About 64% of Americans call themselves Christian today. That might sound like a lot, but 50 years ago that number was 90%, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center study.
The Covid-19 pandemic also hurt the church in America. Church attendance has rebounded recently but remains slightly below pre-pandemic levels. A 2021 Gallup poll revealed another grim number for Christians: church membership in the US has fallen below 50% for the first time.
"The interest of the nones will soon outweigh those of the religious right in just a matter of years," Wray says."Nones are going to vote as a bloc and they're going to be pretty powerful. White evangelicals will eventually be eclipsed by the unaffiliated." The world's largest megachurch, for example, is not in the US. It's in South Korea. The Yoido Full Gospel Church has a weekly attendance of about 600,000 members.
The US has more immigrants than any other country. People from Latin America and Asia now make up the overwhelming majority of immigrants to the US, and many are bringing their religious fervor with them. "We cannot assume that America will become more secular so long as the future of America is less white," Warren wrote.
And atheism remains a taboo in American politics. American voters still prefer candidates — including presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden — who profess or evoke Christian beliefs. A growing number of Americans may no longer identify as Christian, but many still care about spirituality, says Hans Gustafson, author of"Everyday Wisdom: Interreligious Studies for a Pluralistic World."
He cites a surprising finding from a 2018 Pew Research Center study of religion in Western Europe. The study found that nones in the US are"much more likely" to pray and believe in God than their European counterparts, said Neha Sahgal, a vice president of research at Pew.
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