Religion like in the good old days

HEADLINE: “In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace”

OPENING CONTENT: “The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade.”

Who thinks Christians are a Resource …?

The samples from these political polls are not as large as the Landscape Studies (even when all of the political polls conducted in a year are combined), but together, 88 surveys from 2009 to 2019 included interviews with 168,890 Americans.

So let’s slice and dice …

Religious “nones” are growing faster among Democrats than Republicans, though their ranks are swelling in both partisan coalitions … Furthermore, the data shows a wide gap between older Americans (Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation) and Millennials in their levels of religious affiliation and attendance … The data suggests that Christians are declining not just as a share of the U.S. adult population, but also in absolute numbers … Catholics no longer constitute a majority of the U.S. Hispanic population … There is still a gender gap in American religion … Religious “nones” now make up fully one-third of Democrats … The religious profile of white Democrats is very different from the religious profile of racial and ethnic minorities within the Democratic Party … The share of U.S. adults who are white born-again or evangelical Protestants now stands at 16%, down from 19% a decade ago …