Did faith fall off a cliff during COVID? New study says no.

[webmdave]

(RNS) — Religious life in America was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. But did it lead to a loss of faith as well as a decline in churchgoing?

The post Did faith fall off a cliff during COVID? New study says no. appeared first on Religion News Service.

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[◊ Weezer ◊]

5 hours ago, webmdave said:

(RNS) — Religious life in America was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. But did it lead to a loss of faith as well as a decline in churchgoing?

The post Did faith fall off a cliff during COVID? New study says no. appeared first on Religion News Service.

View the full article

 

I don't remember where I saw it, but that doesn't agree with an article I saw a few days ago.   Is it possible Religion News Service is suffering from religious delusion?

[older]

Well there are a number of surveys. Pew has one but it's complicated and not easy to summarize. And here's another that goes against the RNS article:

 

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-covid-effect-religious-beliefs.html

Published in the Journal of Religion and Health, a recent study surveyed Christian and irreligious people online at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests that those with strongly held convictions in their Christian faith, or who held no-religious belief, strengthened belief in their positions following the pandemic's onset.

[freshstart]

Here is the original research article from the Journal of Religion and Health. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-021-01296-5

I can't help but think that any source with the word "religion" is not going to be biased (from conducting their research to analyzing results) in favor of religion.  But that is just my bias against these sources.