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America's belief in God hits new low

Erin Doherty
Axios
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:01 UTC

The number of Americans who believe in God has dropped to the lowest level in the 78 years Gallup has asked the question, per a poll out Friday.

Driving the news: 81% of U.S. adults say they believe in God — down 6 points from 2017.

Belief in God dropped the most among young adults, liberals and Democrats, with these groups showing a drop of 10 or more percentage points compared to an average of polls from 2013 to 2017, Gallup found.

More than 90% of Americans believed in God between 1944 and 2011.

Conservatives and married adults experienced little change in beliefs, and other subgroups, including education level and ages, experienced but a modest decline.

By the numbers: 62% of liberals, 68% of young adults and 72% of Democrats say they believe in God. These groups experienced the largest declines in beliefs, Gallup notes.

Belief in God is highest among political conservatives, with 94% saying they believe in God, and Republicans, with 92% saying so.

Between the lines: While the percentage of Americans who believe in God is down over the last five years — and down even more when compared to the last several decades — a majority of Americans still believe in God, Gallup found.

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JTF Truth · 2022-06-18T14:03:39Z

The school of communism is working well.

Dwoods44 · 2022-06-18T15:44:25Z

It is a narrative. It is a poll, and polls are intended to manipulate public views. The focus is not that the majority believe in God, it is that the belief in God has gone down by its highest number.

Why has belief gone down at all? This is the generational indoctrination in our schools. They teach groupthink, scienctism is God, social activism for indoctrinated emergencies, like global warming. Kids are being taught not to believe.

However, you cannot eliminate belief in God. Many young people are waking up to the indoctrination and finding their connection to God. The plandemic, global warming, and great green reset is turning people from the sick entertainment of Netflix and the propaganda of the Mockingbird media to a renewed belief. This is happening now.

sbc · 2022-06-18T20:45:29Z

Dwoods44 The results of a recent poll found that a majority of those polled felt only dumbasses believe poll results.

Not really. Just joking. Still trying to make a point though.

Dwoods44 ·

sbc

· 2022-06-19T11:38:24Z

Winternights3 · 2022-06-18T15:54:47Z

Well ZZ Top foretold of such a happening when they sang about Jesus leaving Chicago, they should have said planet.

Arcane Schema · 2022-06-18T16:01:13Z

Christians don't love god, they love government. Remember a god is whom you ultimately serve. They all serve government. They just use christianity as a cloaking mechanism with which to hide their true diabolical intentions.

"You are not Christians. You are not Jews. You are not Muslims and you certainly are not atheist. You all have the same god and it's name is 'government' You're all members of the most evil, insane, destructive cult in history. If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul." ~ Larken Rose

It just goes to show, you can't separate church and state if the state is your church.

Maxx Paine · 2022-06-18T22:46:55Z

Arcane Schema Excellent point (and quote.) Thank you.

When Nietzsche said, "God is dead." I always thought that meant the state had replaced the heavenly god.

Arcane Schema · 2022-06-19T01:58:17Z

Maxx Paine "When Nietzsche said, "God is dead." I always thought that meant the state had replaced the heavenly god."

Hi Maxx, gonna go a little on the esoteric side here. Have you ever heard of the 'Apotheosis Of Washington' ?

'Apotheosis' literally means to replace god with a person. If one ever visits the US Capital, right under the dome is the 'Apotheosis Of Washington'. An obvious reference to make George Washington, via the government 'God'. [Link]
It is obvious that the US government decided a long time ago, that it would replace god with itself.

This also is what causes people to look for a savior in government by a process called voting, (albeit they are doing so subliminally as it is shrewdly imposed upon them without them even knowing it). In voting you get to choose who your next god is going to be. It is the case that people have been brainwashed into believing in a false messiah called 'government', that they have forgone their god given ability to exist as self-governing, self-directing, self-deciding free moral agents and volunteerists.

Isaac · 2022-06-18T16:22:42Z

Gallup - funded by the state for the state...

God says you don't need a king, just follow me. We are the idiots that cannot follow simple instructions. I am the idiot that cannot follow this instruction.

