Fox News anchor Carlson.
A few days ago, Gallup Poll, a leading U.S. polling firm, released a new poll showing that 47 percent of Americans will be members of a formal religious group in 2020, falling below 50 percent for the first time in 80 years. As a result, the Fox News anchor said, Americans have been “enslaved.
The survey showed that in 1937, 73 percent of Americans were members of a religious group; in 2000, the percentage was essentially unchanged; in 2010, it began to drop to 61 percent; in 2018, it had dropped to 50 percent; and in 2020, it will drop to 47 percent.
According to the poll’s analysis, the main reasons for the decline in religious membership in the U.S. are: more adults have no religious preference; and the number of people with full membership in specific places of worship is declining each year.
The Gallup poll highlights that the U.S. remains a religious nation, with more than 7 in 10 people affiliated with some organized religion. Perhaps the decline in 2020 may be temporary due to the Communist virus pandemic. But in terms of trends, a continued decline over the next few decades seems inevitable.
“People aren’t liberated by fleeing from meaning, from God, from religion, they’re enslaved.” -Tucker Carlson https://t.co/RGkLSU9tvc
- Mary Rose Corkery (@corkery_mrose) April 2, 2021
In response to the decline in the percentage of religious people in the United States, Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson noted on his show last Friday (April 2) that all of the “liberal movements” in this country, which claim to free Americans from the shackles of traditional religion, will, at some point, become different from what they claim to be. But at some point, the situation becomes the opposite of what it purports to be. He questions, “Are people really freer than they were when they believed in God, are they less anxious?”
He points out that everyone dies, and if there is a lack of explanation for what happens after death, people become disillusioned with conventional science and become anxious, desperate and fearful, which in turn causes a spike in suicides, substance abuse and other behaviors. Thus, people are not free by escaping from the meaning of life, from God, or from religion, but by various so-called “freedom movements” that paradoxically keep them in bondage, in effect, enslaved.
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