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Practicing Christians have highest levels of human flourishing: study

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Those who identify as non-religious experience a lower level of human flourishing than the general public, while practicing Christians enjoy the most flourishing, according to a new report.

The latest installment of the State of the Bible USA 2024 report, released by the American Bible Society on Thursday, focuses on “Nones and Nominals.” The title of the seventh chapter of the report refers to the religiously unaffiliated and those who identify as a member of a religious group but do not attend religious services at least once a month.

The latest batch of research, based on 2,506 responses to a survey collected between Jan. 4 through 23, contains information about the demographic characteristics of the religiously unaffiliated. The new chapter begins by sharing data finding that the non-religious share of the population increased from 23% in 2021 to 26% in 2022. It has remained steady at slightly more than one-fourth of the U.S. population since then.

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