Eddie Gibbs, a world Christianity specialist from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA commented:

"The jury is still out on whether the United States will become as secular as Europe one day...The predictions from the 1960s that American church attendance and conventional belief would decline did not come true. But I think it is true that beliefs are no longer impacting the culture." _2,3

As of 2018, Christian affiliation among adults in the U.S. has been recently dropping by about one percentage point per year.

The Reverend John Navone, a Jesuit theologian at the Gregorian University in Rome, cautioned:

"Just because people say they are religious, does not make it so, no more than if they say they are intelligent or moral."

He suggested that the data is difficult to interpret without a clearer definition of religion. He said:

"All the problems that Jesus had were with religious people. According to the time, the Scribes and the Pharisees had religion, and Jesus didn't at all...The truly religious people I know don't boast about it. They have a radical humility. And that goes for Einstein as well." ₄
 

Kristine Greenaway, spokesperson for the World Council of Churches in Geneva, said:

"Probably more Americans go to church than in Canada, true, but it would be wrong to jump to assumptions about spirituality or personal faith based on an inaccurate perception....[Europeans are spiritual] but not necessarily in an organizational sense. They have the same questions about a supreme being, about prayer and life after death and they have a deep and sophisticated belief system, even if they are not part of an institution." ₄
 

Larry Witham of the Washington Times commented that America's:

"...high rates of professed belief often have been attributed to religious freedom and separation of church and state, whereas in most other countries a state-established religion or a secular state policy has been enforced." ₃

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