Americans Faith in God Eroding

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Americans’ faith in God may be eroding

God is frequently invoked in American public life. Indeed, there is no shortage of instances of official acknowledgement of the divine, from the appearance of “In God We Trust” on our currency to the phrase “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.

To be sure, the vast majority of Americans still believe in God. But there are strong signs that many are less certain about this belief than in years past. And a small but growing minority of Americans say they do not believe in God at all.

When asked if they believe in “God or a universal spirit” in the Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study, 89% of U.S. adults say yes – down from 92% from the previous RLS in 2007. Nearly one-in-ten (9%) now say they don’t believe in God, up from 5% in 2007.

The changes have been even more substantial when it comes to certainty of belief in God: 63% of Americans are absolutely certain that God exists, down 8 percentage points from 2007, when 71% said this.

These shifts have been especially sharp among the growing share of Americans who do not identify with any religious group (and call themselves atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular”). While 22% of these religious “nones” said that they did not believe in God in 2007, that figure has risen to 33% in 2014. And just 27% of the religiously unaffiliated are absolutely certain that God exists, down from 36% in 2007.
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When we turn our backs on the Divine, we loose our purpose.
 
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Our very definition of God ,(it seems to me) is different depending on who you talk to .The word God has been so watered down, and made to encompass all religions ,and point of views. It must fit our lifestyles ,because the old version of a divine God is not politically correct in today's world .It seems there is no good ,no evil, only differences of opinion .No right ,no wrong,because a good God wouldn't be judgmental. The vast majority lost their purpose years ago when "In God we trust "became nothing more than a catch phrase.
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Regardless of what one calls the superior being, or even if one does not believe in a superior being, most people know the right way to treat other humans and creatures who roam the earth; most people know right from wrong. We just need to remind ourselves from time to time.
 
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