Is Christianity on the decline in the United States?

[TheIndianGirl]

Any thoughts? I believe the decline in Christianity is quite obvious in the white population. I believe African Americans have not lost their faith generally speaking; most of them are not flat out atheists or agnostics. Thankfully, most of the Hispanics which is a growing population are Christians. So, I don't believe Christianity is on the decline...it is at least holding steady despite the huge decline in the white population.

 

[iamsoandso]

Any thoughts? I believe the decline in Christianity is quite obvious in the white population. I believe African Americans have not lost their faith generally speaking; most of them are not flat out atheists or agnostics. Thankfully, most of the Hispanics which is a growing population are Christians. So, I don't believe Christianity is on the decline...it is at least holding steady despite the huge decline in the white population.

lol, that's almost like a loaded question,lol... I don't think it's a race based thing at all what it is is that the US is a melting pot of races sort of as if you took the confusion of tongues at Babel and reversed that decision made by God. Other than that in my experience I know many of every race you named that I consider Christians. The issue was that the nations were deceived,,so all the above races even the ones you left out of the OP are involved.

 

[TheIndianGirl]

lol, that's almost like a loaded question,lol... I don't think it's a race based thing at all what it is is that the US is a melting pot of races sort of as if you took the confusion of tongues at Babel and reversed that decision made by God. Other than that in my experience I know many of every race you named that I consider Christians. The issue was that the nations were deceived,,so all the above races even the ones you left out of the OP are involved.

I know it's not race based but the big change from Christian to agnostic/atheist is coming from the white population. Black and Latino populations do not really become atheists/agnostics, or deny Christ or show hate towards Christians based on my observations.

 

[iamsoandso]

I know it's not race based but the big change from Christian to agnostic/atheist is coming from the white population. Black and Latino populations do not really become atheists/agnostics, or deny Christ or show hate towards Christians based on my observations.

Every town seems different I suppose the important thing is to acknowledge who you see in yours.

 

[DWR]

Are you asking about real Christians or those who claim to be Christians?
Most people I meet today who claim to be Christian have no idea what being a Christian is.
So in my opinion TRUE Christians are few in number today.

 

[SarahUmbreon]

Hmm, so from what I know, it says in the Bible that following God will be hard, and nowadays people don’t like doing hard stuff. There are a great number of people who care about feelings, more than facts or anything said in the Bible.

But I wouldn’t say Christianity is going downwards, plenty of people at churches, apparently at the church we visited today to support my mom’s friend changing churches, they had 130 people at a service, in our tiny town of basically 950 people. I think since we have seen the backlash, Christians are less likely to speak up/claim you are Christian. I’ll never forget this, Steve Crowder (I don’t watch him as much as I used to), he was out in Austin with one of his “Change my mind” tables, he apparently saw on Twitter that someone posted a picture of his van, and the post asked people to pop the van’s tires. Steve, being who he is, confronted the person who sent out that Twitter at his job, but seeing how easy it is to try to get people to attack other people/send death threats, it makes people want to be quite, such as myself sometimes.

I’ll tell people at work to have a “God blessed day”, but if I were in a big city, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone yelled something hateful at me for saying that.

That’s just coming off my thought process, so please take what I say with a grain of salt, as I’m just saying my opinion.

 

[TheIndianGirl]

Are you asking about real Christians or those who claim to be Christians?
Most people I meet today who claim to be Christian have no idea what being a Christian is.
So in my opinion TRUE Christians are few in number today.

I don't necessarily mean only active church going or mature Christians. I'm also including the lazy Christians who pray to Jesus when trouble comes.

 

[stepbystep]

I wonder about the Hispanic Community you spoke of. Are the majority of them not Catholic? Is the Catholic Religion the same as the Christian Faith? There are many groups that say they are part of the Christian Faith, but I am not sure they are. Mormons being one.

Also, Government Statistics show that a large part of the Citizens identify themselves as Christian, but the majority of them do not attend Church, or live Christian lives. They identify as Christians because their Parents or Grandparents are/were Christians. Some of them manage to go to Church on Christmas and Easter, but some of them do not even bother to do that.

In a past life, I was amused at the number of people in the local bars (on Friday or Saturday night) would heartily join in when the Band would play Amazing Grace. Drunk barflies singing Amazing Grace can either be inspiring or amusing I suppose.

