The United States is a “spiritual, but not religious” country, and getting more so, despite the best efforts of younger traditionalists. At least, that’s what the data from the latest Pew Religious Landscape Study, released last week, appear to show.
The good news is that belief in God, or a God of some kind, is almost universal. Ninety-two per cent of Americans hold this conviction: even among the religiously unaffiliated, 70 per cent believe in God with some level of certainty. In addition, 74 per cent believe in an afterlife, 79 per cent believe in miracles, and 68 per cent believe in angels and demons.
