Clergy in the United States continue to face increasing scrutiny and skepticism, according to Gallup’s latest Honesty and Ethics Survey, which found that only 27% of people say clergy members have high or very high levels of honesty and ethics.
In contrast, 25 years ago, that number was 64%
According to Lifeway Research:
Half of Americans rate their honesty as average, while around 1 in 5 say it’s low or very low. Specifically, 6% give pastors a very high rating for their honesty, 21% high, 48% average, 12% low, 6% very low, and 7% aren’t sure.
While the drop in trust continues for pastors, Gallup has found a rebound in Americans’ confidence in the church. In 2025, 36% of U.S. adults said they had a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the church or organized religion, up from a low of 31% in 2022 and 32% in 2024.
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That would be because the trustworthiness of clergy has declined to an historic low, just about second only to the historic low of the pharisees around about 33 AD.
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Zionism and chosen-ism (idolatry AND blasphemy of Christ’s finished work on the cross btw) preached from the pulpit nuked any trust people who actually crack their Bible and turn to any random chapter in the NT had in their pastors.
Challenge: Read the NT, start at Matthew 1, and try to find a single chapter that does not detail Supersessionism in some way. Many times the text is RED. I’ve been reading Matthew to my small children this week and I tell you, it’s in every single chapter.