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Assignment 2

Week 5
Essay question

Introduction: The U.S religion after 50 years will be different from what it is now. It was
also different before 50 years. It is obvious that many aspects of the religion will change
especially when it comes to diversity. The changes will also affect both public and private life
of the people.
The changes in US religion will lead to declination in Christianity. According to statistics
Americans who were identified as Christians fell from 78.4% to 70.6%. This will continue
and the percentage will continue to fall. Now around one in three Americans do not follow
any formal religious group. This number will be increased and people after 50 years may not
follow any religion. People will have no belief in religion but will follow spirituality.
According to statistics only around 50% of the people believe in religion. This number will
drastically decrease in the next 50 years. Even people visiting church will be stopped. Around
73% of the people in 1937 were church members which drastically dropped to 60 % now.
This percentage may drop to 20-30 % in the next 50 years. It is also predicted that interfaith
engagement may also lead to people believing no religion.
In the recent years it is found that non Christians religions like Hinduism and Islam
religions has risen. People are more believing in these religions. This is a result if
immigration which has led to many people from India and other countries move to US. It is
predicted that the Muslim religion will be the second largest in US after Christianity and will
surpass Jews. Members of other religion are also expected to grow in the coming years. Even
many agencies have been formed for Islamic, Hinduism and Sikh religions. Non believers
of religion have been a part of America from long time but the number has increased a lot
today. There are many reasons that will be a reason for being atheist in next 50 years. Work
life of people is the major problem. Balancing work life and personal life was never so
challenging. Due to poverty and financial problems men and women will work in different
places and thus have no time to follow any religion. This will also lead to their children not
following any particular religion and very less do they will know about it. This will result in
graying of America. This means that America will have population of old aged people. Even
education also plays a major role in this. Education today is different from what it was
decades before. Religious views and thoughts are not a part of it and will continue the same
in next 50 years where there will be no trace of religion in education ("Religion will
dramatically shrink within 20 years", 2016).

Conclusion: Religious views are important to bind people together which will help us to
believe in god. Apart from work life people should also spend time in religion as it will help
them to gain inner piece. Christians are the majority people in America who are following
religion. Jews religion is also going down and thus efforts have to be put by all to save the
religious thoughts of all the religion in America.

References
Religion will dramatically shrink within 20 years. (2016). Hubpages.com. Retrieved 10
August 2016, from http://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/forum/76748/religion-willdramatically-shrink-within-20-years

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