A recently released study from the Pew Research Center suggests that, in the United States, Christianity will likely lose its status as the religious affiliation of the majority in the latter half of this century.

Since the 1990’s, the study notes that “large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular.’” In other words, the primary driver of this phenomenon is not the growth of other faiths in this country, but the falling away of those who themselves – or their parents – were Christians.

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