Via NBC:

Fewer Americans say they believe in God or pray regularly — yet more people believe in an afterlife nonetheless, a new study finds.

It's a generational thing, with millennials the least likely generation to say they're religious or to take the Bible literally, the team at San Diego State University, Florida Atlantic University and Case Western Reserve University found.

"In recent years, fewer Americans prayed, believed in God, took the Bible literally, attended religious services, identified as religious, affiliated with a religion, or had confidence in religious institutions," the team wrote in the journal Sage Open.

"The large declines in religious practice among young adults are also further evidence that millennials are the least religious generation in memory, and possibly in American history," said psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, who led the study.
"In 1984, 14 percent of Americans believed the Bible 'is an ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men' rather than the word of God; by 2014, 22 percent of Americans believed this, a 57 percent increase," they wrote.

In 1998, 49 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds said they were moderately or very religious in 1998. By 2014 this had dropped to 38 percent.

And while 15 percent of adults said they were "not religious at all" in 1998, 20 percent did in 2014.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/fewer-americans-believe-god-yet-they-still-believe-afterlife-n542966

It's Part of it... Gradually an attack will be on religion.

feldido:
It's Part of it... Gradually an attack will be on religion.

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Weah96:


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Lol, there's still over 200m Christians in the U.S of A.

More education,less belief in Religion

Because they have forgotten their heritage. See what some Americans said:

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Read More http://www.cancertutor.com/quotes_presidents/

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

Scholar8200:
Because they have forgotten their heritage. See what some Americans said:

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Read More http://www.cancertutor.com/quotes_presidents/

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

Just as you have forgotten your own history, roots and heritage as an African who left his own heritage to embrace that of the Jews.

Its amazing how you are concerned of America forgetting their heritage and not about you forgetting yours..

By the way Native Americans had their own religion, Columbus massacred them to establish the new colony!!!

The internet will eventually finish religion in the US. Children from poor families have access to UNINTERRUPTED Wi-Fi coverage, 24/7, and the amount of information that can be acquired is astonishing.
The talking god who can only talk to hearts and stomachs is a concept that children are beginning to dismiss on instinct. Especially those children who possess hearts and stomachs themselves.

I'm afraid that the time will come when Africans will be the ONLY ones praying to the Jewish god. And they would still be pointing to some biblical prophecy as vindication of that choice. I can bet money.

johnydon22:


Just as you have forgotten your own history, roots and heritage as an African who left his own heritage to embrace that of the Jews.

You might have also said the Abraham forgot his idolatrous roots to embrace...?(Fill in the gap)

Its amazing how you are concerned of America forgetting their heritage and not about you forgetting yours..

Just keeping with the topic of the thread.

By the way Native Americans had their own religion, Columbus massacred them to establish the new colony!!!

And William Penn met with the same Native Americans with peace.

Scholar8200:
Because they have forgotten their heritage. See what some Americans said:

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Read More http://www.cancertutor.com/quotes_presidents/

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was never a Christian or religious person

stephenmorris:
Thomas Jefferson was never a Christian or religious person

Alright.