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About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Pew Research Center ^ | 12/14/21 | Gregory A. Smiith

Posted on 12/15/2021 7:16:12 PM PST by marshmallow

Self-identified Christians make up 63% of U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago

The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing. The latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is 6 percentage points higher than it was five years ago and 10 points higher than a decade ago.

Christians continue to make up a majority of the U.S. populace, but their share of the adult population is 12 points lower in 2021 than it was in 2011. In addition, the share of U.S. adults who say they pray on a daily basis has been trending downward, as has the share who say religion is “very important” in their lives.

Currently, about three-in-ten U.S. adults (29%) are religious “nones” – people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” when asked about their religious identity. Self-identified Christians of all varieties (including Protestants, Catholics, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Orthodox Christians) make up 63% of the adult population. Christians now outnumber religious “nones” by a ratio of a little more than two-to-one. In 2007, when the Center began asking its current question about religious identity, Christians outnumbered “nones” by almost five-to-one (78% vs. 16%).

The recent declines within Christianity are concentrated among Protestants. Today, 40% of U.S. adults are Protestants, a group that is broadly defined to include nondenominational Christians and people who describe themselves as “just Christian” along with Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and members of many other denominational families. The Protestant share of the population is down 4 percentage points over the last five years and has dropped 10 points in 10 years.

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1 posted on 12/15/2021 7:16:12 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

A Christian can be unaffiliated and still be a bible believing Christian. I feel closer to God in my garden then anywhere else on earth.


2 posted on 12/15/2021 7:32:07 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: marshmallow

maybe the hal lindsey doomsayers have either started to become boring, or, with the last 2 years of condescension of christians by the political left, they chose not to be identified?


3 posted on 12/15/2021 7:45:42 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: McGavin999

This is about the folks who claim no religion or faith at all, not a Christian who doesn’t belong to an organized Christian group. The ‘nones’.

This shouldn’t be shocking when one considers our unprecedented societal conditions. The fattest, most passively entertained and comfortable people in history seem to also be the most spiritually dead ever. It’s kind of what one would expect, looking at the history of faith.

Freegards


4 posted on 12/15/2021 8:04:05 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

Some people interpret the words ‘religion’ or ‘religious’ to refer to established religious sects and perspectives.

I don’t consider myself to be ‘religious’, for example. But I believe profoundly in a Creator-God/First Cause, who created the Universe, and in whose life I live and breathe.


5 posted on 12/15/2021 8:12:47 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: marshmallow

The Religiously Unaffiliated (barf) just haven’t been through a true personal “foxhole” experience yet. Everyone does eventually...but only some have a chance to make peace with their maker before the formal meeting.


6 posted on 12/15/2021 9:06:55 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: McGavin999

I agree with you totally. I always considered my garden a true miracle. Such an abundance from a tiny seed.


7 posted on 12/15/2021 9:23:28 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: marshmallow

Just as I have become politically non-affiliated with any Party, so I too have stopped aligning myself with any church.


8 posted on 12/15/2021 9:31:25 PM PST by ImpBill (America! Has anybody seen her lately?)
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To: marshmallow

I don’t belong to any church but am a believer. I have looked for a church to join, but I go to their sites and read their sermons and none preach about revelations.


9 posted on 12/15/2021 10:10:23 PM PST by roving
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To: Terry L Smith

The rapture happened on the 7th off December 2021. Hmmm... seems like no one got taken away and all be left behind


10 posted on 12/15/2021 10:46:56 PM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Jamestown1630

The Jains have an interesting tale on that. They reject the concept of a creator god.


11 posted on 12/16/2021 4:42:29 AM PST by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: marshmallow

I thought that would be much higher, reversed actually. Interesting...


12 posted on 12/16/2021 6:31:37 AM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Jamestown1630
“I don’t consider myself to be ‘religious’, for example. But I believe profoundly in a Creator-God/First Cause, who created the Universe”

But according to the book of James even Satan believes that.

13 posted on 12/16/2021 6:42:31 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Well, I don’t believe in Satan, so...


14 posted on 12/16/2021 7:00:09 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: marshmallow

What is religion? Think about it, look it up but pause on the thought.

Everybody has a religion............................

We have so many “ISM”s we can’t count them.


15 posted on 12/16/2021 7:03:06 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: marshmallow
I am proudly independent, and have been unaffiliated with a recognized religious organization for decades. That does not mean I'm completely "chruchless": I'm a member of the Church of the Bathroom Mirror. Grounded in the Golden Rule, the main theme is that if you don't like the person you see each morning, then change.

I started out as Methodist, then shifted to Presbyterian when I married. I was a blind follower...until I joined the Worship Committee of my church. When I saw how the sausage was being made, I said "I'm outta here."

The anthem of my church is Michael Jackson's "Man In the Mirror". The last line of the song: "Make that change."

16 posted on 12/16/2021 7:31:08 AM PST by asinclair
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To: asinclair
'if you don't like the person you see each morning, then change.'

Very good philosophy. A lot of 'religionists' would do well to live by it.
17 posted on 12/16/2021 8:05:12 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Terry L Smith
" the hal lindsey doomsayers "

perhaps you should stay in your Copland camp, corefalo dollar express, or feel good Joel Osteen ovalteen haze.

You either believe nothing or you know nothing about the Gospel of JESUS the Messiah.

If you had the brain power of a sparrow, you wouldn't mock a true Christian like Hal.

18 posted on 12/17/2021 1:50:03 PM PST by crazy scenario (The burden of Damascus is next!)
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To: crazy scenario

baby, i dont know what cop-land camp is. i know no one named ,’corefalo’, and i sure as hell do not watch tv, so any olsrteen reference i hear is from a houston syndicated morning show named walton and johnson, and They aint no preachers.

i mock hal, beause if his book was true, and that was in the 70s, he would not have to keep making revisions and editions.

i wont qualify your challenge of what i do or do not know.
i will say that Pagans that i know laugh because christians can never get on the same page in just one bible. they say that until all of the christians, including the jehovahs witnesses and the catholics and the mormons ( to them they are all christians in one big soup), all get the same bible there makes no sense to talk to any christian, since the christians are so divided.

im just letting you know what they think, so dont start throwing bible bombshells at me.


19 posted on 12/17/2021 2:07:14 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Cronos
" The rapture happened on the 7th off December 2021. Hmmm... seems like no one got taken away and all be left behind "

7th off December 2021, you shouldn't mock scripture. It won't look good for you in the judgment!

And while I'm thinking of it, here you are described in the BIBLE......

2 Peter 3:4-6

King James Version

4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

20 posted on 12/17/2021 2:07:47 PM PST by crazy scenario (The burden of Damascus is next!)
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