by Jason DeRose, NPR, 3/27/24.
… new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)…finds that:
1. around one-quarter (26%) of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, a number that has risen over the last decade and is now the largest single religious group in the U.S. That’s similar to what other surveys and polls have also found, including Pew Research. ..PRRI found that the number of those who describe themselves as “nothing in particular” has held steady since 2013, but those who identify as atheists have doubled (from 2% to 4%) and those who say they’re agnostic has more than doubled (from 2% to 5%).
2. unaffiliated people are coming from…
– 35% percent were former Catholics,
– 35% were former mainline Protestants,
– only about 16% were former evangelicals,” says Melissa Deckman, PRRI’s chief executive officer.
3. “And really not many of those Americans are, in fact, looking for an organized religion that would be right for them. We just found it was 9%.”
That these people are not looking for a religion has, Deckman says, implications for how and even whether houses of worship should try to attract new people.
Read more at … https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1240811895/leaving-religion-anti-lgbtq-sexual-abuse?
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