A new Pew study finds that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years — and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades.
A new study modeled four scenarios for how religious affiliation could change in the U.S., and it projected that the percentage of people with no religious affiliation will rise.
"It's part of your whole professional network, your whole emotional community," she said."Basically, it touches every facet of your life."Eliza Campbell said she started thinking about disaffiliating from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around age 20, but it took years to formally leave the church.She is one of a growing number of Americans who were raised Christian but are disaffiliating from the religion.
The study modeled four scenarios for how religious affiliation could change, and in every case it found a sharp drop in Christianity. "Other people point out that affiliation really started to drop in the '90s. And it may not be a coincidence that this coincides with the rise of the religious right and more associations between Christianity and conservative political ideology."
"That's where the majority of the movement is going," Kramer said."We don't see a lot of people leaving Christianity for a non-Christian religion." "It's almost what I expect," Hasan Tauha, a student at Stanford University, said of the rising numbers of religiously unaffiliated people in the United States.
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