New York Times: Christianity’s Decline in U.S. Appears To Have Halted, Major Study Shows

I’m bullish on the future.

I don’t think 2050 will be anything like activists expected.

“For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing. The Christian population was shrinking, on its way to becoming a minority religion. America may have been some years behind Europe in the process, but its pews were emptying steadily and inexorably.

Now, that narrative may be changing.

After years of decline, the Christian population in the United States has been stable for several years, a shift fueled in part by young adults, according to a major new survey from the Pew Research Center. And the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, which had grown steadily for years, has also leveled off.

“We’re entering a new era of the American religious landscape,” said Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University who was not involved in the Pew survey. The “nones” — those in the American population who tell researchers they have no religious affiliation — have been growing for decades. “Now that growth has either slowed or stopped completely,” Dr. Burge said, “and that’s big deal.”…”

Looking ahead, I think the country is on the cusp of another major religious revival. I think White identity is strengthening and gender roles are sharpening. Immigration is subsiding. The transgender fad is retreating. I think the birth rate will go up. I think politics will depolarize.

Note: The well-being will reverse and start climbing to a new high.