Posted on 07/02/2023 8:29:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Church attendance in the United States is lower than before the coronavirus pandemic, a Gallup News survey found.
“U.S. church attendance has shown a small but noticeable decline compared with what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic,” the survey report states.
The report details:
In the four years before the pandemic, 2016 through 2019, an average of 34 percent of U.S. adults said they had attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the past seven days. From 2020 to the present, the average has been 30 percent, including a 31 percent reading in a May 1-24 survey.
Gallup noted that church attendance levels are roughly 10 percentage points lower than what the pollster measured in 2012 and years prior.
“It is not clear if the pandemic is the cause of the reduced attendance or if the decline is a continuation of trends that were already in motion,” the survey report states. “However, the temporary closure of churches and ongoing COVID-19 avoidance activities did get many Americans out of the habit of attending religious services weekly.”
The survey found that attendance rates since 2020 are lower among nearly every major subgroup besides political liberals and adults with no religious affiliation, groups which already had low attendance levels before the pandemic.
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Does this mean God is dead?
wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with the continual trend of churches pushing the LGBTQIA+++ alphabet soup agenda on their congregations now would it?
No
In the hearts of the country.
You got it. Every major denomination in my area has gone woke, and I refuse to partake in such blasphemy. Had to go to a non-denominational Bible believing church to hear the Word preached properly.
I suspect that many of these preachers in the major denominations only care about their pensions and paychecks and won’t push back at all on the woke nonsense coming from the higher ups.
well, the church I was going to went that direction, along with the main church they are “sister” to. Blows me away, but I guess I saw the writing on the wall when covid hit.
Not at my house; I can’t get enough of church. Sadly, attendance is low for our town as a whole. Of 3400 residents, with around 15 churches, I’d estimate not more than four or five hundred people attend church, including children. There are, of course, Christians who don’t attend. I have noticed that the church down the street from us, the most popular one, which pre-pandemic had a nearly packed parking lot, now has probably about a third as many cars, if that.
No. But Friedfick Nietzsche still is.
Well the overwhelming message was, “assembly not necessary, you can just dial in.” So why be surprised.
Those of us who realize that is a flat out lie still have to deal with leaders who capitulated.
Regular attendance down from 34 percent to 30 percent. Generally the serious believers continue to show up.
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