America is losing its religion

The effects will be long lasting

A Gallup poll released March 29, 2021 found just 47% of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% as recently as 1999.

Reporting on the subject by Axios: America is losing its religion — and the effects will be long-lasting

Whatever their religious practices, Americans are increasingly rejecting many of the moral precepts found in most major religions.

A 2017 Gallup poll found a significant majority of Americans believe practices like birth control, divorce, extramarital sex, gay and lesbian relations are all morally acceptable.

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As religion decreasingly becomes something Americans practice, it may instead become another identity, subsumed into the ongoing culture wars.

The trend may also shake up the electorate. The journalist Matt Yglesias noted that when a white person switches from being Christian to non-affiliated, they are more likely to become a Democrat

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But conventional religion’s power is on the wane, and it might take a miracle for that to change.