The American landscape is changing rapidly.
Forget the surge of socialism threatened by the 2020 Democrats. There’s a threat on the horizon that’s been looming for quite some time.
The General Social Survey of the University of Chicago released a disturbing survey last week that outlined the sharp increase in nonreligious persons and atheists in America. The atheistic and agnostic group of people called “nones” (no religious affiliation) has skyrocketed 266 percent in nearly the past three decades, while the Protestant sect of Christianity has plummeted more than 60 percent since 1982.
As a result only 10 percent of the Protestant base still exists in America.
Pundits offer a few explanations to this seemingly massive departure from Christian faith. In an interview with Daily Mail, political science professor Ryan Burge cites one of the big reasons that Americans are increasingly becoming more secular:
An ideological change in politics, he says.
Social issues have pushed their way into the realm of faith, with an increasing amount of Americans willing to walk away from it all together. And social issues have never been more of a calling card for Democrats as it is now. As the shift toward massive social upheaval takes place, the more likely it is that the radical left will stray far away from religion.
As a professor at Eastern Illinois University and Baptist pastor, Burge also morbidly predicts the loss of Christian faith to continue at an alarming rate, similar to Scandinavian nations, France and Australia.
Europe as a whole has been on a pathway to the closing out of religion. Burge sees a correlation between development and religion.
“The big questions is what next in terms of what religion is going to look like in America,” he said. “Secularization theory argues that as countries become more industrialized and prosperous then the throwing off of religion becomes more normalized.”
For America this bring into question the pro-liberal mega tech giants who’ve overrun cities such as Silicon Valley and Seattle. Big tech’s role in the rejection of religion, therefore, should be monitored as America continues to grow.
According to LifeWay Research, a Nashville, Tenn. based religious studies group, about two-thirds of American young adults aged 18-22 had stopped going to church regularly.
Wow.
This is no small concern. Young adults will be next in line to serve as leaders for America. As the nation continues to be monopolized by companies like Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, that statistic must be considered more seriously.
Professor Burge is feeling the effects of this on his homefront as well.
“My church is on the decline,” he said. “We had 50 (congregants) in 2005 and now we have 15. We’re probably going to have to close (in a few years).”
“Mainline Christianity is dying,” he added. “It’s at least going away. It makes me feel more comfortable that it’s not my fault or my church’s fault. It’s part of a bigger trend that’s happening.”
The Horn editorial team