Pew Poll: Religious ‘Nones’ Tilt Progressive

By Published on November 6, 2015

“The U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious,” reads the headline from the new Pew Poll Religion in America series. The share of Americans who profess to believe in God has dropped from 92 to 89 percent since the Pew Research Center conducted its last Landscape Study in 2007. That said, the U.S. is still home to the highest percentage of believers in any advanced nation in the world.

But the bad news for churches isn’t simply that Pew finds a modest decline in belief, but that so many Americans are embracing something called “general spirituality.” You know, the “I’m a spiritual person but I don’t believe in organized religion” crowd? This means that one of the largest growing trends in American faith is replacing moral codes with soppy platitudes and feel-good aphorisms.

As a non-believer — unlike some people, I’m willing to commit — I shouldn’t really care that people who condemn “organized religion” often do so because any kind of orthodoxy feels uncomfortable, icky, or archaic. Although I might not have any skin in the game (other than the skin that is singed from my flesh as I burn in the eternity of the flaming tombs if I’m wrong), this exodus sounds like bad news. Established churches help a free society thrive as they strengthen communities, families, and civil society in general.

 

Read the article “Pew Poll: Religious ‘Nones’ Tilt Progressive” on nationalreview.com.

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