Welcome to Post-Christian America — Market Mad House

Welcome to Post-Christian America, the data shows that the Post-Christian United States is a reality. However, America’s leaders do not recognize that reality.

Polling data shows that nonreligious people are now America’s largest religious group. In fact, data from the Pew Religious Landscape Study shows 45.7% of Americans could identify as nonreligious or actively secular.

To elaborate Pew estimates the level of Americans that identify as religiously unaffiliated at 22.8% and those who admit their faith is “nothing in particular” at 15.8%. Additionally, Pew calculates that 3.1% of Americans call themselves atheists and 4% identify as agnostic.

However, the Gallup Organization’s 2017 Update on Americans and Religion finds 33%, one third, of Americans identify as “not religious at all.” Plus, Gallup estimates 21.3% of Americans had “no religious identity” in 2017, that percentage was up from 20.8% in 2016.

The Non-Religious are America’s most Important Religion

If Pew’s estimates are accurate, the popular image of America as a religious nation is dead wrong.

Notably, Pew estimates that “religious nones” outnumber every faith but Evangelical Protestants; who could compose 25.4% of the…