The Pew Foundation has periodically surveyed Americans concerning their involvement with organized religion. As is true in virtually all developed "first world" nations, our religiosity is declining.
Writing at The Federalist, John Daniel Davidson views these numbers with alarm. Hat tip to RealClearPolicy for the link.
Davidson asserts, without explaining:The share of Americans who don’t identify with any religion—the “nones” — increased from 16 percent in 2007 to 23 percent in 2014 to 29 percent in 2024. This increase isn’t limited to growing irreligiosity among any particular group but is “demographically broad-based,” says Pew. “There are fewer Christians and more ‘nones’ among men and women; people in every racial and ethnic category; college graduates and those with less education; and residents of all major regions of the country.”
Buried in Pew’s analysis is the critical observation that “it is inevitable that older generations will decline in size as their members gradually die. We also know that the younger cohorts succeeding them are much less religious.”
If America loses the Christian faith from which our system of government is derived, we will lose everything that makes America what it is. All of the rights and freedoms we enjoy, the rule of law, the checks and balances on government power, all of that will disappear.
I am of the opinion that his assertion is unprovable, and likely incorrect. Our Constitution establishes no state religion, which suggests our founders didn't see an unbreakable link between Christianity and our form of government. I trust their judgment.
