{"id":358052,"date":"2022-12-22T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=358052"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:57:57","slug":"fewer-americans-identify-with-religion-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/fewer-americans-identify-with-religion-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Americans identify with religion than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Good news ! <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Church attendance and belief in God are at historic lows in the US, surveys show<\/p>\n<p>Fewer Americans are attending church than ever, according to recent polls. The surveys referred to in several US media reports on Wednesday show that a combination of pandemic lockdowns and generational shifts in attitudes has the once solidly Christian nation questioning its relationship with organized religion.<\/p>\n<p>More than four in five Americans (81%) believe in God, according to a Gallup poll conducted earlier this year. While that\u2019s still a sizable majority, it\u2019s also the lowest percentage since the pollster began asking the question back in 1944, when 98% of Americans espoused belief.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the number of Americans who belong to a church, mosque, or synagogue is at an all-time low, comprising a minority of the population (47%) for the first time last year, according to Gallup. Driven by a rise in those claiming no religious affiliation, a group that has rivaled Catholics or evangelical Christians in size since before the Covid-19 pandemic, the decline is likely to continue, the pollster suggests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/568700-americans-believe-god-church-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/pfbid02PaVvhkvyFn5pLXh2tCK2iue7awAEtwVKUAMaiJCK3FHExdC7fxWQEduNJwbmsvwQl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Good news !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":358224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raels-comments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}