January 2, 2019

Religion Still ‘Important’ to Majority of Americans

72% of Americans say that religion is important to them and holds the answers to today’s problems.

Gallup recently released its annual poll on Americans’ view of the importance of religion in their lives. When Gallup first conducted this poll in 1952, it found that “75% said [religion] was very important and 20% fairly important.”

This past year, the numbers show that a significant majority of Americans still find religion important and, of those who attend church weekly, 81% believe that “religion can answer today’s problems.” Meanwhile, of those who attend church “less often” than weekly or monthly, only 27% believe that the keys to solving today’s problems can be found in religion. Instead, 58% of them see religion as old-fashioned and out of date.

Honestly, it should come as no surprise that those who hold little esteem for religion’s answers to today’s problems would also see little value in regular church attendance. Interestingly, Americans’ decreasing view of religion’s importance has fluctuated over the years, with 61% of Americans viewing religion as “very important” in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and increasing to 65% the following year.

People always put their trust in something they believe to be greater than themselves, be it government, science, business, academia, morality, or a myriad of other substitutes for the Divine. So when terrorists exposed the vulnerability and limits of the U.S. government’s ability to protect its citizens, many Americans were awakened to the reality that religion and more specifically Christianity offers the only real hope to finding true eternal security in this dangerous, broken, and corrupt world, by submitting to and resting in the arms of God through trusting in Jesus Christ. May many more Americans come know this certain hope in 2019.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.