CV NEWS FEED // The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University has found that millions of religious people, most of whom are Christian, report that they will not vote in November’s election.
The study relates that only 51% of “people of faith,” including Christians, Muslims, Jews, Mormons, and other religious groups, plan on voting. This means that approximately 104 million religious people will not vote.
The study explained that of religious Americans, 83% are Christian.
Among Christians, it is estimated that 46 million church-attending Protestants and 19 million church-attending Catholics will not participate in the election.
Just the News reports that Arizona Christian University’s president, Len Munsil, said there were two major takeaways from the study: “First, that Christians could be the deciding factor in a bunch of federal and state races – and are choosing not to be. And second, that they are longing for their local church to instruct them on how to think biblically about policy and politics.”
Although many of the Christians surveyed said that their church covered biblical teaching on topics like religious freedom, poverty, and abortion, these study members also stated that they would be interested in receiving the biblical teaching on topics that were not addressed by their pastors, including inflation (67%), economy (64%), immigration and border control (60%), and crime, law, and order (59%).
The study’s lead researcher, Dr. George Barna, explained the implications of the predicted low turnout among Christians.
“The 32 million Christians who regularly attend church services but are not likely to vote,” he said, “represent a far larger margin than the combined number of votes that decided the 2020 election in key battleground states.”
Barna added, “If church leaders, family members, and close friends will use their influence to get reticent voters from their churches to cast a ballot on November 5, the election outcome will be meaningfully affected.”