Current Events > Religion continues to die out in America. Are you religious?

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Theres a constant stream of new evidence to reinforce the long-term trend of religious affiliation falling and
nonbelief rising. One such is this June 2019 poll from the Wall Street Journal:

The steady, long-term decline in church attendance is confirmed in the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Just 29% of Americans now say they attend religious services once a week or more often. That is down from 41% in 2000.

At the same time, the share of Americans saying they never attend religious services has risen to 26%, almost double the 14% who said so back in 2000. The rise in churchlessness is most dramatic among young Americans. Among those aged 18 to 34, the rate saying they never attend religious services previously was no different from the national rate; now the share of these younger Americans who never attend religious services has more than doubled, to 36%.

You can see this societal sea change playing out in a new Gallup poll which finds that Americans confidence in organized religion has sunk to 36%, an all-time low:

Confidence in organized religion topped confidence in all other institutions from 1973 to 1985, and, even after falling amid televangelist scandals in the 1980s, it registered at the majority level consistently until 2001. After the Boston Globes 2002 expose revealed Catholic church leaders were aware of and did not take strong action to stop serial sex abuse by priests, confidence in organized religion dropped sharply to 45%. It recovered slightly in the years after the scandal broke, hovering around the 50% mark. Between 2010 and 2017, it regularly registered in the 40s. Since then, in 2018 and 2019, Americans confidence in religion has been below the 40% mark.

Link: https://bit.ly/2S5WOpm

>links to a biased atheist site with a blog as a source

tc did you write this?
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Organized religions are cults.

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

>links to a biased atheist site with a blog as a source

tc did you write this?

The website cited wallstreet journal and gallup poll.

Stop being desperate and go do something productive with your life. You'll thank me later.

SquantoZ posted...

Organized religions are cults.

That seems to be the consensus these days.

ZannoL posted...

Stop being desperate

Post the actual source instead of a bias site
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also you were warned recently right? what'd you do
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SquantoZ posted...

Organized religions are cults.

Indeed

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Garioshi posted...

Indeed

I have to agree.

i tie the theological with the abstract and physical

axiomatically atheistic but identify as an agnostic theist

not religious but only because i have not consolidated my thoughts and identified a religion i strongly identify enough to subscribe to, let alone associate with the community of

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TheMikh posted...

i tie the theological with the abstract and physical

axiomatically atheistic but identify as an agnostic theist

not religious but only because i have not consolidated my thoughts and identified a religion i strongly identify enough to subscribe to, let alone associate with the community of

Interesting.

this is what you get for claiming Trump as the 2nd Coming
>_>

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Kind of in the closet about it among family, but no, I don't consider myself religious.

SquantoZ posted...

Organized religions are cults.

This is true.


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Haven't been to church in ages. Someday, I'll hunker down and do my research on religions. I never liked how I never knew the history and the culture in which the stories of the bible were told. That's a prime context to distort messages.

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Bump

I believe in some kinda higher power, but I've never followed / believed in a religion.

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The fewer people who believe in invisible sky wizards the better. Use that energy for something useful.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

The fewer people who believe in invisible sky wizards the better. Use that energy for something useful.

This made me laugh