on 10/20/2019 6:20:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Salvation

It’s not a false headline. Since when has Pew been conducting worldwide polls?


14 posted on 10/20/2019 6:41:32 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide

We can thank the Lavender Mafia for a large part in making this happen.


15 posted on 10/20/2019 6:46:18 PM PDT by MSF BU
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To: ebb tide
More than 1 in 4 US adults are atheist, agnostic or irreligious

And the other 75% are known to lie a lot!

16 posted on 10/20/2019 7:03:32 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salvation

This is a falsehood headline referring to only the United States.

Did you not bother to read the sub-headline?

More than 1 in 4 US adults are atheist, agnostic or irreligious


17 posted on 10/20/2019 7:03:46 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: USS Alaska
I wonder what God thinks about the 'nones'?

I know He thinks!!


2 Peter 3:9 King James Version (KJV)

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.

18 posted on 10/20/2019 7:05:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: USS Alaska
I personally don't care what any one else believes or doesn't believe.

MATTHEW 9:36 KJV
“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.”


Philippians 2:5 KJV
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:


He gives me comfort that I don't deserve.

Spread this comfort around. It'll do you good.

Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls.

James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

19 posted on 10/20/2019 7:14:46 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide

Catholic education has largely been a failure.


20 posted on 10/20/2019 7:33:10 PM PDT by Phillyred
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