More and more Americans are shifting away from religion as a new poll showed that those who don't believe in God have increased while another survey showed that more Americans believe the United States has low moral values.
The number of U.S. residents that do not believe in God, which was revealed in a new Gallup poll published on Friday, shows the lowest number in the last eight decades. The Values and Belief poll was conducted from May 2 to May 22 and showed that 81% of Americans say they believe in God.
Belief in God
The results show a 6% decrease from the 87% of respondents who previously said in the 2017 poll that they believe in a God. This year also marked the lowest percentage in Gallup's trend since the public opinion company first asked the question in 1944.
The poll that was conducted this year found that 17% of Americans said that they do not believe in God. When the company first asked the question in 1944 and in 1947, twice each in the 1950s and 1960s, they found a consistent 98% of respondents saying they believed in God, as per Fox News.
Another poll also showed that a record-breaking 50% of Americans say that the United States has poor moral values while only 1% rated the nation's values as being excellent. The Gallup poll summary says that Americans' view of the state of moral values in the U.S. are dismal and noted that people's expectations for the future were grim.
When asked about the overall state of moral values in the U.S. today, half of the poll's respondents indicated that the country has "poor" values, which is an all-time high since the company began asking the question two decades ago. The survey also found that 12% rated the country's moral values as being "good."
According to USA Today, the polling company found that a belief in God has fallen the most sharply among young adults and people who identify as liberals or Democrats. The groups saw a drop of 10 or more percentage points when the 2022 figures were compared with an average of the survey's results from 2013 to 2017.
Moral Values
The survey also discovered that roughly 42% of Americans, who still believe in God, said that he could hear prayers and "intervene on a person's behalf." Married adults and people who identified themselves as conservatives showed little change in their beliefs in recent years.
Roughly 18% of Americans cite consideration of others as the most important problem with the state of moral values in the country. The survey added that racism, lack of faith or religion, lack of morals, sense of entitlement, and lack of family structure, were mentioned by 5% to8% of U.S. adults, People's Daily Online reported
A study released last year from the Pew Research Center showed that about three in 10 American adults identify as religiously unaffiliated. This meant that the drop in those who believed in God was not entirely unexpected.
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