“Americans’ average confidence in institutions has been trending downward since 1979…. Confidence finally showed significant improvement in 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic…. However, average confidence quickly reverted and sunk further to 27% in 2022.” - Gallup
“Because we Americans enjoyed a national beginning which we have come to regard as foundational, and not a mere temporal launching pad, we have the ability in times of trouble to think our way back to our origins, and take from them not only a well-deserved rebuke, but also a strong dose of inspiration and redirection.” - L&L
“19% say founders would be pleased, compared with 54% in 2001… In measures since 2013, fewer in all parties say founders would be pleased… 69% say the U.S. has succeeded at least a fair amount in achieving founding ideals” - Gallup
“…according to a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, 64% of Americans do not want to live in a primarily Christian nation. Instead, they prefer an America of many faiths without a Christian majority.” - RNS
“We know that the world we’re living in is falling apart. We know that the digital age we were born into isn’t working. And so we long. We’re nostalgic for eras that we truly know nothing about because we’re convinced that somewhere, left behind in the ’80s and ’90s, is the thing we’re missing.” - TGC
“While this is a science fiction scenario, and at least as far as the mainstream public goes, there is no indisputable evidence of aliens on Earth, this is an interesting question for Christians to raise. I find that Disclosure Day does offer a decent, but still lacking, Christian answer to this hypothetical, but… ” - Denison Forum
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“…in addition to sex between teenagers, majorities of 57% to 89% say seven behaviors are morally wrong: extramarital affairs, cloning humans, polygamy, suicide, cloning animals, pornography and changing one’s gender.” - Gallup
“Support for legal same-sex marriage down six points from 2022-2023 high…62% viewing gay/lesbian relations as moral is lowest since 2016…Perceived morality of changing one’s gender down eight points since 2021” - Gallup
“A record-high 56% of Americans rate moral values in the U.S. as ‘poor,’ up 12 percentage points from last year, and 80% say moral values are ‘getting worse,’ up 14 points.” - Gallup
“Post-modernism is built on earlier deconstructionism that—while not always denying that truth exists–did deny that it was attainable with any certainty. But with AI and social media, the level of doubt and denial has hit a new level.” - P&D
