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The rise of the religious \u201cnones\u201d is continuing, according to new data, with the percentage of Americans who consider religion \u201cvery important\u201d to their lives now dipping below 50%.<\/p>\n
Newly published\u00a0data from Gallup\u00a0found that, in 2025, the share of U.S. adults who identified as \u201cnones\u201d \u2014 those with no religious affiliation at all \u2014\u00a0reached a record high of 24%, up from 21% and 22% the previous four years. Additionally, 28% said religion is \u201cnot very important\u201d in their lives.<\/p>\n
The just-released study showed less than half (47%) of American adults say religion is \u201cvery important\u201d to their lives, while another 25% described it as \u201cfairly important\u201d to them.<\/p>\n
LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE to CBN\u2019s Morning Podcast, Quick Start:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Over the years, Americans have steadily viewed religion as less valuable to their lives. In the 1950s and 60s, it was \u201cvery important\u201d for 70% to 75% of U.S. adults, then, in 2012, it dropped to 58%.<\/p>\n Only six demographic groups remain highly religious today, with more than 50% saying religion is \u201cvery important\u201d to them. Those groups are Latter-day Saints, Republicans, Protestant or nondenominational Christians, black adults, those ages 65 and older, and Southerners.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile religion remains deeply important to major segments of the population \u2026 the long-term trajectory shows a steady decline driven largely by generational replacement,\u201d said Megan Brenan, a senior editor at Gallup. \u201cYounger adults are both less likely to identify with a religion and less likely to attend services, reshaping the nation\u2019s religious landscape as they constitute a growing share of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n The shift comes as a greater number of Americans are abandoning organized religion for syncretism, an amalgamation of different religious ideas and philosophies.<\/p>\n Jude 4 could be seen as a warning against such trends: the blending of counter-biblical ideas while suggesting compatibility with Christianity.<\/p>\n The passage reads, \u201cI say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God\u2019s marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ\u201d (NLT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The rise of the religious \u201cnones\u201d is continuing, according to new data, with the percentage of Americans who consider religion \u201cvery important\u201d to their lives now dipping below 50%. Newly published\u00a0data from Gallup\u00a0found that, in 2025, the share of U.S. adults who identified as \u201cnones\u201d \u2014 those with no religious affiliation at all \u2014\u00a0reached a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[972,3778,483,348,2298,3020,489,7419],"class_list":["post-22358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-americans","tag-data","tag-decline","tag-faith","tag-importance","tag-lives","tag-reveals","tag-staggering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}