Can you inherit faith?

Graham Nicholls  |  Comment
Date posted:  16 Apr 2025
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Can you inherit faith?

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We greatly appreciate the blessing of being brought up in a Christian home, but does this guarantee children from Christian families will all be converted?

A recent study by Pew Research Center conducted across the world showed that Christianity and Buddhism don’t have a very high success rate of passing on faith through the generations.

In the UK there is a significant proportion of people who identify as non-religious who were raised as Christians, suggesting a departure from their parents' faith. This is part of a trend of “disaffiliation” or “religious switching” going on across the world where Christianity is definitely a significant “loser”, experiencing an apparent decline.

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