Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate

Are you one of the many American’s that has left their childhood faith?

The new “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” of religious affiliation by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that more than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or no religion at all.

The survey depicts a highly fluid and diverse national religious life. If shifts among Protestant denominations are included, then it appears that 44 percent of Americans have switched religious affiliations. The catholic faith tops the survey with the highest percentage of people leaving and the unaffiliated churches are trending are gaining more memebrs than any other faith.

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