A recent survey by The Wall Street Journal/NORC, about American values, found that after 25 years since the last survey, faith in God and country had plummeted. The survey found that 38 percent of Americans believed that patriotism is “very important” to them, down from 70 percent who said the same in 1998. As for faith, 39 percent of people reported that religion was very important to them, while a mere 25 years ago, 62 percent of people agreed tht religion was very important to them. That is a sad bit of news coming at Easter.
But, still over in my former home, Australia, due to mass immigration and general secularisation, the number of people reporting an affiliation with Christianity has declined, while those of other religions, and no religion, increased. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 43.9 percent of people reported being Christians in 2021, and falling.