Believe what you believe. If you believe this poll then you know where you stand. Become a Soldier for God. Love Jesus, Love one another even those non God fearing ones.

Winternights3 · 2022-06-18T16:24:49Z

Morality, Rights and Law, something that should have underpinned humanity, alas no longer.

The Church is beyond corrupt and governments are breaching anarchy.

Isaac · 2022-06-18T16:30:12Z

Winternights3 The church is not an establishment. It is not a place. It cannot be created by man. Man can and will corrupt the idea. I will corrupt the idea from time to time. The word is the guiding light. The word alone. In your interpretation not another man's. Read it for yourself and accept that this isn't an accident.

Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Answer is God. Nothing is a coincidence.

Winternights3 · 2022-06-18T16:37:50Z

Isaac " The church is not an establishment " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you live in cloud cuckoo land.

The " Church " personifies all and everything Evil and was established so as to torture humanity with its most holy than thou teachings.

Isaac · 2022-06-18T19:47:38Z

Winternights3 No argument there....

[Link]

Maxx Paine · 2022-06-18T22:56:21Z

Winternights3

"...governments are breaching anarchy."

What does that mean? Anarchy is the antithesis of government.

Winternights3 · 2022-06-18T23:08:53Z

Maxx Paine Thank you for your comment, it has now drawn my attention to an deliberate alteration, one not of my making.

" breaching " , should have been preaching.

I have a annoying spybot operating and it likes to alter things and in doing so, makes communication difficult.

Yes I have firewalls etc and programs installed to protect, but posting on Sott as I do is proving to be problematic.

Maxx Paine · 2022-06-18T23:16:47Z

Winternights3 I know how that works. I've had 2 personal websites shut down for 'preaching' anarchy. (Godaddy)

Hell, those boys at the fusion center love me. I give them something to do.

Arcane Schema · 2022-06-19T02:03:34Z

Maxx Paine He doesn't know what 'anarchy' means.

Winternights3 · 2022-06-19T02:10:34Z

Arcane Schema You talking about moi ?

Maxx Paine · 2022-06-19T02:39:11Z

Isaac

Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

The chicken. It was an idea. Then it realized it needed to propagate itself. Thus the egg.

DeliciousTears · 2022-06-18T18:15:45Z

God's interest in America is at an all time high....

Winternights3 · 2022-06-18T18:43:30Z

DeliciousTears " America " has become a beacon, one that shines a dark light, as for "God", this creation is the work of demonic minds.

boli · 2022-06-18T18:23:38Z

It's not a loss in belief in God, it's a loss of confidence that most of the assholes at the front of the church have anything to do with God and instead have everything to do with Caesar.

Footnote: interesting that the "C" in Caesar would have been pronounced as a hard "K" in his own time.

ReRan · 2022-06-18T20:40:21Z

Interesting that they put a "Christian" church picture on this article. Believing in God, and believing in organized religion are two entirely different things.

sbc ·

ReRan

· 2022-06-18T20:47:55Z

Maxx Paine · 2022-06-18T23:01:08Z

ReRan "Philosophy is questions that can't be answered. Religion is answers that can't be questioned."

Winternights3 · 2022-06-18T23:15:06Z

Maxx Paine " Philosophy is questions that can't be answered " , hmm that's a new one .

Arcane Schema ·

ReRan Which god?

· 2022-06-19T02:04:36Z

oldschoolrider · 2022-06-18T21:24:39Z

i read the title, fuck the story,, stupid is as stupid does,,waste of time.. really, fkn retarded as fk, story..

DownunderET · 2022-06-19T00:10:49Z

So some yanks are now questioning the one thing that "drives" the movement ie the Bible. All of the evangelical churches of which there are plenty preach the Bible because that is "everything" to them. They don't want to know anything about the Pope, Rome, and most of all the Vatican, the Bible is "IT".

So if they have stop believing, then the Bible is at the centre of the numbers decreasing.

And so it should be, the Bible is nothing more than made up stories, or copies of ideas and happenings. For example the loaves and fishes, walking on water, healing the blind, these are all made up

The bible wants us to believe the unbelievable, and modern society has woken up that they have been hoodwinked, Thomas Aquinas found out close to his death that indeed he had been lied to, and his last words were.

