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March 09, 2009
Is America Less Religious?
The short answer: yes.
(CNN) -- America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found.This isn't all that surprising to me, and I'm not sure why the story has been so controversial to people of faith, considering we've spent the last few years decrying the coarsening of our culture. To me, this poll is confirmation of what I've observed - culture suffers when God is diminished. I hope the results are not dismissed out of hand, but are taken as a call to action by the church.Seventy-five percent of Americans call themselves Christian, according to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990, the figure was 86 percent.
Posted by slublog at March 9, 2009 11:36 PM
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I don't know that the diminishing of god is the cause of cultural coarsening, I suspect both are a result of increased personal freedom and the ability to choose a path in life without strong social pressures to conform to existing structures.
Posted by: Black at March 10, 2009 08:24 PM