The percentage of Americans who have membership in a house of worship has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in eight decades, according to a report released by Gallup on Monday. U.S. church membership has steadily been declining for the past two decades. Before 2000, church membership had generally stayed around 70 percent from when Gallup began measuring it in the 1930s. In 2020, membership reached an all-time low of 47 percent. “The decline in church membership is primarily a function of the increasing number of Americans who express no religious preference,” Gallup notes in its report. “Over the past two decades, the percentage of Americans who do not identify with any religion has grown from 8% in 1998-2000 to 13% in 2008-2010 and 21% over the past three years.” A small portion of the drop in membership is due to a decline in Americans who said they have formal church membership. From 1998 to 2000, 73 percent of religious Americans said they belonged to a church. That number has since dropped to an average of 60 percent of religious Americans. Satisfaction with vaccine rollout surges to 68 percent: poll Church membership is also strongly linked to age, Gallup notes. Among people born before 1946, 66 percent belong to a church with the share of people dropping as the generations progress. 58 percent of baby boomers, 50 percent of Generation X and 36 percent of Millennials report belong to a church. However, regardless of generation, the share of U.S. adults who do not have a religious affiliation or belong to a church has continued to grow. The trend was also observed across all subgroups including men, women, Hispanics, political parties and region of the U.S. "The U.S. remains a religious nation, with more than seven in 10 affiliating with some type of organized religion," the Gallup report reads. "However, far fewer, now less than half, have a formal membership with a specific house of worship. While it is possible that part of the decline seen in 2020 was temporary and related to the coronavirus pandemic, continued decline in future decades seems inevitable, given the much lower levels of religiosity and church membership among younger versus older generations of adults."
Church is just man's way to use religion to control people and abuse women and children and get rich...
Why is this thread in Politics? It belongs in the Religion or chit chat section. I saw a couple of retarded answers already before logging in.
Fewer religious people,fewer republicans.I know you're not the brightest bulb on the tree but I thought you could have figured this one out.
My take on this is There’s too many man made barriers that keeps people away from a place they want to be.
I don't see anything mentioned in your first post above about religion. Maybe you are more senile than I first thought. You know, like your hero Joe Biden? Maybe you should stop staying up so late posting here at ET while getting drunk or stoned or whatever drugs you use. That way you can put threads in the correct forum here at ET.
The Hill is a political website and Gallup is a political polling organization.Seems most people can figure out the connection between lower church membership and politics.