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Thursday, February 27, 2025

The U.S. has become much less Christian, driven in large part by Gen Z and younger Millennials, according to a new Pew study.

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A major new study on religious views in the United States finds - as Americans' connection to organized religion continues to fade - there are deep divides over the appropriate role for religion in American public life, with sizable shares in favor of a more formalized role.

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) February 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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More from the study...

... Why it matters: "This is a broad-based social change," says Alan Cooperman, the director of religion research at the Pew Research Center.

- - - "We've had rising shares of people who don't identify with any religion " so-called 'nones' " and declining shares who identify as Christian, in all parts of the country, in all parts of the population, by ethnicity and race, among both men and women, and among people at all levels of the educational spectrum," he says about the survey findings.

By the numbers: Fewer than half of 18- to 29-year olds identify as Christian (45%), and nearly the same portion have no religious affiliation (44%), according to Pew's Religious Landscape Study, which surveyed more than 35,000 Americans.

- - - Meanwhile, 78% of those 65 and older identify as Christian.

Religiously unaffiliated adults came in at 29%, up from 16% in 2007, according to the study.



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 01:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Maybe the Christian foray into far-right politics is turning the younger folk away from religion?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 01:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The Christian Right Is Helping Drive Liberals Away From Religion

fivethirtyeight.com

Then there's this from the Wayback Machine.... the Protestants going Nationalist to fight the Catholic JFK.

www.politico.com

Young people aren't buying far-right religious beliefs

utsnyc.edu

Which is a good thing.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-26 01:37 PM | Reply

Who would be a Christian today?
Racist unemployed d-bags who cry and whine about history.
---- religion.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-26 07:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#4 ... Who would be a Christian today? ...

That's an excellent question.

Has Christianity in the US become too political?

And as a corollary, if I may ask, as a result of that political turn, should religions no longer enjoy their tax-exempt status? Why should bowling alleys be tax-exempt?

I mean, removing the tax-exempt status of religion would help fund Pres Trump's $4.5 tax cuts for billionaires.

Mr Musk, are you listening?



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 09:35 PM | Reply

The Nones still have a way to go to catch those classified as Phony Christians. They are the ones who know who Jesus would shoot first, they know the names of those two Corinthian guys, they can justify not feeding the hungry and think it fun to post photos of unhoused people sleeping in the park. The Phonies know the lyrics to almost every song they sing at their Sunday service (often confused for a concert by a local oldies cover band) and they donate $50 each year to the local United Way...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-27 04:17 PM | Reply

I was raised christian, but i got over it when they came down on the pro Bush/iraq war side. In the years since then they've only gotten worse, and now worship a man who is the literal biblical description of the antichrist.

I want nothing to do with those morons. Their "christianity" is a fascist cult now.

Anyone who follows the teachings of christ is cool.

But that's zero percent of the christian nationalists in power now.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-27 05:14 PM | Reply

" so-called 'nones' "

really? Really?
My nouns are
Antitheist/Maltheist/Misotheist or Dystheist
please reserve your insipid balbutive for the abrahamists

#8 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-02-27 08:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Isaiah 45:7
King James Version

7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

#9 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-02-27 08:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I've been an atheist for over 50 years. The indoctrination didn't take, I realized the entire concept of a god was idiotic as a small child.

It still shocks how much stupidity some people believe is real.

#10 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-02-28 01:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I've been an atheist for over 50 years. The indoctrination didn't take, I realized the entire concept of a god was idiotic as a small child.

It still shocks how much stupidity some people believe is real.

#10 | Posted by DarkVader

Sounds strangely familiar...might you have been born around 1962-65?

My parents were pretty hard core evangelicals - surprising considering my dad was an engineer and an air force officer. They came to their senses when I was about 10 and my sister was about 13.

At no time did my sister and I fall for that nonsense.

#11 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-28 08:53 PM | Reply

#11 BILLY BOY

The Air Force to this day is an evangelical hotbed.

#12 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-02-28 09:04 PM | Reply

@#5 ... removing the tax-exempt status of religion would help fund Pres Trump's $4.5 tax cuts for billionaires. ...

Maybe we should look at this elimination of a tax-exempt status more closely...

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 09:21 PM | Reply

@#11 ... They came to their senses ...

How, or maybe, why, do you think they "came to their senses?"


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 09:24 PM | Reply

11. 1960. Reform Jew. As of about age 8, I never bought into the religious aspect of it, which was barely there even in temples in the 70s.

Nones have been rising in Pew Research for decades.

#15 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-28 09:32 PM | Reply

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