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.

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

@#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 ... 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...

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

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