{"id":51036,"date":"2015-05-12T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/americas-religious-face-is-changing-like-it-or-not.html"},"modified":"2015-05-13T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:56:25","slug":"americas-religious-face-is-changing-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/americas-religious-face-is-changing-like-it-or-not.html","title":{"rendered":"America's religious face is changing, like it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pew Research Center's most recent major survey of religion in America has some remarkable results. In just the last several years, Christianity as a whole in the US has declined as a percent of the population. Most of that loss has been among Catholic and mainline Protestant churches, who now combined are a bit over a third of the citizenry, but even evangelical Protestant affiliation is down a bit (as a percent), to just over a quarter of the population. <\/p>\n

Christians, as a whole, have dropped from over three-quarters of the the population to a bit over two-thirds.<\/p>\n

The next biggest group after that is "unaffiliated" — folks who are believers but not church-affiliated, or are just "spiritual," or are atheist \/ agnostic \/ humanist \/ secular. They're just under a quarter of the population.<\/p>\n

This has a variety of impacts, but the most visible (to my mind) is reflected in the growing dread and sense of martyr-like persecution amongst the vocal evangelical population (which is not quite the same as saying "conservative Christian," but there's a lot of overlap). All the fighting over marriage equality, and the "religious freedom" to discriminate, is a reflection of a perceived (consciously or not) loss of power and influence, explicit and implicit, over American culture and politics.<\/p>\n

I'll be reading through the report more carefully, but those are some first impressions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAmerica’s Changing Religious Landscape<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Christian share of the U.S. population is declining, while the share of Americans who do not identify with any organized religion is growing. These changes affect all regions in the country and many demographic groups.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pew Research Center's most recent major survey of religion in America has some remarkable results. In just the last several years, Christianity as a whole in the US has declined as a percent of the population. 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