Christianity projected to lose majority status among Americans by 2070, Pew model projects

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Projections indicate Christians could lose majority status in the United States by 2070, according to modeling released by the Pew Research Center Tuesday.

The study modeled four different hypothetical scenarios, each one representing a different rate of “switching,” which the Pew Research Center defined “as a change between the religion in which a person was raised (in childhood) and their present religious identity (in adulthood).”

Pew said its models examined a scenario in which switching rates remain the same, two scenarios in which switching rates speed up, and one scenario in which switching rates halt completely.

The number of Americans who identify as agnostic, atheist or don't affiliate with a particular religion has grown dramatically since the 1990s, according to the research center.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christianity-projected-to-lose-majority-status-among-americans-by-2070-pew-model-projects/ar-AA11Q8Q9?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EE04&cvid=5d2dd9f148c240498f845a7a90018deb

[FreepFryer]

1. E PLURIBUS UNUM (nt)

[canuckledragger]

2. And the Christofascists have nobody but themselves to blame for driving people away.

[dchill]

3. That's just not going to be soon enough.

[SunSeeker]

4. Yup. It says Christians might fall below 50% in 2070. They're 64% now.

Each scenario begins with the nation’s religious make-up in 2020, as estimated by the Pew Research Center: 64% Christian, 30% unaffiliated and 6% members of all other religions. 

Christians make up less than 50% of the country by 2070 in three of the four scenarios. 

[BWdem4life]

5. And 49% will still be too high.

It will still be the majority religion at that level. If anything, it couldmake things worse - just as racism has become worse as white people lose their grip on the country.

[lindysalsagal]

6. I think that's incorrect. Belief is in freefall. Cults are going to increase

but what us boomers call religion or church is in freefall.

Will other weirdo theologies emerge, like, flat earthers? Yup. Dooms-dayers will always be here. Cults of personality like tfg, sure. But what most of us think of as christian religion will dissipate much more quickly that that.

I think it's technology, and the fact that cell phones make the world so much smaller, and people so much more cosmopolitan.