New research shows Christians in the United States could become a minority group in less than 50 years. Data unveiled by the Pew Research Centre concluded that in 2070, 46 per cent of Americans may identify as Christian if trends continue.
While the scenarios painted by the research shows Christians will lose their majority, they'll still be the largest US religious group, the Guardian reports. Research from the Washington DC think tank modelled four hypothetical scenarios based on trends including no switching, steady switching, rising disaffiliation with limits and rising disaffiliation without limits.
In a bid to forecast the state of US religion over the coming decades, the group devised a number of questions: "What if Christians keep leaving religion at the same rate observed in recent years? What if the pace of religious switching continues to accelerate? What if switching were to stop, but other demographic trends – such as migration, births and deaths – were to continue at current rates?”
