{"id":113162,"date":"2022-06-17T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113162"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:14:41","slug":"gallup-belief-in-god-in-u-s-dips-to-81-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113162","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s trend. Between 1944 and 2011, more than 90% of Americans believed in God.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup&#8217;s May 2-22 Values and Beliefs poll finds 17% of Americans saying they do not believe in God.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup first asked this question in 1944, repeating it again in 1947 and twice each in the 1950s and 1960s. In those latter four surveys, a consistent 98% said they believed in God. When Gallup asked the question nearly five decades later, in 2011, 92% of Americans said they believed in God.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent survey in 2013 found belief in God dipping below 90% to 87%, roughly where it stood in three subsequent updates between 2014 and 2017 before this year&#8217;s drop to 81%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/393737\/belief-god-dips-new-low.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gallup has been asking Americans since 1944 whether they believe in God. The number just reached an all-time low. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cx7ztX8Ygf\">https:\/\/t.co\/Cx7ztX8Ygf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ruth Graham (@publicroad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/publicroad\/status\/1537839820961157121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s trend. Between 1944 and 2011, more than 90% of Americans believed in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113162\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113165,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113162\/revisions\/113165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}