http://churchandstate.org.uk/2020/06/u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/


An update on America's changing religious landscape


The number of Americans who believe in God continues a substantial decline. In their latest survey of religion, the Pew Research Center found, “In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.” [All data quoted in this diary comes from this report].

Democrats tend to be less religious than Republicans. Pew found about six-in-ten people who identified with or lean toward the Democratic Party say they attend religious services no more than a few times a year. Fully one-third of Democrats make up religious “nones.” The ranks of religious “nones” and infrequent churchgoers also are growing within the Republican Party, though they make up smaller shares of Republicans than Democrats.

The number of Americans who call themselves Christian declined from 77% ten years ago to 65% in 2019. What is worse (or better), the absolute number of Christians declined. In 2019, the country had thirteen million fewer Christians at one hundred sixty-six million.

Protestants have nine million fewer members, two million less born-again’s, and seven million less non-born-again’s. Catholics are down by two million. Mormons were up slightly, but their % remained the same at 2%.

People who identified themselves as atheists, agnostics, or “nothing in particular” increased by twenty-seven million to sixty-seven million people. Today, 17% of Americans say they never attend religious services up from 11% a decade ago.

The data also shows a wide gap between older Americans and Millennials in their levels of religious affiliation and attendance. People born between 1928 and 1945 describe themselves as Christians 84% of the time. Baby Boomers only 76% of the time. In stark contrast, only 49% of Millenials describe themselves as Christian. Four-in-ten Millenials described themselves as “nones,” and one-in-ten identified with non-Christian faith.

Christians have declined, and “nones” have grown as a share of the adult population in all four major regions. Catholic losses were more pronounced in the Northeast, where 36% identified as Catholic in 2009, compared with 27% today. Among Protestants, declines were most significant in the South, where Protestants now account for 53% of the adult population, down from 64% in 2009.

Good. And I have to admit watching the implosion is pretty funny too.

Yeah no. It is still in control and we are all paying for it.

yeah, as in Utah is now down to maybe the 60s in percentage being members of the church (in name), but the legislature is still, what, in the 90s in percentage answering to the Profit?