Christianity
The Falling Away? Christianity Becoming Minority Religion In America
From the beginning of time, a destructive attribute that has been seen in humans is PRIDE.
Pride is what caused Lucifer to get the boot out of Heaven and what led Eve to listen to the evil one and eat the forbidden fruit.
In the midst of the United States forming into the most prosperous nation in world history, the “need” for God has been moved to the back burner.
As the result of Americans becoming prideful in our prosperity, a new report is out that says Christians could become a minority in America by 2045.
The report by Pew Research Center and the General Social Survey said that Christians are largely leaving religion behind to become atheists, agnostics, or what the report calls “nothing in particular.”
Pew’s prediction that 2045 will see the end of Christianity as the practicing religion of a majority of Americans is based on an escalation of current trends.
The Bible is replete with warnings and prophecies that many people who claimed to be Christians, would walk away from their faith as the end times approaches.
“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” (1 Tim 4:1-2)
“Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.” (2 Peter 3:17)
“If the pace of switching before the age of 30 were to speed up throughout the projection period without any brakes, Christians would no longer be a majority by 2045,” Pew researchers wrote.
If this should take place, Christians would be 35 percent of the population, and religiously unaffiliated Americans would make up 52 percent of the population by the year 2070.
Pew researcher Stephanie Kramer said a reversal of the trend away from Christianity is not likely, according to Christianity Today.
“We’ve never seen it, and we don’t have the data to model a religious reversal,” Kramer said.
As recently as the early 1990s, about 90% of U.S. adults identified as Christians. In 2007 the share was at 78%. Today, that number is down to 64%. Since 2007, the share of adults who identify as religious “nones” has grown from 16% to 29%. 6/ https://t.co/BELUlKdCdu pic.twitter.com/WbBRTcf93v
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 13, 2022
“There are some who say that revival never happens in an advanced economy. After secularization, you can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. But we don’t know that. We just don’t have the data,” she said.
“Switching out has been happening steadily, which didn’t used to happen,” Kramer said. “It used to be that if you met someone on the street, and their father and mother were Christian, then they were Christian, too. That’s not always true anymore. For about a third of people, that’s not true anymore.”
The report noted that in the early 1990s, about 90 percent of Americans said they were Christian.
By 2020, that had fallen to 64 percent.
Pew took the historical data and offered various scenarios of how that would play out in the future.
These rates of religious switching model what the U.S. landscape would look like if switching stayed at its recent pace, continued to speed up, or suddenly halted: 5/ https://t.co/BELUlKdCdu pic.twitter.com/InenWf4LAY
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) September 13, 2022
If God has abandoned the United States leaving us to our own evil devices, the rapid falling away will most likely increase, which no one who loves their family and liberties should hope for.
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