Well this is not good.
People who claim Christianity as their religion in America is in serious decline while those who claim no religion appears to be skyrocketing:
NY POST – Data released by the General Social Survey — an ongoing study which has monitored US trends, attitudes and behaviors since 1972 — reveals that the number of Americans who identify as non-religious (aka “nones”) is now about equal to the number of Catholics (23 percent) and evangelicals (22.5 percent) in this country.
While all three groups currently make up the largest share of ideological affiliations in the US, Catholicism and evangelicalism, along with mainline Protestantism, are also facing steady declines in followers.
“The rise of the nones has been consistent for two decades and shows no signs of slowing down,” tweets Ryan P. Burge, professor at Eastern Illinois University, who analyzed the data.
Since about 2005, those who check “none” under the religious affiliation category have seen a major growth in numbers —jumping from nearly 15 percent of the population to now roughly 23 percent.
Below is the chart the NY Post references.
Notice how “no religion” has been skyrocketing since the early to mid 1990s. Meanwhile over the past few decades Christianity has been losing ground in all categories: Evangelical, Catholic, and Mainline protestantism.
The 2018 GSS was just released and there's some big news. Those of "no religion" (23.1%) are statistically the same size as evangelicals (22.8%). There was also a small resurgence of mainline Protestants, while Catholics are down 3% in the last four years. pic.twitter.com/uiyDSe7M6f
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) March 20, 2019
This most recent survey for 2018 is also alarming. Those who claim “no religion” are now atop both Evangelicals and Catholics. Pretty soon they are going to eclipse Christianity completely.
This verse from 2 Thessalonians 2 comes to mind:
Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition…
While this may not be specifically what it’s referring to (i.e. Antichrist rebellion), I think in the most general sense this passage still encompasses what we see happening here in America — and really all around the world.