Since 1944, Gallup has polled Americans on their belief in God. Up until 2011, at least 90% of people in the US were believers. Since then, the number has dropped and it’s now at its lowest low since the survey began. According to the latest poll results, released today, 81% of American adults believe in God. No word though on how many Gods believe in America. From Gallup:
Belief in God has fallen the most in recent years among young adults and people on the left of the political spectrum (liberals and Democrats). These groups show drops of 10 or more percentage points comparing the 2022 figures to an average of the 2013-2017 polls[…]
The groups with the largest declines are also the groups that are currently least likely to believe in God, including liberals (62%), young adults (68%) and Democrats (72%). Belief in God is highest among political conservatives (94%) and Republicans (92%), reflecting that religiosity is a major determinant of political divisions in the U.S[…]
A follow-up question in the survey probed further into what Americans’ belief in God entails. Specifically, the question asked whether God hears prayers and whether God intervenes when people pray.
About half of those who believe in God — equal to 42% of all Americans — say God hears prayers and can intervene on a person’s behalf. Meanwhile, 28% of all Americans say God hears prayers but cannot intervene, while 11% think God does neither.
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All one has to do is look around at the world to know that no, there is no powerful ‘god’ in charge. And if there were, if , as Christians purportedly believe, this ‘god’ “created man in his image”, then god is a cruel and evil being, at best. Hugs
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Hello Jill. What stuns me is not that people believe in the old gods, but why do people believe in new modern religious sects that that clearly started as grifts and scams? Hugs
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Well, once upon a time I thought people believed because it brought them comfort to think there was, perhaps, order amidst the chaos and a ‘better’ place to be at the end of the day. As Marx aptly said, though, governments used that to keep people in line. But with today’s cults that don’t even pretend to adhere to the Christian bible, the only answer I can come up with is that they gravitate toward whatever fits the world as they WANT it to be, not as it is. Does that make any sense? Hugs
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Hello Jill. Yes it does. I guess in areas where a religion is popular or the majority it is a case of following the others and wanting to be a member of the in group. Many hugs
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MANY people enjoy/thrive being in “a group.” Church/religion is just one example. It’s just unfortunate that what holds them together in a religious setting is a return to childhood fairy tales. One would like to believe that as adults we have moved on …
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