"All that i have written is as straw"............there endeth the lesson.

Winternights3 · 2022-06-19T00:29:36Z

DownunderET History will judge this Book, it will I believe not survive this journey because time and knowing was and always will be against it.

parzival · 2022-06-19T08:22:15Z

Happy Father's Day... [Link]

ReRan ·

Love that!parzival

· 2022-06-19T12:09:40Z

Saiko · 2022-06-19T09:59:54Z

The God in the Bible is so obviously not a true god (the old testament's god is clearly a psychopathic and evil entity), the whole religions are so full of opposites and falsehoods, the people loudly professing faith in God (I mean politicians, actors, businessmen, clergy and other more or less public personas) are lying hypocrites, and bad at hiding it, I find it strange that there are still people believing in God or gods. It is enough to be just have some critical mind, or at least moments, and question the flashy "believers".

This has nothing to do with the indoctrination, or at least it's not a crux of it.

parzival · 2022-06-19T10:40:29Z

Here is the Ritual of the powers that should never be, the so-called 'elites' and an explanation by Dayz of Noah and his guest Theo describing events as the Queen of England follows a ritual to her god... [Link]

hirundine · 2022-06-19T10:42:42Z

God is generally not found in books or pamphlets, God is generally not found in Churches, Temples or Mosques; God is found in people's hearts. You have to listen to your heart and dwell upon its strength.

That U2 singer, sang, "Just haven't found what I'm looking for".... well, he was looking in wrong place.

All these people and others telling us where God is, what God does or does not do... they're full of it. As we lie on death's doorstep. It will come clearer. For us all. ... the one thing we may be sure of in life...

oldschoolrider · 2022-06-19T11:04:39Z

hirundine WELL SAID,

EVERY SINGLE HUMAN WHEN ALONE, THEN SPEAKS ALOUD TO ANOTHER, THEY ARE AWARE OF, THEY ALWAYS RECIEVE AN ANSWER, THAT IS THE LOVED ONES AROUND, OR GOD HIMSELF WITHIN..

NEVER LOSE COURSE.. LOVE IS THE GOAL, LOVE IS THE OUTCOME, WE ARE HERE IN THIS EARTH SCHOOL TO LEARN, TO PROGRESS, AND LOVE EACH OTHER, SO SAD MANY FAILED THIS LIFETIME BY VANITY EGO AND THE CHASE FOR MATERIALISM AN RICHES..

THE DARKNESS AWAITS THAT KIND..

IE, NAZI SHWABBY, NAZI GATES, NAZI MAGGOT FAUCI, EVERY USA PRESIDENT, UK, AND THE REST, ALL LOVERS OF THE SELF, THE DARKNESS AWAITS, AND THE SUFFERING YOU EACH CAUSED, AWAITS YOU, ALSO TO EXPERIENCE..

THIS YOU BROUGHT UPON YOURSELVES, AN ONLY BY EXPERIENCEING SUCH, CAN YOU ESCAPE SUCH, BUY GOING THROUGH THAT YOU CAUSED, AN ALL FOR THE BUCK.. IT SO SO VERY SUCKS TO BE YOU, PLUS THE WESTERN MEDIA MAGGOT FEAR MONGERING SPREADERS OF BULLSHIT, THAT FEAR YOU CAUSED, THAT FEAR YOU ALSO SHALL EXPERIENCE.. IT ALSO VERY SUCKS TO BE YOU LOT ALSO, AGAIN, PROOF, CONTACT ME, IL SHOW YOU THE LIGHT,

IF PROOF YOU WANT OF THIS I SAY, CONTACT ME, I SHALL GLADLY PROVIDE..

parzival · 2022-06-19T12:48:54Z

oldschoolrider Hey you left your caps lock on! My God is the God of Love. You can't have love without forgiveness and that includes all the ego infested personalities you mentioned and more. It's not for us to judge. That's the purview of the Holy Spirit. The classroom teaches one to choose between the ego & The Holy Spirit. In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice; always between two choices or two voices.

