U.S Becoming Less Religious, The Observant Become More Devout

[Straight Shooter]

While the U.S. as a whole remains overwhelmingly religious, overall the country has become less so in recent years due largely to a growing group of Americans who say they have no particular religious affiliation, according to a Pew Research survey released Tuesday.

The number of Americans who say they are religiously unaffiliated climbed from 16% in 2007 to 23% in 2014, a trend primarily driven by the widespread shift away from organized religion among younger Americans. Fewer than half (44%) of older Millennials—people born between 1981 and 1989—say religion is very important to them, a stark difference from older generations. That decline in religiosity is even more pronounced among younger Millennials, but part of that effect may be due to people growing more religious over time, Pew cautions. The unaffiliated are unsurprisingly less religious than those who belong to a specific sect, and their growth in numbers has dragged down religiosity among Americans overall.

But while America is gradually growing less religious, those who do identify with a faith report slightly higher levels of religiosity than they have in the past. Today, 43% of the religiously affiliated say they say they read scripture at least once a week, up three points from 2007, and 26% say they proselytize at least once weekly, up from 23% in 2007.

The religiously unaffiliated, also known as “Nones,” now represent the single biggest religious group in the Democratic Party, larger than Catholics, Evangelicals, members of the historically black protestant tradition, and mainline protestants. Nones are also growing in the GOP, though much more slowly, and they remain a distinct minority. And while Nones as a group are less religiously observant, a majority say they still believe in God.

Despite the decline of overall religiosity—church attendance, frequency of prayer, certainty of belief in God are all trending downward—a certain kind of spirituality is actually on the rise. The total number of Americans who say they regularly experience “a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being” increased 7 points from 52% to 59%. An increase in that metric held true for all age groups survey, from the Silent Generation to younger Millennials.

http://time.com/4098544/u-s-becoming-less-religious-survey/

 

[sean miguel]

that makes sense.

the chaff and the wheat and all.

 

[Jack Davenport]

See you next November

 

[blakey]

something good coming out of liberal texas helping the movement away from religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atheist_Experience

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCprs0DXUS-refN1i8FkQkdg


:hatsoff:

 

[Straight Shooter]

With the country become less religious it makes sense that those who are religious would cling to religion even more now

 

[blakey]

With the country become less religious it makes sense that those who are religious would cling to religion even more now

true, and they've only got a little while left to stay faithful until the rapture comes

:rofl2:

 

[Jack Davenport]

More evangelicals will vote in the next general election than in 1980. Mitt Romney and his magic Mormon underwear made them stay home in 2012.

One year from today. I for one, can't wait!

 

[sean miguel]

More evangelicals will vote in the next general election than in 1980. Mitt Romney and his magic Mormon underwear made them stay home in 2012.

One year from today. I for one, can't wait!

the last evangelical GOP nominee won two terms right?

and the one before that won two terms including a ridiculous landslide?



we be in the club like wha? like wha?

 

[Jack Davenport]

I believe Donald Trump is more of an evangelical than GWB.

 

[sean miguel]

I see the appeal, but Trump is devoted to Trump.

 

[ChefChiTown]

With the country become less religious it makes sense that those who are religious would cling to religion even more now

I've always had a suspicion that a lot of religious people are religious only because they are stubborn and their faith is merely created out of spite. It's like they're Punk'ing the world by pretending to believe in a bunch of shit they know to be complete horseshit.

 

[sean miguel]

I've always had a suspicion that a lot of religious people are religious only because they are stubborn and their faith is merely created out of spite. It's like they're Punk'ing the world by pretending to believe in a bunch of shit they know to be complete horseshit.

Yet some are willing and have died for it throughout history. Would you die for a lie if you knew it was a lie?


And out of spite? That's just stupid and perhaps projection on your part. The upside?

 

[BlkHawk]

Six years of bible study in home school for me. I have been a non believer ever since.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Lo

I've always had a suspicion that a lot of religious people are religious only because they are stubborn and their faith is merely created out of spite. It's like they're Punk'ing the world by pretending to believe in a bunch of shit they know to be complete horseshit.

You mean like man made climate change? Funny how their predictions are always 25-30 years away. With such infallible science, they should be be able to predict events/conditions 2 weeks out.

 

[blakey]

Lo

You mean like man made climate change? ... With such infallible science, they should be be able to predict events/conditions 2 weeks out.

you should try to learn the difference between weather and climate,

then You Might be able to understand the science a little,


or are you a meteorologist and climatologist, as well as being a historian, constitutional scholar etc?



dummy icardfacepalm:

 

[ChefChiTown]

Yet some are willing and have died for it throughout history. Would you die for a lie if you knew it was a lie?


And out of spite? That's just stupid and perhaps projection on your part. The upside?

That's the issue - every religious person, on some level, KNOWS it's all a lie.

Every religion that has ever been created (yes, created - because human beings create religions all by themselves) has gone through the same cycle:

Step 1: Myth is created
Step 2: Myth spreads
Step 3: Myth becomes so popular it becomes common knowledge
Step 4: Myth is believed and becomes "religion"
Step 5: Religion grows and spreads across the world
Step 6: People begin to question validity of said religion
Step 7: Religion can't be proven to be legit
Step 8: Religious followers get frantic and desperate
Step 9: Religion begins to die
Step 10: Religion turns back into a myth

It happens to all religions. They're all lies. Yet, millions upon millions of people have died for their god/goddess throughout history.

 

[Jack Davenport]

you should try to learn the difference between weather and climate,

then you might be able to understand the science a little,


or are you a meteorologist and climatologist, as well as being a historian, constitutional scholar etc?



dummy icardfacepalm:

I do know the difference , toothache.

Climatology is a pseudo-science created and based on computer modeling. None of it has come to fruition, and peer review essentially consists of a like minded peanut gallery of leftists furthering an anti-progress anti-capitalism agenda. That is why their predictions are so far and into the future. They can perpetrate their hoax, hamper progress and their data doesn't have to be scrutinized until years later. Not that it matters. Just move the goalposts. Meteorology actually consists on analyzing and predicting weather events and patterns and effects.

:wave2:

 

[Straight Shooter]

you should try to learn the difference between weather and climate,

then You Might be able to understand the science a little,


or are you a meteorologist and climatologist, as well as being a historian, constitutional scholar etc?



dummy icardfacepalm:

You get some rep for that one buddy :thumbsup:

 

[Jack Davenport]

Did your buddies at The Atlantic help you with that too?

 

[Straight Shooter]

Did your buddies at The Atlantic help you with that too?

:1orglaugh