 

[SoulWeaver]

Are you asking about real Christians or those who claim to be Christians?
Most people I meet today who claim to be Christian have no idea what being a Christian is.
So in my opinion TRUE Christians are few in number today.

True Christians have always been few in number. The truth doesn't change, yesterday today or tomorrow. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

 

[TheIndianGirl]

I wonder about the Hispanic Community you spoke of. Are the majority of them not Catholic? Is the Catholic Religion the same as the Christian Faith? There are many groups that say they are part of the Christian Faith, but I am not sure they are. Mormons being one.

Also, Government Statistics show that a large part of the Citizens identify themselves as Christian, but the majority of them do not attend Church, or live Christian lives. They identify as Christians because their Parents or Grandparents are/were Christians. Some of them manage to go to Church on Christmas and Easter, but some of them do not even bother to do that.

In a past life, I was amused at the number of people in the local bars (on Friday or Saturday night) would heartily join in when the Band would play Amazing Grace. Drunk barflies singing Amazing Grace can either be inspiring or amusing I suppose.

I wouldn't consider JW or Mormans as Christians, but Catholics are Christian. For the purposes of this question, I'm going by government statistics, based on how people identify themselves. I do not believe the Black and Hispanic community identify themselves as agnostics or atheists like the white community.

 

[DWR]

I wouldn't consider JW or Mormans as Christians, but Catholics are Christian. For the purposes of this question, I'm going by government statistics, based on how people identify themselves. I do not believe the Black and Hispanic community identify themselves as agnostics or atheists like the white community.

The key is not how a person identifies him self but how God identifies him.
I am afraid that many have a false assurance of their standing with God.
Going to a church, or evening being a member of a local church does not make one a Christian.
Its ones personal relationship with the Savior that determines if a person has eternal life or not.

 

[TheIndianGirl]

The key is not how a person identifies him self but how God identifies him.
I am afraid that many have a false assurance of their standing with God.
Going to a church, or evening being a member of a local church does not make one a Christian.
Its ones personal relationship with the Savior that determines if a person has eternal life or not.

I agree. My point was that the Black and Hispanic community do not self identify themselves as agnostic/atheist or show hate towards Christianity/think Christianity is dumb etc like the white population, in the U.S. (not talking about other parts of the world). I got into this topic because I was researching decline of Christianity in Europe whereas in the Global South Christianity is increasing, and I got thinking.

 

[Runningman]

If you are basing your analysis off of what you see on television and the Internet then I can see why you would arrive at that conclusion. Christian ideals don't exactly get promoted very often.

You might notice that it isn't necessarily that Christianity is on a decline among white people, but rather that's the perception they would have you believe. There are a few Christians among the powers that be, but mostly there is an anti-Christian agenda and the media uses propaganda to spread their influence.

The propaganda machine in Western nations is larger than you may presently realize and they aim to influence the entire world with the ideas in movies and music. Actually many countries ban Hollywood productions, not because they aren't entertaining, but because they are way too liberal in a way that aims to undermine stability.

 

[TravelerInTheWilderness]

I think so. People would rather follow the world and be liked. They want to chase what's popular. They want to be "relevant". No one wants to take a stand anymore.

 

[Lanolin]

dont know, but when people say 'population' are they always dividing the number of people by colour.

Or are they just counting the number of people in one given area, you know people with human DNA.

 

[Lanolin]

Look up pew research, they would probably be the most reliable source of info for the US.

 

[GraceAndTruth]

Any thoughts? I believe the decline in Christianity is quite obvious in the white population. I believe African Americans have not lost their faith generally speaking; most of them are not flat out atheists or agnostics. Thankfully, most of the Hispanics which is a growing population are Christians. So, I don't believe Christianity is on the decline...it is at least holding steady despite the huge decline in the white population.

Worse than a 'decline'.........we are living in Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

[Billyd]

Any thoughts? I believe the decline in Christianity is quite obvious in the white population. I believe African Americans have not lost their faith generally speaking; most of them are not flat out atheists or agnostics. Thankfully, most of the Hispanics which is a growing population are Christians. So, I don't believe Christianity is on the decline...it is at least holding steady despite the huge decline in the white population.

I believe that Christianity is not in decline, it is in free fall (across all ethnic groups).