The number of religious Americans has plummeted to its lowest level on record, and the drop is the largest drop in the entire world.
Here's Gallup:
The 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today — ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.
About half of Americans now say religion is not an important part of their daily life. They remain as divided on the question today as they were last year.
Less than half of Americans now say they are religious.
But Christian Nationalism is probably our biggest threat in the country?
Only a small number of mostly wealthy nations have experienced larger losses in religiosity, including Greece from 2013-2023 (28 points), Italy from 2012-2022 (23 points), and Poland from 2013-2023 (22 points). Other countries, including Chile, Türkiye and Portugal, have seen declines similar in magnitude to the U.S. decline.
The United States does have an interesting unique position, however. It doesn't fit into any of the expected boxes:
The U.S. no longer fits neatly into any of these categories, having a medium-high Christian identity but middling religiosity. In terms of religious identity, the percentage of Americans now identifying as Christian is similar to those of Western and Northern European countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Denmark, nations with strong Protestant traditions. Yet religion continues to play a larger role in daily life for Americans than for people in those countries.
Conversely, the importance of religion in daily life in the U.S. resembles that of countries such as Argentina, Ireland, Poland and Italy — where Catholicism is more influential — but significantly fewer Americans now identify as Christian compared with those populations.
The Christians in America are somewhat more religious, or committed to their religion.
Here's what Gallup says is the "bottom line":
The steady decline in U.S. religiosity over the past decade has been evident for years. Fewer Americans identify with a religion, church attendance and membership are declining, and religion holds a less important role in people's lives than it once did. But this analysis of World Poll data puts the decline in a wider context, showing just how large the shift has been in global terms. Since 2007, few countries have measured larger declines in religiosity.
Amid this, there has been a surge in younger people, particularly young men, returning to churches 👇
As men trend conservative and women trend further liberal, however, many young women have abandoned faith. 👇
Faithful Christians want their pastors to directly engage in the spiritual warfare happening around divisive cultural and political issues - something many pastors have avoided for decades. 👇
In addition, places like France, where Christianity has stagnated for centuries, are seeing a burst of church growth, as are countries across Africa and Asia. 👇
Stay hopeful, friends!
As Jesus said:
...many will fall away, betray one another, and hate one another. Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
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