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On the other hand, [[Baylor University]] reported in 2015:
On the other hand, [[Baylor University]] reported in 2015:
{{cquote|Recent coverage of American religious life, by focusing on the decline of some of the larger denominations and the new organized life of [[Atheist movement|non-theistic communities]], have missed the larger story that since World War II, religion in the United States has grown spectacularly and ahead of the population curve. America is now the most religious it has ever been with Church membership at an all-time high and relatively new worshiping communities representing the spectrum of the world's religions now spread across the urban landscape. As a nation in which the great majority of its people have affiliated with a religious community, without government coercion, America is possibly the most religious country that the world has ever seen.”<ref>[http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=162855 Scholars Will Challenge “Secularization Myth” Nov. 10 at National Press Club]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Recent coverage of American religious life, by focusing on the decline of some of the larger denominations and the new organized life of [[Atheist movement|non-theistic communities]], have missed the larger story that since World War II, religion in the United States has grown spectacularly and ahead of the population curve. America is now the most religious it has ever been with Church membership at an all-time high and relatively new worshiping communities representing the spectrum of the world's religions now spread across the urban landscape. As a nation in which the great majority of its people have affiliated with a religious community, without government coercion, America is possibly the most religious country that the world has ever seen.”<ref>[http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=162855 Scholars Will Challenge “Secularization Myth” Nov. 10 at National Press Club]</ref>}}
Pew Research reported in that from 2007 to 2014 the number of evangelical Christians has risen in the United States.<ref>[http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-decline-of-evangelicalism-has-been-greatly-exaggerated Evangelicalism Continues to Grow While Christianity in America Declines]</ref>
[[Liberal Christianity]] is shrinking in the United States and some of these individuals are becoming "[[nones]]"/religiously unaffialiated (only 7% if nones are atheists), others are embracing more conservative/fervent forms of Christianity and a small percentage are joining the atheists/agnostic camps.
[[Liberal Christianity]] is shrinking in the United States and some of these individuals are becoming "[[nones]]"/religiously unaffialiated (only 7% if nones are atheists), others are embracing more conservative/fervent forms of Christianity and a small percentage are joining the atheists/agnostic camps.