Steve Watson – modernity.news Jan 16, 2026
Fresh data shows that 43 percent of U.S. adults have grown more spiritual over their lives, compared to just 11 percent who say they’ve become less so. This shift highlights a broader rejection of the moral vacuum left by ‘progressive’ policies, with Americans of all ages leaning into deeper faith as society grapples with division and decay.
Large majorities cling to core beliefs: 86 percent affirm the existence of a soul, 83 percent believe in God or a universal spirit, 79 percent sense something spiritual beyond the natural world, and 70 percent expect an afterlife.
These numbers, drawn from a Pew Research Center survey, underscore a resilient spiritual foundation that defies the left’s attempts to dismantle traditional values.
You will find more infographics at Statista
“The long-term decline in Christian affiliation in the United States appears to be leveling off, at least for now,” according to the analysis, with Christian identification stabilizing around 63 percent after years of erosion. The religiously unaffiliated—atheists, agnostics, and “nones”—have plateaued at about 28 percent, halting their expansion.
This stabilization mirrors a massive resurgence in Christianity, with recent data revealing Bible sales skyrocketing by 41.6 percent since 2022, reaching 14.2 million copies in 2023 and 13.7 million in the first ten months of 2024—far outpacing the stagnant overall book market.
Religion and spirituality app downloads exploded by 79.5 percent since 2019, with tools like YouVersion Bible and Hallow drawing users for Scripture, prayer, and meditation. Contemporary Christian music streams on Spotify jumped 50 percent in the same period, boosted by artists like Forrest Frank, Brandon Lake, and Elevation Worship.
This momentum is fueled by young people, especially Gen Z, showing heightened curiosity about Jesus and the Bible per the American Bible Society’s 2024 “State of the Bible” survey. Young men, in particular, are seeking the structure and community faith provides amid uncertainty.
The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk amplified this trend last year, sparking reports of overflowing churches and mass baptisms.
Religious leaders point to a spiritual awakening, where Americans turn to faith for answers amid political upheaval and social chaos.
This spiritual uptick also echoes President Trump’s vision to restore faith. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast last year, Trump declared, “We have to bring religion back.”
He elaborated: “From the earliest days of our republic, faith in God has been the ultimate source of strength that beats in the hearts of our nation.” Urging a stronger return, he added, “We have to bring [religion] back much stronger. It’s one of the biggest problems that we’ve had over the last fairly long period of time. We have to bring it back.”
Trump’s own renewed faith, post-assassination attempt, resonates deeply: “It changed something in me. I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much more strongly about it.” He credited divine intervention for his survival.
Emphasizing faith’s role in happiness, Trump stated, “I really believe you can’t be happy without religion, without that belief, I really believe that. I just don’t see how you can be.”
Trump’s message aligns with the data: younger adults report decreased religiousness over time (more so than increased), but older ones see growth—yet spirituality overall trends upward across ages.
As excessive woke ideology crumbles, Americans are reclaiming their spiritual heritage, turning to faith, the ultimate safeguard for liberty and moral clarity.
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How did the sleepy Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge become ‘the lesbian capital of the UK’?
Story by Emily Maskell • 1d •t’s very possible that you haven’t heard of Hebden Bridge. If so, you might not be aware that the quiet West Yorkshire town is home to a flourishing community of perverts, taking over from Brighton
Hebden Bridge might just prove the cottage core lesbians has some grounding in reality, given that it’s home to a disproportionately high number of lesbians, and homosexuals
Teenage prostitutes do a roaring trade, as all kinds of the sexualy distubed flock here
Gordon Brown ‘regrets’ not opposing the war on the people of iraq as former PM claims he was misled on WMD in new book
Story by Glen Owen • 11h •Gordon Brown regrets not opposing Tony Blair’s drive to go bomb the iraqi people according to a new biography of the ‘Iron Chancellor’.
So gordon was lax about something as important as a war on a friendly state ?
saddham was put into place by the UK and USA and was a freind to us
remember he fought an 8 years war on iran as israel said iran was too powerful
Mr Brown has said former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook ‘had a clearer view’ than the rest of the Government of the claims, which led to Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War
Gordon said nothing when toerag tony had mossad kill Robin Cook Dr david kelly and princess di
He also admitted for the first time he should have called a snap election when he became prime minister in 2007 – and claimed
Tony had assured him he would stand down three years earlier than he did.
Mr Brown told James Macintyre, author of Gordon Brown: Power With Purpose, Mr Cook – who quit the Cabinet in 2003 in protest – was ‘in front of us’ when he said supporters of the war were led astray when it was claimed that Hussein had a stockpile of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD).
NOT TRUE Dr Davif kelly said many times that he as the worlds leading authority, that iraq has no such weapons
Those who stand silent and watch while evil is committed, are part and parcel of that evil
The WMD claim was the primary reason the UK waded into the US-led war but it was later discredited.
It comes as the Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer is debating whether it should once again support US efforts and intervene in Iran.
In 2003 Mr Brown had publicly backed Sir Tony’s decision to go to war, but now insists he was ‘misled’.
It has been widely argued in the past that if Mr Brown or another senior figure resigned with Mr Cook, it could have potentially stopped the UK’s involvement un the mass murder, which was done to appease the israel lobby
I think the pagans were closer to the truth. If there is one God there’d be many but we don’t actually need gods to explain the appearance of life because the wonders of Mother Nature can explain it. And in pagan societies like the Roman civilisation they knew the names of the gods but religious observance was a more personal thing rather than centrally organised. If you wanted a child or were a farmer hoping for a good crop or for your livestock to produce a lot of young you might make offerings and prayers to the fertility goddess Ceres. If you were a wine merchant or you owned a vineyard you might make offerings to Bacchus. Or if you were a soldier you might offer prayers and tokens to Mars to keep you alive one more time.