You and your brother are the same as God Himself is One, and not divided in His Will. And you must have one purpose, since He gave the same to both of you. His Will is brought together as you join in will, that you be made complete by offering completion to your brother. See not in him the sinfulness he sees, but give him honor that you may esteem yourself and him. To you and your brother is given the power of salvation, that escape from darkness into light be yours to share; that you may see as one what never has been separate, nor apart from all God's Love as given equally.

The alertness of the ego to the errors of other egos is not the kind of vigilance the Holy Spirit would have you maintain. If you point out the errors of your brother's ego you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors. This must be true, since there is no communication between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego makes no sense, and the Holy Spirit does not attempt to understand anything that arises from it. Since He does not understand it, He does not judge it, knowing that nothing the ego makes means anything.

When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him. If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. This cannot be correction. Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. It is the giving up of correction in yourself.

When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity in him. If you perceive his errors and accept them, you are accepting yours. If you want to give yours over to the Holy Spirit, you must do this with his. Unless this becomes the one way in which you handle all errors, you cannot understand how all errors are undone. How is this different from telling you that what you teach you learn? Your brother is as right as you are, and if you think he is wrong you are condemning yourself. Ego is always wrong, no matter what it says or does.

You cannot correct yourself. Is it possible, then, for you to correct another? Yet you can see him truly, because it is possible for you to see yourself truly. It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely to accept him as he is. His errors do not come from the truth that is in him, and only this truth is yours. His errors cannot change this, and can have no effect at all on the truth in you. To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you. You will not escape paying the price for this, not because you are being punished for it, but because you are following the wrong guide and will therefore lose your way.

Your brother's errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth beside you for you walk together. The Holy Spirit in you forgives all things in you and in your brother. His errors are forgiven with yours. Atonement is no more separate than love. Atonement cannot be separate because it comes from love. Any attempt you make to correct a brother means that you believe correction by you is possible, and this can only be the arrogance of the ego. Correction is of God, Who does not know of arrogance.

The Holy Spirit forgives everything because God created everything. Do not undertake His function, or you will forget yours. Accept only the function of healing in time, because that is what time is for. God gave you the function to create in eternity. You do not need to learn that, but you do need to learn to want it. For that all learning was made. This is the Holy Spirit's use of an ability that you do not need, but that you made. Give it to Him! You do not understand how to use it. He will teach you how to see yourself without condemnation, by learning how to look on everything without it. Condemnation will then not be real to you, and all your errors will be forgiven.

However much you wish your brother be condemned, God is in him. And never will you know He is in you as well while you attack His chosen home, and battle with His host. Regard him gently. Look with loving eyes on him who carries Christ within him, that you may behold his glory and rejoice that Heaven is not separate from you. That's what Jesus did while he was here. He saw the face of Christ in ALL his brothers and remembered God.

You and your brother are coming home together, after a long and meaningless journey that you undertook apart, and that led nowhere. You have found your brother, and you will light each other's way. And from this light will the Great Rays extend back into darkness and forward unto God, to shine away the past and so make room for His eternal Presence, in which everything is radiant in the light. Happy Father's Day!

oldschoolrider · 2022-06-19T20:21:45Z

parzival caps on to be noticed..

well, since you put it this way, many valid points.. maybe its wiser to say:

"Father forgive them for they dont know that what they do",

--but in reality, they very well knew that of which they were doing, and still continue to do!!

thank you sire.. Godblless..

parzival · 2022-06-20T03:44:46Z

oldschoolrider 🙏 God Bless you too! It's still a judgment thinking that 'they know what they do.' Jesus stated that because he knew that identifying with the ego is identifying with what is unreal, nothingness...A mind so split does not know itself, it is a cry for help.

If pardon were unjustified, you would be asked to sacrifice your rights when you return forgiveness for attack. But you are merely asked to see forgiveness as the natural reaction to distress that rests on error, and thus calls for help. Forgiveness is the only sane response. It keeps your rights from being sacrificed.

