Katie Kerekes, FISM News
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Just under half of Americans say they are certain of the existence of God, according to a recent survey from NORC, the University of Chicago’s research organization.
Released Wednesday, the 2022 General Social Survey shows just 49.63% of Americans believe in God, the lowest recorded percentage in history, which has steadily declined since 1998.
NORC also found that 34% of Americans never go to church, the highest figure recorded in the five decades of surveys.
Another report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), which examines the religious landscape of the United States, found that as of 2022, 27% of Americans claim no religion at all.
PRRI, like NORC, has uncovered a historical decline in America’s Christian population. Reports show that self-proclaimed atheists make up 7% of the population, while agnostics, which believe one cannot know if God exists, make up another 7%.
Consistent with the aforementioned data, and as previously reported by FISM, more than half of Americans are now identifying with New-Age spiritualism, believing the pantheistic assertion that “everything is god and god is everything” and that they are capable of creating their own realities.
Results of a Pew Research Survey released early this year found that only 35% of American parents believe in the importance of passing faith onto their children, consistent with the profound societal degradation of Christian values upon which this country was founded.
Author’s Biblical Analysis
The Word of God warns against a worldly heart posture and speaks of grave consequences when turning away from the Lord.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world – the desire of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life – is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. – 1 John 2:15-17
Also, in 2 Timothy 4:3, we read:
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.