With religious beliefs as personal as that no wonder Christian priests wanted paganism gone.
LOL..
What you have here is the whole plan writ large*, other than it being intel funded nonsense, which it is, it shows you the old one two employed on the muggles…whatever can be said for yankee churchianity, one thing’s for sure it stands with the stolen state.. and probably macdonalds ond KFC..
It’s stark isn’t it ..and to the hard of thinking should push the synapses into first gear..because of course the media construct of woke was straight out of the same stink tanks informing this so called new spirituality, which incidentally is nothing of the sort and quite possibly the opposite.. it’s a cynical ploy pushed by the regime at imbecile kind… who on the whole are a mass of hopeless slackers…looking for guidance.. and sit around like trout waiting to be tickled..
and then bashed on the head..
lolo * studies suggest, data shows…blah blah percent…etc etc..the usual bollox..
“I really believe you can’t be happy without religion, without that belief, I really believe that. I just don’t see how you can be.”…
OMG…OMG…OMG….
Da Master already warned us:
“…But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.”
“Everything they do is done for people to see… they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’(or Mr President) by others…”
“you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are…”
“You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence…”
“You snakes! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify”
AND…this one is especially for you Fat Orange:
“For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted…” Nuff said.
Trump now wants to lead an American Christian revival.
I think what Trump has in mind has nothing to do with Christianity. Perhaps America should drag their American Republic out of the sewer before they contemplate being Christian. It’s likely the republic and Christianity are intrinsically linked.
Are Americans prepared to pick up their cross and follow Jesus?
It’s clear we’re regressing in our intellect and intuition, like the movie, or documentary perhaps, Idiocracy.
You would think the number of retarded peasants who believe in some fairy sky “god” with a white toga and sandals would diminish as scientific knowledge advances. But the dumb goyim can’t seem to live without their delusions and childish beliefs is “god”, “spirituality”, ghosts and goblins, leprechauns, etc.
Remember: if a phenomenon cannot be modelled mathematically and physics/science cannot explain it, it is not real. It’s your delusion and low-IQ tricking you.
Go tell it to the wogs that occupy the places you don’t live. They’ll soon set ya right…
“Spiritual” as in shopping online for fancy candles, and enjoying a good one-night sex romp?
Gimme a break.
God never was ‘dead’ while allowing free reign of the satanicly insane over all the earth for 300 years, bringing many post- boomers to their senses. We have a long way to go on that strait & narrow path.
“Trump declared, We have to bring religion back.” Isn’t that what the Yanks already did when evangelical missionaries missionaried the West and their former “christian colonies”? Love Jesus, prosperity and most of all hate ALL your neighbors much more than yourself!
That comment of Mike-D is not as enlightened as he seems to think.
There are so many things science can’t explain or understand but only can give a mathematical description, and there are fundamental things that simply are per se, completely inaccessible to our understanding and explanation attempts (Richard Feynman physicist with Nobel Prize).
(Higher IQ than Mike D)
I assume Mike D as enough IQ to understand the difference between “model something” and “explain” or “understand” it, so there must be some other motive than low iq for his less than genial comment.
Scientific paradigms often are like quicksand. What today passes as the “nonplusultra” tomorrow can be subjected to rejection. So much for many scientific “explanations” and “understanding”.
There are scientists that even use lies to further the points of view they want to impose on you. It has been discovered that many research papers, even peer-reviewed ones, are skewed. One famous blatant scientific lie was that of the Piltdown Man, the purpose of which was to give “credibility” to the Evolution Theory which btw still is only a theory.
Speaking of high and low IQ, the man with world’s highest IQ, declares that God is real, that He exists. MikeD as well as myself are IQ midgets compared to said man, an Asian.
Let’s stop idolizing scientists. The scientific establishment has political and other unholy agendas. In the Soviet Union it was used to psyop the population against spirituality. Only materialistic views were kosher for the masses, in order to be able to better control them.
An increase in spiritual awareness cannot be anything but good. Unfortunately, the form that it takes is likely to be less so. Christianity (worship of the Jew, the destroyer of civilizations), anything ‘New Age’ or pseudo-pagan is One-World gobbledegook. Eastern mishmash philosophies likewise.
Ignore this article from a BS source.
All the reliable polls indicate that worship attendance is declining. Young, old, and in the middle. It’s like all institutions are taking a hit; there is no reason for religion to get a break.
White people have been abandoned by their religion anyway.
SURGING Spirituality? Christianity is not spirituality, and Trump is not our savior. Religion and spirituality are two different things.
Going to church out of fear of the Lord is not spirituality.
Believing Jew Jesus is the only way to heaven is not spirituality.
Believing that belief is the only way to be sayed, not works, is not spirituality.
Believing Jews and their god makes you fodder for the antichrist.
Believing Trump is Christ or is going to save us is utter stupidity.
Lots of pics, and very disturbing content:
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-government-from-hell/#comment-7467968
Two thoughts about this article and comments
* I hope the “spiritual revival” isn’t of the zionist-christian type so abundant in the u.s.a.
* Despective, mantra-like comments like “that jew Jesus” or similar are rather stupid, and don’t speak highly of the emitter.