Christianity is on the decline in the United States.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, new data from Gallup shows that church attendance has dropped across all polled Christian groups. As the following chart shows, the biggest drop in attendance in the past 20 years has been amongst Catholics, which has fallen from 45 percent of U.S. adults self-identifying as Catholic saying that they go to religious services weekly or at least every week in 2000-2003, down to 33 percent saying the same in 2021-2023.
This is a decrease of 12 percentage points. Catholics’ attendance is lower than their Protestant counterparts, which saw a drop of 4 percentage points in that time frame from 48 percent of worshipers to 44 percent.
You will find more infographics at Statista
According to Gallup’s data, this decline in church attendance among Christians speaks to a wider pattern across religion in the U.S. generally.
Where an average of 42 percent of U.S. adults attended religious services every week or nearly every week 20 years ago, now this figure is just 30 percent.
This is largely due to an increase in the share of U.S. adults who self-identify as having no religious affiliation.
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What a shit article. Mormons ain’t Christian
This nation becomes more secular every year. But secular is always at risk as spirituality disappears and Islam as a religion of force will eventually fill that gap in spirituality that is secular. We see that in many foreign countries today. Remember Islam is not tolerant.
Even if you are atheist or agnostic, support the Christians before you are forced to be a Muslim.
No one forced them to fly the rainbow flag out front and they shut the doors to the sanctuary when the flu came to town, so why would anyone go back?
Those that “attend church weekly or at least every week”?
What a fine piece of writing.
Letting old people die alone, without a loved one holding their hands is quite possibly one of the cruelest acts a society can come up with and the churches were complicit. Never forget. There is more spirituality around most families’ dinner tables than in churches.
Fuck that I want to die alone.
I don’t want anyone at my bedside who doesn’t want to be there when I am croking
How a nation treats it’s elderly and children is a good indicator of where it’s heart truly lies.
Amen to that.
Churches have turned into feminization machines.
Start a church for men only and the men will flock to it.
always was
why else has christianity always had castration cults?
Churches have failed the flock, they became apostate money whores…the little hat disease has permeated all things.
Church, Inc was the end for us. We had attended that particular church for well over a decade and saw the decline coming, then happen. The old pastor was in retirement mode for well over a year. The new one was promoted from within the staff. After the changeover the amount of staff ballooned. Every spouse was now also getting a paycheck from the church.
Even worse, sermons changed to not offend anyone all while attendance grew because it had become Sunday Social Club, a salve for the soul instead of a House of Worship and Learning. When my employer had issued a deadline for Clot Shot or Unemployment I made the decision based on my faith to choose God over money and my family was willing to be poor if necessary. As a last check, to clarify my motives, I asked to meet with the Pastor. I still, to this day, have not gotten a response.
Around the same time I was having a text conversation about other things with the Pastor at the church down south we attend when we are there. We have done volunteer work his church and kept in touch about other things. When I mentioned the local church not replying his response was “Call Me Now”. A church and pastor with only a passing association with my family showed the importance of a living and involved church.
We no longer attend locally and no one has ever contacted us to see if something happened to us. As much as I don’t like not being in God’s House, we watch the southern church online Sundays and that is where our tithes go now.
By giving them money, aren’t you just recreating the original problem?
Not so much, no. The volunteer work we did, and the mission of that church, is to bring Jesus to their community. While the church we left had a $11M budget in a small rural town there was no outreach whatsoever. It would have been so easy for them to be more involved in the community, even with free things such as cleaning up parks, but they did none of that.
The church where our $ goes now does many outreach programs such as a soup kitchen, helping poor/elderly with home repair, making sure poor children have school supplies, etc. Jesus instructed to feed his sheep and they are working to do it rather than adding staff. One of the things that draws us to possibly relocate there is a strong church community.
Volunteer work is one thing. Soup, repair, and helping kids (feed them hamburgers or give them books or shoes or something, school is fake and gay) can all be done yourself.
Tithe means tenth. That adds up real quick. As long as the ‘outreach’ is local and not involved with bringing in haitians or somalis or whatever, cool I guess. But it only takes a handful of families actually tithing before there is enough money for there to exist full-time parasites.
Maybe I’m just a cheap bastard and I can see that money going a lot further if a person handles it themself. Or I’m just jaded by the masses of charlatan sheep-shearers with their hands out.
A LOT of what you stated is much the same as our experiences brother.
We moved from the northern british commuista back south because my injuries didn’t like the cold and most of family lived here in the south. When we came back we grudgingly went to a pentecostal church as choices are few here.
After the first service my wife and I looked at each other with a big sigh, we knew we were supposed to stay. So we stayed and started a youth group, the first the church ever had and it was with two kids. Our goals were simple, relationship with God first, preferring others over yourself and having a bit of fun doing both. Never playschool.
In two years we were getting 75 plus kids on a friday night. And it got to the point where the ‘pastor’ felt threatened because he was a hiringly only doing the minimum but always asking for a raise. He came to me one day and stated that we had enough kids and didn’t need anymore. You know my response. From that day forward he and a couple board members actively worked against me and in the end ‘invited’ us to leave and not return.
Haven’t been to a church in decades. I actually have better relationships with Godly people now because theres no ‘church’ involved. Just two people and God in the middle. As its supposed to be.
Stay strong the battles are not over yet.
1 Corinthians 6:19 KJB… “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
I see MORE people attending service where we live. It is glorious. Praise God!
It’s not that people are leaving the Faith or abandoning Christ or the church gatherings.
It’s that the covid psyop showed many that they were getting nothing out of the services, the focus is on money, spending more time (1-2 hrs) preaching for dough than the actual sermon. Then, preaching pablum.
Many have not abandon anything or anyone-but continue their worship, learning and studying at home.
Preachers, clergy need to get the memo. They blame the pew sitters that leave and have no clue it is THEM and what they are spewing and doing. They say: “Don’t forsake gathering together!” (Except when the gov orders you to shut down and you fold like a wet rag. hey- don’t ever preach Daniel again. You failed the test.)
Ever hear this?: ‘Wherever 2 or more are gathered together, there I will be in the midst of them.’ That’s church right there, because people are the church, not a building.
Even non denominational is a denomination now, focusing on politics and other worldly issues and trying way too hard to be progressive and accepted.
For those who don’t know — keep in mind that the CHURCH IS NOT a building or a house or a tent or any other type structure.
It’s all those pope scandals and how he endorses fake homo and lezbo phony marriages, so sad, it’s often said u can’t measure the size of heLL, so it’ll be big enuF for all the atheists for sure, we believe in God always have, yes 24 is the final year , Rapture this summer before AUG
No surprise there.
I already left churches almost 20 years ago now because none of them ever taught anything worthwhile, and they all still do not. I knew I had to leave when I kept posing questions that the pastors never could or would answer.
None of them “knew their own book”, as all they repeated was what they learned in the seminaries from other men, which of course was all carefully controlled and managed, no different than the medical field.
Having moved on from any sort of religion belief patterns at all, I’ve also found that one has to be careful in the statements you make in conversations with people.
If you end up either directly or even indirectly stripping away people’s preconceived notions of “reality” or their belief patterns they’ve held for decades, that can turn very ugly, and sometimes violent. It’s like something “breaks” in their minds which results in a ugly outburst.
I like my current church and my former church. We attend as often as we can. Mormons are not Christians.
“Buddy Jesus” killed our nation’s respect for the Divine.