(ETH) – In case you need more evidence that America is getting darker on a spiritual and moral level, a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, revealed a majority of Americans do not believe they need God to be moral or have good values.
Another interesting thing this poll revealed was that most people surveyed with politically conservative leanings still believe they need God to be morally good. According to the Christian Post, The nonpartisan polling firm recently published a survey that measures the connection between people’s beliefs about God and morality.
According to the survey, conducted between late June and early October 2019, 38,426 people in 34 countries were surveyed. The research highlighted the importance of God and prayer in the lives of the participants of the poll. According to the report, The data suggest multiple factors correlate with the belief that God is “necessary to be moral and have good values.”
Those factors include an individual’s level of wealth, education, and age. The surveyed revealed that while 70% of Americans still believe that religion is either “somewhat important” or “very important” in their lives, more than half (54%) of Americans said they believe God is “not necessary to be moral or have good values.” The Christian Post went on to reveal:
Meanwhile, 44% of American respondents said they believe God is necessary to “be moral and have good values.” Respondents on the ideological right were found to be significantly more likely to say it is necessary to believe in God to be a moral person and have good values compared to those on the political left in 15 of the 34 countries surveyed.
The largest gap between the ideological right and left exists in the United States. While only 24% of American respondents who identified themselves as leaning more to the left politically said it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values, 37% of centrists agreed. But when it comes to respondents who lean to the right politically, more than twice the percentage of those on the left (63%) agreed that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values.