{"id":818,"date":"2022-06-19T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:10:12","slug":"gallup-poll-belief-in-god-in-us-dips-to-81-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Gallup poll: &#8220;Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d3fc6c7200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"God the father\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d3fc6c7200b img-responsive\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d3fc6c7200b-300wi\" style=\"width: 216px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"God the father\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No surprise of course. Understandable if you view God is a guy with a white beard floating on a cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/393737\/belief-god-dips-new-low.aspx\"> The vast majority of U.S. adults believe in God, but the 81% who do so is down six percentage points from 2017 and is the lowest in Gallup&#39;s trend. Between 1944 and 2011, more than 90% of Americans believed in God.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Gallup&#39;s May 2-22 Values and Beliefs poll finds 17% of Americans saying they do not believe in God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">********************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Gallup has also in recent years asked <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/193271\/americans-believe-god.aspx\">other questions aimed at measuring belief in God<\/a> or a higher power. All find the vast majority of Americans saying they believe; when given the option, 5% to 10% have said they were &quot;unsure.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Belief in God has fallen the most in recent years among young adults and people on the left of the political spectrum (liberals and Democrats). These groups show drops of 10 or more percentage points comparing the 2022 figures to an average of the 2013-2017 polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Most other key subgroups have experienced at least a modest decline, although conservatives and married adults have had essentially no change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The groups with the largest declines are also the groups that are currently least likely to believe in God, including liberals (62%), young adults (68%) and Democrats (72%). Belief in God is highest among political conservatives (94%) and Republicans (92%), reflecting that religiosity is a major determinant of political divisions in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise of course. Understandable if you view God is a guy with a white beard floating on a cloud. The vast majority of U.S. adults believe in God, but the 81% who do so is down six percentage points from 2017 and is the lowest in Gallup&#39;s trend. Between 1944 and 2011, more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}