LINK Poll Reveals American Church Membership Is At An All-Time Low
Church used to be a place where many people gathered to observe the Lord’s Day on Sundays. However, in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer church goers actually going. In fact, church membership is at the lowest it has been in years.
According to a recent poll from Gallup, it turns out that memberships have been on the decline since last year, and dropped below 50% for the first time in the company’s eight decades of taking the poll.
In 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic when everything basically shut down. 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. That’s down from 50% in 2018 and a whopping 70% in 1999.
For context, U.S. church membership was at 73% when Gallup first measured it in 1937 and stayed near that percentage over the course of the next 60 years. The turn of the 21st century was when things began to decline for church memberships, and now it’s at an all-time low.
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Religionists trying to gain more attendance by pushing their agenda is like Putler (what the Ukrainians call him) trying to stop countries from joining NATO by invading them.
JackPedigo
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May 22, 2022
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Shades of what has been happening in Scotland for decades: [bbc.com]
anglophone
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May 21, 2022
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This is the 'atheist rapture' going o. Though slower than the one Christian aligned cults anticipate for themselves, it will nevertheless result in THEM being left behing in an unmanageable non-reality. We're emancipated and they remain trapped and abandoned, in dwindling numbers.
Silver1wun
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May 21, 2022
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We shall see..
People must be getting smart.
Alienbeing
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May 21, 2022
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If only they were....
@snytiger6 We can only hope.
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