United States: A progressively de-Christianized country

The number of persons self-identifying as Christians in the United States has fallen by 8% from 2007 to 2014, from 78.4% to 70.6% according to the latest survey carried out by the Pew Research Center and published May 12, 2015. Persons describing themselves as “without religion”—including atheists, agnostics, and those refusing to describe themselves—went from 16.1% in 2007 to 22.8% in 2014. This group includes 56 million people and is now greater than the number of Catholics and Protestants called “traditional” and is the second largest group, after evangelical Protestants. The Pew Research Center notes that “young people under 35 play a significant role in the growth of Americans without religious affiliation”, a phenomenon called “generational replacement.”

Americans are also leaving the faith of their childhoods in ever-increasing numbers. Today, 19.2% of adults are Christians who have abandoned their religion.

The Pew Research Center emphasizes that these tendencies affect all regions of the country, all social classes and all communities: Whites, Latinos, women, men, graduates and non-graduates alike. In the meantime, non-Christian religions are growing. Islam and Hinduism, grouped together on the survey, have grown from 4.7% to 5.9%.

(Source: kipa-apic.ch – Yahoo News – Reinformation TV – DICI no.316 June 5, 2015)

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