Confusion about ‘Christian’, ‘atheist’ labels
In a 2018 Pew Research Center survey of 4,700 adults in the USA, one in five respondents who self-identified as ‘Christian’ admitted to not actually believing in God as described in the Bible. And 1% said they did not believe in any higher power at all.
And while none of those in the survey who described themselves as atheists believed in the God of the Bible, almost one in five (18%) said they believed in some other kind of higher power or spiritual force in the universe.
- When Americans say they believe in God, what do they mean? pewforum.org, 25 April 2018.
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