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Fewer Americans believe in God, pray daily and regularly go to church than in 2007, a poll says. More than 35,000 Americans were polled about their religious beliefs over four months in 2014 by the Pew Research Center. The study, called the 2014 Religious Landscape, was released Tuesday. It updates research done seven years ago. The Pew Research center said the percentage of Americans who are “absolutely certain” God exists fell to 63 percent from 71 percent. One reason for this, the center says, is the large population of young adults – called Millennials – who say they don’t belong to any religion. The other reason is that older, more religious Americans, are dying. The people who don’t belong to a religion are called “nones” by the survey’s writers. “Nones” made up 16 percent of the adult population in 2007. This time around, the number is 23 percent. Among the “nones,” about 61 percent said they believed in God. But the research center said there is a “great deal of stability in the U.S. religious landscape” in spite of the lower numbers. Within the category of people who are affiliated with a religion, the numbers stayed mostly stable.
* believe in ~ = ~이 존재함을 믿다; ~의 능력을 믿다/ poll = 여론 조사를 하다/ religious beliefs = 신앙, 종교적인 믿음/ belong to ~ = ~에 속하다; ~소유[것]이다/ make ~ up = ~을 이루다[형성하다]/ a great deal[good] deal of ~ = 다량의[많은] ~/ stability = 안정, 안정성[감]/ in spite of ~ = ~에도 불구하고/ be affiliated with ~ = ~와 관계가 있다; ~와 사귀다/ stable = 안정된, 차분한
