Poll results

Oh Lordy: Americans Are Less Religious Now Than Ever Before

With Easter and Passover just around the corner, a new survey conducted by consulting company Gallup reveals that church memberships are at an all-time low in the US.

The poll, released on Thursday, shows that only 50 percent of the respondents declared belonging to church, synagogue or mosque in 2018. But this shouldn't be too much of a surprise since memberships have been steadily declining since 1998 — when 70 percent responded they did attend one of the three religious institutions.

This is also in line with the declining number of Americans who subscribe to religious beliefs — between 1998 and 2000, 90 percent of respondents stated that they had a religious affiliation. However, that number slipped to 77 percent between 2016 and 2018.