Mass Exodus of the Church: in the USA UU., The percentage of young adults without religious affiliation has...
Mass Exodus of the Church: in the USA UU., The percentage of young adults without religious affiliation has almost INCREASED SIZE since 1986
In the United States, we are witnessing a religious change unprecedented in size and scope in American history. With each passing year, the perc ...
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In the United States, we are witnessing a religious change unprecedented in size and scope in American history. With each passing year, the percentage of Americans who claim no religious affiliation It is growing, and this trend is especially pronounced among our youth.If things continue to move in this direction, that will have enormous implications for the future of our society. The United States was founded by people who were extremely committed to their faith, and now they are rapidly becoming a nation where people do not choose any religion.
We live at a time when there is a mass exodus of Christian churches, and while it is true that some smaller religions are growing, the reality of the matter is that most of the people who are leaving are not affiliated.
According to the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), if it returns to 1991, only 6 percent of all Americans were "unaffiliated," but today that number has shot up to 25 percent...In 1991, only six percent of Americans identified their religious affiliation as "none," and that number had not moved much since the early 1970s. At the end of the 1990s, 14% of the public did not claim any religious affiliation.
The rate of religious change accelerated even more in the late 2000s and early 2010s, reaching 20% in 2012. Today, a quarter (25%) of Americans do not claim a religious identity formal, which makes this group the largest "religious group" in the world. WE
The most dramatic change during this period has been among young people.
If it goes back to 1986, only 10 percent of Americans in the age group of 18 to 29 were not affiliated. Today, that number has shot up to 39 percent.
Here's more about PRRI: Today, almost four in ten (39%) young adults (between 18 and 29 years old) are not religiously affiliated, three times the rate of nonaffiliates (13%) among older adults (older 65 years old).
While previous generations were also more likely not to be religiously affiliated in their twenties, today's young adults are almost four times more likely than young adults of a generation to identify as religiously unaffiliated. In 1986, for example, only 10% of young adults claimed to have no religious affiliation.
And just because Millennials claim a religious affiliation of some kind does not mean they actually go to church.
In fact, a study by the Pew Research Center found that only 27 percent of Millennials say they "attend religious services weekly" ...
"Millennials, especially the younger Millennials, who have entered adulthood since the first Landscape Study was conducted, are far less religious than their elders. For example, only 27% of Millennials say they attend religious services weekly, compared to 51% of adults in the silent generation.
"Four out of ten of the younger Millennials say they pray every day, compared to the Baby Boomers of six out of ten and two-thirds of the Silent Generation members. Only half of Millennials say they believe in God with absolute certainty, compared with seven out of ten Americans in the Silent and Baby Boom cohorts. And only about four out of ten millennia say that religion is very important in their lives, compared to more than half in the oldest generational cohorts. "
Of course, not all those who "attend religious services" go to Christian churches. Some go to mosques, others attend the synagogue and others participate in other religions.
At some point, one could count on fast-growing groups like Southern Baptists and Mormons to produce positive growth numbers, but those days have already passed ...
Southern Baptists have lost more than one million members in the last decade, according to Life Way. Donations and assistance have decreased, and Baptists are seeing more gray and silver heads in the banks.
Meanwhile, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has seen the enviable growth rate of the US once enviable. UU., That has been reduced to less than 1 percent in each of the last two years. Mormonism, which grew by only 0.75 percent in the United States in 2017, barely keeps pace with the growth of the United States population (+71 percent).
Europe has been described as a "post-Christian society," and Americans are well on their way to joining them.
So, what is causing this to happen?
Well, there is certainly a lot of debate about this within Christian circles. From the outside, many experts point to demographic changes. The following comes from a recent article by Jana Riess:
"One of the most important demographic trends of our time is that millennials are delaying marriage or not getting married at all. And since there is a strong correlation between being married and being involved in religion, the fact that fewer Americans are getting married is a worrisome news for the clergy. "
In addition to a decrease in the number of marriages, experts also point to the fact that Americans have fewer children these days:
"The number of children a family has is related to the couple's religious participation: couples without children are less likely to be religious. So, the fact that fertility is in decline is, again, a worrisome news for organized religion. "
But are these factors the cause of the decline of religious faith in the United States or are they the result?
It could be argued that churches have always promoted marriage and the family to a large extent, and if young Americans are no longer so committed to the church, it would make sense to now give these things less priority.
The good news for the churches is that although atheism is growing rapidly, most Americans (even the unaffiliated) still believe in God ...
"Despite their lack of connection to formal religious institutions, most unaffiliated Americans maintain a belief in God or a higher power. Most unaffiliated Americans say that God is a person with whom people can have a relationship (22%) or an impersonal force (37%). Only one third (33%) of Americans without religious affiliation say they do not believe in God.
"The strong majorities of Americans who belong to the main Christian religious traditions have a personal conception of God. Compared to Christians, Americans who identify with a non-Christian tradition are significantly less likely to have a personal conception of God (33%) and are more likely to say that God is an impersonal force in the universe (49%) ) ".
Americans still have a great interest in spiritual things, but many of them are now trying to fill that void in alternative ways. For example, it has been claimed that Wicca (a very popular form of witchcraft) is now the fastest growing faith in America.
Many like to focus on the political changes that are happening in the country, but the truth is that these cataclysmic changes in our faith will have much more to do with determining the future course of the American nation.
If Americans ever hope to restore the Constitutional Republic that their founders once established, they must return to the Christian values and principles upon which this nation was originally founded.
Any other approach simply will not work, and time is running out.
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