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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus6/18/2022 12:11:14 pm PDT

So Axios is running a story about Gallup’s religious poll (and Gallup has been doing this for a long time.)

Twitter runs with the Axios story instead of promoting the actual Gallup News story.

Anyway, the interesting thing about this Gallup story is that it is placed in the politics section.

Is Gallup trying to tell us something?

Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low

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.

Most other key subgroups have experienced at least a modest decline, although conservatives and married adults have had essentially no change.

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.