![]() At 47%, the oldest respondents constituted the largest share of respondents who “strongly agreed” that Bible reading played an important role in a child’s character development. Overall, nearly half of respondents (49%) agreed either “strongly” or “somewhat” that “Bible reading is an important component of a child’s character development,” while an additional 27% disagreed either “strongly” or “somewhat” with that analysis. A slightly higher share of Generation Z (39%), the youngest group of American adults, told pollsters that an absence of the Bible would make the U.S. “worse off.” Thirty-one percent of millennials subscribed to that belief. Millennials were the least likely group to see an absence of the Bible as making the U.S. A majority of baby boomers (57%) and a plurality of those in generation X (46%) also predicted that the U.S. would be “worse off” without the Bible, with 64% of the oldest Americans agreeing with that statement. In 2022, the elderly were the group most likely to believe that the U.S. would be “better off” without the Bible remained flat at 14% in both 20. The share of Americans who think the U.S. ![]() would be “worse off” without the Bible.įorty-one percent of respondents contended that the country would be “about the same” without the Bible, an increase from the 33% who said so in 2021. This is a noticeable decrease from last year, when 54% of those surveyed believed that the U.S. When asked “how do you think our country would be without the Bible,” specifically referring to a hypothetical scenario where “nobody read the Bible at all,” a plurality of respondents (45%) indicated that they thought the U.S. The overwhelming majority (78%) of those surveyed indicated that their Bible reading “stayed the same” over the past year, as 13% reported an increase in Bible reading and the remaining 10% saw a decrease in their Bible reading. The survey also inquired about respondents’ Bible reading habits. At the same time, the estimated number of Bible disengaged Americans rose from 100 million last year to 145 million this year. ![]() The State of the Bible report also demonstrates what the American Bible Society describes as a “major decrease in Scripture Engagement,” which is defined as “consistent interaction with the Bible that shapes people’s choices and transforms their relationships with God, self, and others.” The estimated number of Scripture-engaged Americans dropped from 64 million in 2021 to 49 million in 2022. A plurality (40%) of those surveyed never read the Bible on their own, while 12% read it less than once a year and 8% look at it once or twice a year. More than half (60%) of Americans use the Bible less than three to four times a year. adults use the Bible daily, while 4% use it four to six times a week, 7% consult it two to three times a week, 5% read the Bible once a week, and 7% read it once a month. The group labeled Bible users consisted of Americans who read the Bible outside of church as infrequently as three to four times a year to those who use the Bible daily. dropped from 128 million in 2021 to 103 million in 2022. population as a whole, the figure suggests that the number of Bible users in the U.S. The State of the Bible report described the 11% decrease as an “unprecedented drop in the percentage of Bible users in the United States.” When applied to the U.S. accounted for just 39% of the adult population, the lowest in more than a decade. However, in 2022, Bible users in the U.S. Just last year, 50% of Americans were Bible users. adult population consistently remained between 48% and 51%. The American Bible Society defines Bible users as “those who use the Bible at least 3-4 times each year on their own, outside of a church setting.”Īfter reaching a high of 53% in 2014, the share of Bible users among the U.S. The 12th annual report asked Americans a variety of questions about their Bible use and their thoughts on its role in society.Ī preface to the report also highlights changes in the percentage of Bible users in the U.S. The 2022 State of the Bible report, released Wednesday, based its findings on responses collected from a survey of 2,598 U.S. There has been an “unprecedented drop” in the number of Bible users in the United States since last year, according to a report released by the American Bible Society.
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