Why every Christian (including me) will stay in the faith in 2026
Why every Christian (including me) will stay in the faith in 2026
By Robin Schumacher, Exclusive Columnist
Shalom aleikhem,
In a recent article entitled Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?, Pew Research found that the vast majority of U.S. adults (86%) were raised in a religion. The Pew data "shows that the nature of their religious experiences as children – that is, whether they were mostly positive or negative – plays a significant role in whether they stay in their childhood religion as adults."
Pew found that 84% of Americans who were raised in a religion and had a mostly positive childhood experience with religion still identify with that religion as adults: "Just 10% of people who grew up in a religion and had a positive childhood experience with it are 'nones' today, while 6% identify with a different religion than the one they were raised in."
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Such findings play well into the hands of religious skeptics who have long argued that the primary reason most people adhere to a religion is because of their upbringing. They say, for example, that the only cause behind the vast majority of U.S. Christians identifying as such is that America is mostly a Christian nation, spiritually speaking.
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