According to polling experts, Christianity is declining in the USA. Gallup says in 2011, 92% of Americans (U.S. citizens) said they believed in God. And 85% of Americans ages 70 to 88 professed to be Christian.
Pew says since 2007, the total number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined 8% to 70.6%. This change is not due to competing religions; rather, it is because of an increasing number of people not having any religion at all. And this change is occurring mostly among young people. Baby-boomers are 78% Christian; Generation Xers are 70% Christian; and Millennials are 57% Christian. (These statistics are from The Arizona Republic newspaper, December 30, 2015.)
So, the USA is still as a nation that guarantees freedom of religion, and its government does not subscribe to a particular religion, but a declining majority of its citizens are professing Christians.
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