Forgiveness recognized as merited will heal. It gives the miracle its strength to overlook illusions. This is how you learn that you must be forgiven too. There can be no appearance that can not be overlooked. For if there were, it would be necessary first there be some sin that stands beyond forgiveness. There would be an error that is more than a mistake; a special form of error that remains unchangeable, eternal, and beyond correction or escape. There would be one mistake that had the power to undo creation, and to make a world that could replace it and destroy the Will of God. Only if this were possible could there be some appearances that could withstand the miracle, and not be healed by it.

Look on your brother with the willingness to see him as he is. And do not keep a part of him outside your willingness that he be healed. To heal is to make whole. And what is whole can have no missing parts that have been kept outside. Forgiveness rests on recognizing this, and being glad there cannot be some forms of sickness which the miracle must lack the power to heal.

God's Son is perfect, or he cannot be God's Son. Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. There is no way to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself.

I thank You, Father, for Your perfect Son, and in his glory will I see my own.

Here is the joyful statement that there are no forms of evil that can overcome the Will of God; the glad acknowledgment that guilt has not succeeded by your wish to make illusions real. And what is this except a simple statement of the truth?

oldschoolrider · 2022-06-20T10:36:47Z

parzival thank you, for i dont wish for my illusions to be real, for they are not illusions,, they are seen by many, if not most, i voice the evil present, visible undertakings i see unfold, and acted out by others just before me,

hence todays quote of the day my friend..

"Quote of the Day",

The world is a dangerous place.

Not because of people who are evil,

but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

- Albert Einstein

that what the people can do about is educate, make others aware, dont preach, dont force it down anothers throat, dont believe the bubble one is in to be a perfect safe zone bubble,

it is by far the opposite,

this evil yes, they cannot overcome the will of God, they pretend to be a God, of which, they dominate, overpower the weak, control the feeble minded, " this i say is happening", of which the total opposite is fact, deception has nearly swallowed 95% of the world, and the darkness grows, the next 25 years are now in question of a healthy growing human population, the HUMAN GENOME, THE DNA HAS NOW BEEN FOREVER ALTERED, THERES NO GOING BACK, TO THAT CREATION, OUR FATHER CREATED, ITS UNATURAL TO ITS CORE, AND NOW, THEY ARE GOING AFTER NEW BORNS, AND INFANTS, AND CHILDREN.

but I, remain pureblood, never been vaxxed, never ever worn a mask the last 2 yrs, and this planetary killer plague, really, an unnatural killer plague, created by the evil, the king of kings, opposite to everything God himself knows,

I suffer heart, lung an liver disease, yes, highly in danger as a target for this "killer man made plague of deception" so, your choice of word being "illusion", maybe, this is sender, to sender!!

to what guilt of my wish did not succeed? I wish for planetary peace, not, "illusion" or bad things to see and read, that are well an truly visible to all, and most,

remember, words have in the past, and still today start wars of attrition, those in power convert, then convict those they gained to side to begin a violent approach, isnt this that what is post birth on a planetary scale at the moment?

the vaxxed vs the unvaxxed,

Ukraine bombing Ukraine, killing its own people over a language difference, and a turf war, 8 YRS ONGOING NOW,

politicians sending humans to fight, an kill each other, and in the name of what to be exact, mere words?

at the end of the day, the leaders are held accountable, they must all experience that they caused another to suffer, by experiencing themselves, yes, not in this life, but definitely the next, i also know of the spirit realms, the many mansions our Father has prepped for us all,

what you do here, earth school, then you either die by organic downfall, die by the hand of another, or by the hand of oneself, ie diet, habits, addictions, you get my point,

when you awaken in the mansion state, what you are, your surrounded by, "like attract like",

if its not you, it becomes your hell, after experience, and forgiving oneself, you can, if willing go upward.

but remember, one must pay the debt, the breaking of the golden basic rules, we all know that, of which they are.

kind regards my friend,

peace..

Dwoods44 · 2022-06-20T13:28:17Z

parzival Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

parzival · 2022-06-20T13:35:24Z

Dwoods44 I would also add, Father forgive them for they know not who they are!