Posted on 04/17/2021 12:53:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
African American churchgoers are more likely to politically identify as Democrat than the overall African American population, according to a report by the Barna Group.
In the report released Thursday, Barna found that while around two-thirds of all black adults considered themselves Democrat, a little over three-quarters of churchgoing blacks said the same.
Sixty-seven percent of all African American adults said they were Democrat, while 19% said independent, 8% said they had no affiliation, and 6% said Republican.
By contrast, 76% of African American churchgoers said they were Democrat, while 14% said they were independent, 5% said they were Republican and 5% said they had no affiliation.
Both groups are far more identified with the Democratic Party than the general U.S. population, in which 43% said they were Democrat, 36% said they were Republican, 16% said they were independent, and 5% held no affiliation.
Data for the report drew in part from a survey of 1,083 black adults, plus 822 black churchgoers, conducted April 22 – May 6 of last year, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3%.
The Barna survey also found that among African Americans surveyed, there was a comparable decline in affiliation with Christianity among the generations.
Eighty-six percent of surveyed black Boomers identified as Christian, compared to 75% of black Gen Xers, 65% of black millennials, and 67% of black Gen Zers.
The comparable percentages of Christian belief among African Americans who are millennial and Gen Z reflect other research indicating a slowing of the rise of the religiously unaffiliated.
Melissa Deckman, a professor at Washington College and affiliated scholar with the Public Religion Research Institute, reported in February 2020 that millennials and Gen Z are “awfully similar” to each other regarding “religious affiliation and religious behavior.”
“… the percentage of Gen Z Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated is similar to the millennials found in PRRI’s 2016 American Values Survey,” wrote Deckman in a report published by Religion in Public.
“In other words, it appears that the rate of younger Americans departing from organized religion is holding steady, so conflating Gen Zers with millennials is not necessarily inappropriate when it comes to religious affiliation—at least so far.”
Comparing Gen Z individuals surveyed last year and millennials surveyed in 2016, Deckman found an equal percentage identifying as religiously unaffiliated, or 38%.
The new Barna report is part of a series that looks at the state of the African American church in the U.S., and was developed in partnership with Black Millennial Cafe, Urban Ministries, Inc., American Bible Society, Compassion International, Gloo, and Lead.NYC.
A previous report based on the data, released in January, found that African American Christians have been increasingly finding more comfort and control by being part of the black church.
In 1996, 50% of black Americans said that being associated with the black church is comforting because it's a place where black people have control over their lives. By 2020, the number of respondents agreeing with that statement increased to 65%.
This is because the pastors are trained, or otherwise inclined, to control their thinking.
I guess social justice is more important than aborted black babies.
Is this article an attempt to split one group of Christians (blacks Christians) from another (conservative Christians)?
It’s always the same old, tired tactics.
Divide the population into as many groups as possible, and get them to hate each other.
This allows the true criminals—the elite—to remain concealed from our view.
Black liberation theology which is a version of Islam is a political cult.
The social welfare set where folks have been trained to do nothing and depend on do gooders for help. The core of the RATS will never change.
Black churchgoers are more likely to be women, often older women, and women are more likely to be Democrat than men.
THIS is sad. Some black churches are failing their faithful. Don’t black churches preach against abortion? How can they vote Democrat?
I don’t believe The Christian Post. Founded in 2004 and located in Washington DC.
Because they allow Democrats to stand in their pulpits during election time.
The group of people you are talking about is a small population.
It's a non issue.
Leave them alone. It's alright.
I wonder if there are any payoffs? I am thinking 30 pieces of silver.
Who pays for the buses of “lost souls to the polls?” We know the black churches aren’t paying for the busloads. I would imagine they have free lunches or dinners and other events to get them to the polls. Some groups is paying for this.
Yep. Propagandizing.
RE: Why is this an issue? The group of people you are talking about is a small population.
But the INFLUENCE these churches have on the black community are disproportionate. If even church going people will vote Democrat, imagine what NON-CHURCHGOING blacks will vote for!
If you can’t even rely on self-professed Christians to vote right ( against the party of abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism, responsible fatherhood, etc. ), then things are NOT ALRIGHT.
What is the difference between independent and non-affiliated?
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