Assertion: religion | /r/CapableOf | lose its influence
Facets:
value: on american life
type: LOCATION
value: in 1999
type: TEMPORAL
value: in 2003
type: TEMPORAL
value: in 1997
type: TEMPORAL
value: compared with 59%
type: OTHER
value: in 1991
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Over three-quarters of Americans (77%) say religion is losing its influence on American life, while 20% say religion's influence is increasing.
text: In August 2010, 67% of Americans said religion was losing influence, compared with 59% who said this in 2006.
text: In addition to the previous peak in views that religion was losing its influence measured in 1969 and 1970, at least 60% of Americans thought religion was losing its influence in 1991-1994, in 1997 and 1999, in 2003, and from 2007 to the present.
text: In addition to the previous peak in views that religion was losing its influence measured in 1969 and 1970, at least 60% of Americans thought religion was losing its influence in 1991-1994, in 1997 and 1999, in 2003, and from 2007 to the present.
text: The view most Americans hold -- that religion is losing its influence on American life -- does not appear to reflect personal religiousness, but rather appears to reflect widely shared judgments on factors relating to the course of events in the U.S.
text: The fact that most Americans think the country would be better off if more Americans were religious shows that many of those who believe religion is losing its influence may think this is a negative state of affairs.
text: Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (79%), white mainline Protestants (67%), black Protestants (56%), Catholics (71%), and the religiously unaffiliated (62%) all agreed that religion was losing influence on American life; 53% of the total public said this was a bad thing, while just 10% see it as a good thing.