The researchers questioned more than thirty-five thousand adults. It found that Christianity is the largest religion in the United States. About seventy-eight percent of adults are Christians. Among those, about fifty-one percent are Protestants. Catholics are about twenty-four percent of the adult population.
About sixteen percent of Americans say they have no religion. This group has been growing faster than any of the religious groups in America over the past twenty years.
The study found that Jews are less than two percent of the adult population of the United States. Buddhists are less than one percent. Muslims are also less than one percent of the population. However, the total number of Muslims in the population differs according to different groups. The Pew Research Center says there are two and one-half million Muslims in the United States. Other estimates are between five and seven million Muslims.
The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised. They now follow another religion or no religion at all.
What may be more important to most Americans than religion among their fellow citizens is a government free of it. The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.
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