54% of Americans Think the Church Has No Credibility
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Thu, June 28, 2007
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Confidence in the church dropped in the wake of the television evangelism scandals of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It then fell significantly in the wake of revelations surrounding the Catholic priest abuse scandal in 2002.
The Gallup poll found that Protestants are more likely to express confidence in the church compared to Catholics. Confidence in the church or organized religion has dropped from 53 percent in 2004 to 39 percent today among Catholics. Among Protestants, confidence increased from 60 percent in 2004 to 63 percent in 2006 and then dropped to 57 percent today.
More here in the Christian Post...
Americans' confidence in organized religion and other institutions is down across the board compared to last year, a recent Gallup poll found. Only 46 percent of Americans have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in church/organized religion which is one percentage point of being the lowest in Gallup's history since 1973.
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Peter Hamm on Thu, June 28, 2007
I’m surprised the numbers are that high actually. I guess I’m a “glass half full” kinda guy on this one.
Camey on Thu, June 28, 2007
What are we, the church, willing to do to change those numbers? They simply aren’t good enough.
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