A majority of U.S. adults believe religion is losing influence in public life, new Pew Research Center says investigation found.
Overall, 80 percent of U.S. adults say the role of religion in American life is shrinking, “the percentage is higher than ever,” according to the poll report. Almost half (49%) say the declining influence of religion in public life is a “bad thing.” Eight percent said the influence of religion is “growing, and that’s a good thing.”
Only 6% say the influence of religion is “increasing, which is a bad thing,” while only 6% say the influence of religion is “decreasing, which is a good thing.” It was 13%.
The poll found that just over one in five Americans felt neutral about religion’s influence on public life. 3% said it was “growing but not changing,” and 18% said it was “decreasing but not changing.”
Other recent polls have found that Americans perceive a decline in religious influence in the United States and see less value in children sharing their religious views. . Other polls show that church attendance and general belief in God have declined in the United States over the past several years.
a wall street journal-A March 2023 NORC poll found that the share of Americans who say patriotism, religious beliefs, family, and other traditional American values are “very important” is decreasing. It became obvious.
49% of respondents said they knew God really existed and had no doubts, but only 39 said religion was “very important” to them. %was. Religion’s importance ranking has declined sharply, with 62% of Americans saying religion was “very important” in 1998, dropping to 48% in 2019, and hitting its lowest point in 2023. The ratio was .
Younger respondents were less likely than older respondents to rank religion as very important to them, 31 percent to 55 percent. Republicans (53%) were also more likely to say religion is “very important” than Democrats (27%) and independents (38%).
The Pew Research Center poll was conducted February 13-25, 2024, with 12,693 respondents. The margin of sampling error is ±1.5 percentage points.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
