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hrmjustin

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Tue May 12, 2015, 04:10 PM May 2015

Christians lose ground, ‘nones’ soar in new portrait of US religion [View all]

Cathy Lynn Grossman

WASHINGTON (RNS) The United States is a significantly less Christian country than it was seven years ago.

That’s the top finding — one that will ricochet through American faith, culture and politics — in the Pew Research Center’s newest report, “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” released Tuesday (May 12).

This trend “is big, it’s broad and it’s everywhere,” said Alan Cooperman, Pew’s director of religion research.

Christianity still dominates American religious identity (70 percent), but the survey shows dramatic shifts as more people move out the doors of denominations, shedding spiritual connections along the way.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/05/12/christians-lose-ground-nones-soar-new-portrait-u-s-religion/



Heartbreaking that peolle are leaving the faith.

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