Posted on 01/09/2023 6:24:03 PM PST by marshmallow
Denver, Colo., Jan 9, 2023 / 16:00 pm The percentage of Americans who attend religious services is now “significantly lower” than before the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among young people and other groups identified as less likely to regularly attend, a new survey indicates.
“The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted much of American society, including religious worship,” said a January 2023 report on the survey “Faith After the Pandemic” from the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life.
“Rather than completely upending established patterns, the pandemic accelerated ongoing trends in religious change. Young people, those who are single, and self-identified liberals ceased attending religious services at all at much higher rates than other Americans did.”
“At least in terms of religious attendance, the pandemic appears to have pushed out those who had maintained the weakest commitments to regular attendance,” the American Enterprise Institute report said.
As of spring 2022, 33% of Americans said they never attend religious services, up from 25% before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic in March 2020. Religious affiliation, though, is largely unchanged, according to the survey.
The results come from researchers at the NORC at the University of Chicago, who conducted the 2022 American Religious Benchmark Survey on behalf of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
The pre-pandemic responses about religious practice came from 9,425 randomly selected interviewees who participated in NORC’s AmeriSpeak panel from the period 2018 to March 2020. The same interviewees were surveyed again from February to April 2022.
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I don’t think it’s just because of covid - the church has been failing the ‘body’ of believers for years now.
This was the intent by secular authorities, to remove churches as influence factors upon society. So, they banned going to church.
Many churches have stopped being faithful, in order to curry favour with society.
Two words: ‘Social Justice’ ... I left after 36 years
Exactly. All part of the plan.
COVID and the stupid and scared Bishops accelerated it. When you give people outs they will take it. Like parking lot masses, streaming masses, sacraments don’t matter, removal of Holy Water, worry about this life is more important than the next, etc...
It was the bishops’ lousy response that did it…closing the churches, prohibiting people from going to mass or even prohibiting priests from celebrating, making people think watching a zoom was the same as being there, supporting government tyranny and never defending us.
And it started with the evil Bishop of Rome, who have never met a dictatorial, immoral government program he didn’t like.
K-Love songs sung by “Praise Bands”, anemic preaching, no genuine fellowship, often no Bible studies...just loud music and focus on putting rumps in pews.
OK, I’m getting a little cynical in my old age. We moved during COVID and haven’t found a church to call home since moving. We’ve driven 25+ miles to churches. We’ve gone to some for a couple of months and left when no one still knew who we were....
I believe that was one of the goals of the Covidians. Plus, there is the ongoing wokeification of all the churches.
I personally don’t attend church because it has been 20 years since I was a fairly regular church goer and not once has anybody from any of the churches I had attended ever called to ask why I haven’t dropped by just to say hello.
It’s heartbreaking, but I take their actions as revealings as to their level of caring whether I was there or not.
All you said is true. This new age stuff was killing churches a decade before Covid.
After 7 years of desperate searching we finally found a good, traditional church. And only 10 minutes from home. The interesting thing is that the pastor isn’t even 30 years old.
I personally don’t attend church because it has been 20 years since I was a fairly regular church goer and not once has anybody from any of the churches I had attended ever called to ask why I haven’t dropped by just to say hello.
It’s heartbreaking, but I take their actions as revealings as to their level of caring whether I was there or not.
I’m too old to work to keep relationships going without some effort on the other party to keep things going.
Yes. After the 1950s. That’s a long time.
On a typical Sunday morning in the period from 1955-58, almost half of all Americans were attending church – the highest percentage in U.S. history. During the 1950s, nationwide church membership grew at a faster rate than the population, from 57 percent of the U.S. population in 1950 to 63.3 percent in 1960.Jun 16, 1997
Source: usc.edu
Exactly.
I heard a Catholic radio caller ask the host if Pelosi and Biden shouldn’t be banned as they are in violation due to promoting and funding abortions by tax money. Host said they didn’t actually take part in a physical abortion procedure and thus get some leeway!
And on a local Jewish Reform Temple site they sprang into action the day after Roe was overturned. Website said “don’t let anyone tell you abortion is murder. It definitely is not.” Wanted to get laws passed to give women unrestricted abortion rights (it happened in Nov., 2022). They sent a caravan of members to DC for a protest the next weekend.
Interesting facts in this link:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/21/where-major-religious-groups-stand-on-abortion/
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“It was never ‘if’ you went to church rather ‘what’ church you went to.”
The first time we shopped for groceries after moving to TN, the clerk asked where we went to church, not DO you go to church. She invited us to her church. Then people in line started inviting us to their churches. It was cute.
Yet for the past 25 years on this site I was hearing from the Trads that there Churches were “overflowing” with large families - well those trad kids didn’t exactly turn this country Right now didn’t they?
Yes.
Kids now watching the Andy Griffith Show would say to a parent: “Why do Andy and Barney get dressed up on Sundays and go to that building in Mayberry?” “Don’t know.”
Yes that’s just the way it was. Today you’re fortunate if anyone in line speaks to you at all!
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