I hope everyone read the article in New York Times about Christianity! Below is the article in New York Times and site to read the whole article for yourselves. What is causing this falling away from the Body of Christ. No longer labeling themselves as a Christian.
1. False prophets, teachers, ministers and foolishness in churches.
2. Strife, schisms, dogma, philosophy, by-laws, dead religion, indoctrination.
3. Holy Spirit is raining within the Body of Christ
4. Bondage
5. Lack of truth of the Word of God
6. Programs, conferences, concerts that has nothing to do with God
7. Church is mirroring the world(flesh).
8. Lack of Unconditional love for others
9. Judgmental Attitudes towards others belief(Sabbath Keeping or Ten Commandments)
10 Legalistic Tendencies towards others
11. Money hungry pastors
12. Rejecting the poor and oppress
13.Rejecting the TRUTH of GOD
Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian
The Christian share of adults in the United States has declined sharply since 2007, affecting nearly all major Christian traditions and denominations, and crossing age, race and region, according to an extensive survey by the Pew Research Center.
Seventy-one percent of American adults were Christian in 2014, the lowest estimate from any sizable survey to date, and a decline of 5 million adults and 8 percentage points since a similar Pew survey in 2007.
The Christian share of the population has been declining for decades, but the pace rivals or even exceeds that of the country’s most significant demographic trends, like the growing Hispanic population. It is not confined to the coasts, the cities, the young or the other liberal and more secular groups where one might expect it, either.
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The decline has been propelled in part by generational change, as relatively non-Christian millennials reach adulthood and gradually replace the oldest and most Christian adults. But it is also because many former Christians, of all ages, have joined the rapidly growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated or “nones”: a broad category including atheists, agnostics and those who adhere to “nothing in particular.”
Unaffiliated Rise; Christians Fall
The Christian share of adults fell to 70.6 percent from 78.4 percent between 2007 and 2014, with declines among all major Christian denominations.
Religious affiliation among adults
%
Evangelical Protestant
Catholic
Mainline Protestant
Unaffiliated
Non-Christian Faiths
Source: The Pew Research Center
The Pew survey, which included 35,000 adults, offers an unusually comprehensive account of religion in the United States because the Census Bureau does not ask Americans about their religion. Most other nongovernmental surveys do not interview enough adults to allow precise estimates, do not ask other detailed questions about religion or do not have older surveys for comparison.
The report does not offer an explanation for the decline of the Christian population, but the low levels of Christian affiliation among the young, well educated and affluent are consistent with prevailing theories for the rise of the unaffiliated, like the politicization of religion by American conservatives, a broader disengagement from all traditional institutions and labels, the combination of delayed and interreligious marriage, and economic development.
Over all, the religiously unaffiliated number 56 million and represent 23 percent of adults, up from 36 million and 16 percent in 2007, Pew estimates. Nearly half of the growth was from atheists and agnostics, whose tallies nearly doubled to 7 percent of adults. The remainder of the unaffiliated, those who describe themselves as having “no particular religion,” were less likely to say that religion was an important part of their lives than eight years ago.
The ranks of the unaffiliated have been bolstered by former Christians. Nearly a quarter of people who were raised as Christian have left the group, and ex-Christians now represent 19 percent of adults.
Attrition was most substantial among mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics, who have declined in absolute numbers and as a share of the population since 2007. The acute decline in the Catholic population, which fell by roughly 3 million, is potentially a new development. Most surveys have found that the Catholic share of the population has been fairly stable over the last few decades, in no small part because it has been reinforced by migration from Latin America.
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1. False prophets, teachers, ministers and foolishness in churches.
2. Strife, schisms, dogma, philosophy, by-laws, dead religion, indoctrination.
3. Holy Spirit is raining within the Body of Christ
4. Bondage
5. Lack of truth of the Word of God
6. Programs, conferences, concerts that has nothing to do with God
7. Church is mirroring the world(flesh).
8. Lack of Unconditional love for others
9. Judgmental Attitudes towards others belief(Sabbath Keeping or Ten Commandments)
10 Legalistic Tendencies towards others
11. Money hungry pastors
12. Rejecting the poor and oppress
13.Rejecting the TRUTH of GOD
- Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian
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Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian
The Christian share of adults in the United States has declined sharply since 2007, affecting nearly all major Christian traditions and denominations, and crossing age, race and region, according to an extensive survey by the Pew Research Center.
Seventy-one percent of American adults were Christian in 2014, the lowest estimate from any sizable survey to date, and a decline of 5 million adults and 8 percentage points since a similar Pew survey in 2007.
The Christian share of the population has been declining for decades, but the pace rivals or even exceeds that of the country’s most significant demographic trends, like the growing Hispanic population. It is not confined to the coasts, the cities, the young or the other liberal and more secular groups where one might expect it, either.
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SeoulMorality and religious belief are independent variables; the presence of one does not indicate the presence of the other.
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The decline has been propelled in part by generational change, as relatively non-Christian millennials reach adulthood and gradually replace the oldest and most Christian adults. But it is also because many former Christians, of all ages, have joined the rapidly growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated or “nones”: a broad category including atheists, agnostics and those who adhere to “nothing in particular.”
Unaffiliated Rise; Christians Fall
The Christian share of adults fell to 70.6 percent from 78.4 percent between 2007 and 2014, with declines among all major Christian denominations.
Religious affiliation among adults
%
25
20
15
10
5
0
20
15
10
5
0
Evangelical Protestant
Catholic
Mainline Protestant
Unaffiliated
Non-Christian Faiths
2007
2014
Source: The Pew Research Center
The Pew survey, which included 35,000 adults, offers an unusually comprehensive account of religion in the United States because the Census Bureau does not ask Americans about their religion. Most other nongovernmental surveys do not interview enough adults to allow precise estimates, do not ask other detailed questions about religion or do not have older surveys for comparison.
The report does not offer an explanation for the decline of the Christian population, but the low levels of Christian affiliation among the young, well educated and affluent are consistent with prevailing theories for the rise of the unaffiliated, like the politicization of religion by American conservatives, a broader disengagement from all traditional institutions and labels, the combination of delayed and interreligious marriage, and economic development.
Over all, the religiously unaffiliated number 56 million and represent 23 percent of adults, up from 36 million and 16 percent in 2007, Pew estimates. Nearly half of the growth was from atheists and agnostics, whose tallies nearly doubled to 7 percent of adults. The remainder of the unaffiliated, those who describe themselves as having “no particular religion,” were less likely to say that religion was an important part of their lives than eight years ago.
The ranks of the unaffiliated have been bolstered by former Christians. Nearly a quarter of people who were raised as Christian have left the group, and ex-Christians now represent 19 percent of adults.
Attrition was most substantial among mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics, who have declined in absolute numbers and as a share of the population since 2007. The acute decline in the Catholic population, which fell by roughly 3 million, is potentially a new development. Most surveys have found that the Catholic share of the population has been fairly stable over the last few decades, in no small part because it has been reinforced by migration from Latin America.
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