Gallop: This Christmas season, 78% of American adults identify with some form of Christian religion. Did you realize 78% of all Americans and 95% of those with faith are Christians? Yes-No
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PRINCETON, NJ -- This Christmas season, 78% of American adults identify with some form of Christian religion. Less than 2% are Jewish, less than 1% are Muslim, and 11% do not have a religious identity. This means that 95% of all Americans who have a religious identity are Christians.
These results are based on a compilation of 327,244 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking from January-November 2012. The detailed breakdown shows that about a third of American Christians are Catholics, while two-thirds identify as Protestants or some other non-Catholic Christian religion. All in all, 82.5% of Americans have some form of religious identity.
Gallup's methods of measuring religious identity have changed over the decades, but one major trend that is clear from Gallup's and other organizations' surveys is the increase in the percentage of Americans who do not have a formal religious identity. Some 60 years ago, in 1951, for example, just 1% of Americans in Gallup surveys said they didn't have a religious identity. At that time, Gallup classified 68% of Americans as identifying with a non-Catholic Christian faith, and 24% who were Catholic.
Separate Gallup questioning earlier this year shows that 92% of Americans say they believe in God. This suggests that the lack of a religious identity is not in and of itself a sign of the total absence of religiosity.
Additionally, in two separate surveys conducted in May and in late November/early December of this year, an average of 55% of Americans said religion is very important in their lives, another 26% said it is fairly important, and 19% said it is not very important.
These results are based on a compilation of 327,244 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking from January-November 2012. The detailed breakdown shows that about a third of American Christians are Catholics, while two-thirds identify as Protestants or some other non-Catholic Christian religion. All in all, 82.5% of Americans have some form of religious identity.
Gallup's methods of measuring religious identity have changed over the decades, but one major trend that is clear from Gallup's and other organizations' surveys is the increase in the percentage of Americans who do not have a formal religious identity. Some 60 years ago, in 1951, for example, just 1% of Americans in Gallup surveys said they didn't have a religious identity. At that time, Gallup classified 68% of Americans as identifying with a non-Catholic Christian faith, and 24% who were Catholic.
Separate Gallup questioning earlier this year shows that 92% of Americans say they believe in God. This suggests that the lack of a religious identity is not in and of itself a sign of the total absence of religiosity.
Additionally, in two separate surveys conducted in May and in late November/early December of this year, an average of 55% of Americans said religion is very important in their lives, another 26% said it is fairly important, and 19% said it is not very important.
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lm1b2 2012/11/23 16:59:38
Not so much to preach, but to say "Hey, wait a minute - THAT isn't right!" or "Here, Let Me help You With That!"
Did I know that Christians are the predomiant religious group in my country? Yep.
God's opinion of me, is all that matters, because we all know, human beings are never satisfied with each other and, we'll always fault with one another.
I still advocate for separation between Church and State, though. Nothing against people of a conventional/traditional faith but I don't think even Christians have a consistent belief other than that Christ was their Savior.
I have been exposingAtheistt hate for two days, it's a beautiful thing and very easy to do, thanks for your help.
This country has no official religion, therefor it is not a Christian Nation.
It was not founded by Christians, it was founded by men with a variety of religious beliefs.
It was not founded on Christian principles, but rather on the secular rule of law.
You're flat out wrong. Everyone like you is flat out wrong. The country was formed as a secular nation by men of varying religions. That is fact.
No, law derived from English common law and the writings of philosophers, mainly Locke and Hume.
"values,your right we have no official Religion,we have a christian value called Freedom of Religion which these Christian Men put into our Constitution."
LOL Um, no. Freedom of Religion is far from a Christian concept. Is your education in history so deficient that you haven't heard about the Crusades? Or witch hunts? Or the colonization of the Americas? Or any of the innumerable conflicts between Christianity and other religions?
Freedom of Religion is a secular concept.
And I told you before, the Founding Fathers were a VARIETY of religions. They were not all Christians.
"You can deny it all you want,but we owe everything to Christian Men"
It's not denial, kiddo, it's accuracy.
Yes, it is populated predominantly by Christians. But that does not make us a Christian nation.
"Being" a Christian entails going to church regularly, although that, in itself, is not enough. There is a lot more to actually being a Christian than just going to church, (which is beyond the scope of any posts here to explain).
Just because someone goes to church does not necessarily mean they are real Christians. That is why a lot of people say that so many Christians are hypocrites. The thing is that most of those who seem like hypocrites are not really Christian deep down. I believe that Satan uses these people to discredit Christianity.
Besides that, studying will give you 'head knowledge' which does not always reach the heart.
I think they're just expected to know what they believe and why.
It is the "trap" questions they cannot answer.
There are hundreds of quotations from the Bible that secular people latch onto, which have been either taken completely out of context or have been (deliberately or otherwise) misunderstood and presented to young (inexperienced) Christians.
Satan tried this tactic with Jesus in the desert. Jesus, however, knew the scriptures better than Satan did.
Besides all this, when atheists, etc ask a Christian to explain a point of faith, they are usually not interested in the answer and do not listen. Instead their minds are searching for the next question they think they can trap the Christian with.
I am happy to spend any amount of time explaining my faith to anyone who I believe is GENUINELY interested in learning. If I believe that they are merely out to trap me I am not interested - even if they think that they have 'won' the arguement. What they think does not really bother me.