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Over the past decade, every major religious group in America has seen its number of followers flatline or fall, according to new polling. The largest decline was seen among Catholics, with 10.3% ...
Between 1992 and 2022, Christianity declined from 92.9% to 42.5%(Catholicism from 67.8% to 29.2%). In 2022, only 35.5% of people with age group 30-39 identified as Christians, the number further dropping to 32.8% of people with age group 20-29.[47] Among Catholics, only 12% regularly attend church.
Christianity is the predominant religion in all U.S. states and territories. Conversion into Christianity has significantly increased among Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the United States. In 2012, the percentage of Christians in these communities were 71%, 30% and 37% respectively.
Christianity added about 65.1 million people due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion, while it lost 27.4 million people due to factors such as death rate and religious apostasy in mid-2005. Most of the net growth in the numbers of Christians is in Africa, Latin America and Asia. [ 23 ]
Paul Prather: The future looks worse for churches than even the present, as these larger numbers of younger, unaffiliated Americans age and as older, more religious generations die out.
Criticism of Christianity has a long history which stretches back to the initial formation of the religion in the Roman Empire. Critics have challenged Christian beliefs and teachings as well as Christian actions, from the Crusades to modern terrorism. The arguments against Christianity include the suppositions that it is a faith of violence ...
e. Religion in the United States began with the religions and spiritual practices of Native Americans. Later, religion also played a role in the founding of some colonies, as many colonists, such as the Puritans, came to escape religious persecution. Historians debate how much influence religion, specifically Christianity and more specifically ...
Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019. [ 1 ] Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. [ 2 ]