{"id":31768,"date":"2022-09-10T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christianity-continues-to-lose-demographic-ground-in-u-s\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:43:19","slug":"christianity-continues-to-lose-demographic-ground-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christianity-continues-to-lose-demographic-ground-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Continues to Lose Demographic Ground in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
Andrew Seaman photo – Unsplash <\/p>\n

By Aaron Earls<\/em><\/p>\n

Men and women, Republicans and Democrats, white and black, college-educated and not, Baby Boomers and millennials. These groups don\u2019t often have a lot in common, but one thing is true for them all\u2014Christianity is in decline.<\/p>\n

In new data released by Pew Research, Christianity has dropped to 65% of the U.S. population, while the religiously unaffiliated or \u201cnones\u201d grew to 26%.<\/p>\n

Among the nones, atheists and agnostics both grew two percentage points, climbing from 2% and 3% to 4% and 5% respectively.<\/p>\n

The largest increase is among those who say they are \u201cnothing in particular\u201d in terms of their religious identification. They grew from 12% of the population to 17%.<\/p>\n

Christianity has declined in virtually every major demographic group, while nones have simultaneously grown.<\/p>\n

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In the past decade, Christianity has had double digit percentage point decreases among men (-12), women (-11), millennials (-16), whites (-12), blacks (-11), Hispanics (-10), those with less than a college education (-11), college graduates (-13), Democrats (-17), those who live in the Northeast (-15), those who live in the South (-12), and those who live in the Midwest (-10).<\/p>\n

Smaller, but still significant loses were found among the Silent Generation (-2), Baby Boomers (-6), Generation X (-8), Republicans (-7), and those who live in the West (-9).<\/p>\n

Both Protestants and Catholics have seen their share of Americans decline. Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify as Protestants, down from 51% a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Catholics have ticked downward from 23% in 2009 to 20% today, which means there are now more American nones than American Catholics.<\/p>\n

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The religiously unaffiliated are statistically equal to the share of Americans who self-identify as born-again or evangelical. That percentage stands at 25%, down from 28% in 2009.<\/p>\n

Declines were even greater among Protestants who do not identify as evangelical. They dropped from 23% to 18% of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n

This means that while evangelical Protestants make up a smaller percentage of the American population as a whole, the American Protestant population is more evangelical than ever.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, 56% of Protestants identified as born again\/evangelical. Today, that number has climbed to 59%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

AARON EARLS (@WardrobeDoor)<\/strong> is online editor of <\/em>Facts & Trends.<\/p>\n

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