Religion in the US has declined over the past few years. The belief in religion has dropped 10% in the past ten years according to Alan Cooperman, Director of Religious Research of the Pew Research Center.

There are three main problems with today's generation that is causing the decline in religion. The first problem has to do with parents not believing. For example, when Christian parents don't believe, then the children do not grow up in a Church of some sort. Parents have a huge impact on their children, and if they don't show their kids the love of Jesus at a young age they may never feel His love. Even if these adults grew up in a Christian home something might have happened in their life to make them mad at God, so they decide they won't teach their children the love of Jesus Christ.

Those people who are unaffiliated with religion are seeming to take over the population of the US. The percentage of Catholics and Protestants has decreased to three to five percent since 2007. There are more unaffiliated Americans today than there are Catholics and Protestants. This decline comes from what is called "religious switching". Religious switching is when someone changes what their faith is. Catholicism is the religion that is the most susceptible to this "religious switching". Thirteen percent of Catholics were raised Catholic, but once they got the chance they changed their religion; this here is compared to the two percent of people that convert to Catholicism. “That means that there are more than six former Catholics for every convert to Catholicism,” Smith said. “There’s no other group in the survey that has that ratio of loss due to religious switching.”

Pew estimates that since 2007, the mainline Protestant religion has lost close to 5 million people. There are about 10% of Americans that say they were raised in a mainline Protestant church. Six percent of Americans say they converted to the mainline Protestant church. People in these churches are the future of religion and sharing God's word with other people who need to hear His word.

“There’s a continuing religious disaffiliation among older cohorts. That is really striking,” said Greg Smith, associate director of religion research for the Pew Research Center. “I continue to be struck by the pace at which the unaffiliated are growing.” White American are more likely to say they don't have any religion compared to Hispanic or Black Americans.

In my opinion, Americans today just need to get off their high horse and admit that they still believe in God. Most people today say they don't because they think it is the "cool" thing to do.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/...