72 Percent Of Americans Believe “The Nation’s Moral Compass Is Pointed In The Wrong Direction” by for End of the American Dream
A new survey has found that the vast majority of Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track morally, but meanwhile the nation continues to move away from organized religion at an unprecedented rate. Needless to say, America’s moral decline has been a focus of mine for a very long time. Our society has been steadily decaying for decades, and our culture is now radically different than it was when I was growing up. I would love to see our culture return to the way that it was 50 or 60 years ago, but I don’t think that is ever going to happen. Instead, the numbers seem to indicate that our culture is going to continue to deteriorate as older Americans die off and younger Americans gain more power in society.
According to a brand new Deseret News/Marist Poll survey that was just released, 72 percent of Americans believe that “the nation’s moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction”.
On the surface, that number would seem to be really good news.
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The survey also discovered that it isn’t just highly religious Americans that believe that we are in moral decline. 74 percent of Christians agreed that “the nation’s moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction”, and 69 percent of non-religious Americans also agreed with that statement.
I found that to be very noteworthy.
And this is how the numbers broke down by political affiliation…
-90 percent of Republicans agreed
-77 percent of Independents agreed
-51 percent of Democrats agreed
It is very rare for any survey to ever find this sort of widespread agreement on any issue.
Surprisingly, the survey also found that more than half of all Americans still believe in the God of the Bible…
For example, 54% of Americans report they believe in God as described in the Bible—this includes 86% of all those who practice a religion and one in three (33%) individuals who report they do not practice a religion.
But despite the numbers that I just shared with you, apparently most Americans do not believe that organized religion is the answer to our moral problems.
In fact, the survey found that the percentage of Americans that attend religious services “at least once or twice a month” has fallen by 12 percent just since 2011…
Only 40% of adults report attending a religious service at least once or twice a month. This is a noticeable decline from an April 2011 Marist Poll which revealed that 52% of Americans attended religious services at least once or twice a month.
So what will our society look like if these trends continue?
The survey also discovered that the oldest U.S. adults are more than twice as likely as the youngest U.S. adults to attend religious services regularly…
