A new study, led by Professor Jean M. Twenge author of Generation Me and published in Sage Open, has examined the responses of 58,893 participants in the General Social Survey, a survey of U.S. adults that took place between 1972 and 2014. The results of the new study are striking, concluding that five times more Americans prayed in the early 1980s than in 2014 while nearly twice as many Americans believed in God in the 1980s than they do now.
Americans today are also less likely to believe that the Bible is divinely inspired with 22% of respondents agreeing with the statement that the Bible "is an ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men" compared to the 14% who agreed with this in 1984 (a 57% increase).
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Americans today are also less likely to believe that the Bible is divinely inspired with 22% of respondents agreeing with the statement that the Bible "is an ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men" compared to the 14% who agreed with this in 1984 (a 57% increase).
http://news.meta.com/2016/03/21/the-fall-of-religion-in-america/