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Americans becoming less religious, especially young adults: poll

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'Americans are becoming less religious, judging by such markers as church attendance, prayer and belief in God, and the trend is more pronounced among young adults, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

The share of U.S. adults who say they believe in God, while still high compared with other advanced industrial countries, slipped to 89 percent in 2014 from 92 percent in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study.

The proportion of Americans who say they are "absolutely certain" God exists fell even more, to 63 percent in 2014 from 71 percent in 2007.

The percentage of Americans who pray every day, attend religious services regularly and consider religion important in their lives are down by small, but statistically significant measures, the survey found.

The trend is most pronounced among young adults, with only half of those born from 1990 to 1996 absolutely certain of their belief in God, compared to 71 percent of the "silent generation," or those born from 1928 to 1945.'


Americans becoming less religious, especially young adults: poll | Reuters


Thank God.

The sooner all this God Club nonsense ends, the better off humanity will be.


Are you watching this Republican leaders...the God Club stuff is on the wane - especially amongst the young.

If you want to get back into the White House any time soon, you had better stop Bible thumping.
 
I am sure it is a trend that will continue.
 
Good, the less we look towards sky gods for guidance the better off we will be as a species.
 
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. – Anonymous
 
With advertising you can sell anything - even this.
 
A part of this generation and religion just isn't important in my life at all.
 
Eh, I count myself as a young person who believes in God (16 seems mighty young to me). Am I christian? No. Do I impose my beliefs on others? No. But do I believe? Yes.

I can't say that this trend particularly worries me, nor does it excite me. I feel a sense of apathy towards it.
 
Good to hear... the day religion stops being is the day humanity will truly flourish.
 
DA60 said:
The sooner all this God Club nonsense ends, the better off humanity will be.
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Tell that to the two hundred million plus people murdered by organized atheists in the last century.
 
DA60 said:
'Americans are becoming less religious, judging by such markers as church attendance, prayer and belief in God, and the trend is more pronounced among young adults, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

The share of U.S. adults who say they believe in God, while still high compared with other advanced industrial countries, slipped to 89 percent in 2014 from 92 percent in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study.

The proportion of Americans who say they are "absolutely certain" God exists fell even more, to 63 percent in 2014 from 71 percent in 2007.

The percentage of Americans who pray every day, attend religious services regularly and consider religion important in their lives are down by small, but statistically significant measures, the survey found.

The trend is most pronounced among young adults, with only half of those born from 1990 to 1996 absolutely certain of their belief in God, compared to 71 percent of the "silent generation," or those born from 1928 to 1945.'


Americans becoming less religious, especially young adults: poll | Reuters


Thank God.

The sooner all this God Club nonsense ends, the better off humanity will be.


Are you watching this Republican leaders...the God Club stuff is on the wane - especially amongst the young.

If you want to get back into the White House any time soon, you had better stop Bible thumping.
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I'd say this isn't terribly surprising based on a simple fact of life that's been in existence for a long time. Generally speaking, most young people, as they enter maturity and adulthood, seek independence and a different path from their parents and one form of rebellion is to move away from the faith they were raised in and lived all their youth. Equally historical, is that when young people get married and start families, they return to their childhood faith in order to raise their own offspring in a similar fashion to how they were raised. Considering the statistical fact that fewer young people are getting married and fewer young people are starting families, married or not, it's not surprising at all that fewer young people are returning to their faith background.

As they get older and marry later in life and start families later in life, I won't be surprised if they return to the faith they were raised in. But with fewer young people opting for the traditional family life, faith based living is also lessening as time goes on.
 
Just to be clear, there's a big difference between participating in organized religion and being religious in spirit and actions. A reduction in those who actively participate in organized religion doesn't equate to an equal reduction in those who are religious.
 
DA60 said:
'Americans are becoming less religious, judging by such markers as church attendance, prayer and belief in God, and the trend is more pronounced among young adults, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

The share of U.S. adults who say they believe in God, while still high compared with other advanced industrial countries, slipped to 89 percent in 2014 from 92 percent in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study.

The proportion of Americans who say they are "absolutely certain" God exists fell even more, to 63 percent in 2014 from 71 percent in 2007.

The percentage of Americans who pray every day, attend religious services regularly and consider religion important in their lives are down by small, but statistically significant measures, the survey found.

The trend is most pronounced among young adults, with only half of those born from 1990 to 1996 absolutely certain of their belief in God, compared to 71 percent of the "silent generation," or those born from 1928 to 1945.'


Americans becoming less religious, especially young adults: poll | Reuters


Thank God.

The sooner all this God Club nonsense ends, the better off humanity will be.


Are you watching this Republican leaders...the God Club stuff is on the wane - especially amongst the young.

If you want to get back into the White House any time soon, you had better stop Bible thumping.
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But not south of the Mason Dixon line.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Just to be clear, there's a big difference between participating in organized religion and being religious in spirit and actions. A reduction in those who actively participate in organized religion doesn't equate to an equal reduction in those who are religious.
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I would have to say that while the Protestant churches are getting weaker the Catholic Church appears to be getting stronger.

When I go at Xmas and Easter Thursday the lines for communion are out the doors in all 4 directions and every priest and nun must help with the Eucharist.
 
Paleocon said:
Tell that to the two hundred million plus people murdered by organized atheists in the last century.
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:roll:

Stalin and hitler were never atheists. they considered themselves Christians.

You lose.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Just to be clear, there's a big difference between participating in organized religion and being religious in spirit and actions. A reduction in those who actively participate in organized religion doesn't equate to an equal reduction in those who are religious.
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Thanks for describing me bro :cool:

That being said, It's rather safe to say that there are a hell of a lot more atheists in America today then back then.

Although you make a valid point, I highly doubt that 100% or even near 100% of the rise we're seeing is simply "non-religious" as opposed to straight up "Atheist."
 
Ancient Herald said:
Yawn.

Argument from ignorance and bigotry.
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pretty much what this thread is about.

amazing how the people that hate bigotry so much support it so well.
 
Ancient Herald said:
Yawn.

Argument from ignorance and bigotry.
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*facefist*

Hitler quit the sacraments around the age of 15, and although that is up for debate, we KNOW FOR A FACT that Hitler did not observe anything in regards to Christianity in his later years including his rise to power all the way to his death.

And even if this was some magical world where you were right, how the hell am I arguing from bigotry?!?!?!?!
 
Luftwaffe said:
"never formally left the church"

:roll:

I was baptized Christian, I guess I'm formally saved despite not caring a bit about Jesus as a deity and what not.
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'In 1945, his sister Paula was recorded as having stated "...I don't believe he ever left the [Catholic] church. I don't know for sure."'

'Hitler, wrote Speer, viewed Christianity as the wrong religion for the "Germanic temperament": Speer wrote that Hitler would say: "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[87] