Tag: Religion
Three-Quarters of Americans Are Religious
76%
Americans’ religious preferences have generally held steady in the past five years, after a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation and concurrent declines in Protestant and Catholic identification over the prior two decades, according to Gallup. In 2024, 45% of Americans identified as Protestant or nondenominational Christian, 21% as Catholic and 10% as another religion, with 22% not identifying with any religion. Those figures are each within one percentage point of their 2018-2020 levels.
Majority: Religion Losing Influence on American Life
80%
A new Pew Research Center survey “finds that 80% of U.S. adults say religion’s role in American life is shrinking – a percentage that’s as high as it’s ever been in our surveys. … Most Americans who say religion’s influence is shrinking are not happy about it. Overall, 49% of U.S. adults say both that religion is losing influence and that this is a bad thing. An additional 8% of U.S. adults think religion’s influence is growing and that this is a good thing.”
U.S. House Still More Christian than General Populace
88%
Pew Research: “The 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives and is slightly more religiously diverse overall than the prior Congress. Still, 88% of the members are Christian, compared with 71% of U.S. adults overall.”
One in Five Americans Has No Religious Affiliation
21%
A new ABC News poll finds the number of adults expressing no religious affiliation has risen from 12% in 2003 to 21% of all adults in 2017. That includes 3% who say they’re atheists, 3% agnostic and 15% who say they have no religion. The largest shifts during this 15-year period include 16-point increases among young adults (age 18 to 29) and political liberals.
Fewer Americans Identifying as Christian
7.8%
The difference between the percentage of Americans who identified as Christian in 2007 (78.4%) and who identified as Christian in 2014 (70.6%), according to the Pew Center for Research.
Rand Paul Clarifies the Bill of Rights for Us
The First Amendment says keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by David Brody, speaking at a private prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C.
How to Improve Your LDS-dar, In One Easy Lesson
Mitt Romney’s thinking of running for president again. That means it’s time for the mainstream media to sweep the truth about how zingy Mormonism is under the rug.
Here’s how you know “legitimate journalists” are talking about Mormons.
Mayor Gets All Profane Over Atheists
Take me to f**king court because I don’t care. Minorities are not going to run my city.
— La Vista, Neb., Mayor Douglas Kindig, quoted by the Daily Beast, on atheists questioning his town-sponsored “day of faith.”
The Date’s Wrong
One side’s fight’s holy, the other’s facetious,
As they engage in the annual war over Christmas.
It’s either about atheists’ damnation
Or Christianists’ Immaculate Consumption —
Either way, it’s not the true birthday of baby Jesus.
