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Survey Shows a More Secular America, but Experts Say Dig Deeper

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By    |   Monday, 19 July 2021 07:51 AM EDT

Religious experts say the devil is in the details when it comes to a new survey from the Public Policy Research Institute, which appears to show an increasingly secular nation as Americans turn away from religion.

The poll indicated a particularly alarming decline among white evangelicals — from 23% of the U.S. in 2006 to 14.5% in 2020 — and white Catholics — from 16% to 11.7%. At the same time, the percentage of respondents who say they’re not affiliated with a religion rose from 16% to 23.3%

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Religious experts say the devil is in the details when it comes to a new survey from the Public Policy Research Institute, which appears to show an increasingly secular nation as Americans turn away from...
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