Religious ‘switching’ patterns will help determine Christianity’s course in U.S.
Whether the U.S. will continue to have a Christian majority in 2070 will depend on many factors, including religious “switching.”
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Whether the U.S. will continue to have a Christian majority in 2070 will depend on many factors, including religious “switching.”
Most Americans say it’s not necessary to believe in God in order to be moral and have good values, according to a spring 2022 survey.
In 2020, properties in 102 of the 198 countries and territories in the study were targeted in incidents tied to religion.
Highly religious Americans are much more likely to see society in those terms, while nonreligious people tend to see more ambiguity.
The 118th Congress achieved a variety of demographic milestones when its members took office, though it still remains out of step with the U.S. population.
Among the 32 places surveyed, support for legal same-sex marriage is highest in Sweden, where 92% of adults favor it, and lowest in Nigeria, where only 2% back it.
The U.S. population grew by 24.5 million from 2010 to 2022, and Hispanics accounted for 53% of this increase.
U.S. adults who are affiliated with a religion are less likely than religiously unaffiliated adults to support broadly legal marijuana.
The U.S. Muslim population has grown in the decades since 9/11, but views toward them have become increasingly polarized along political lines.
Most U.S. adults do not believe that requests for religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine are sincere.
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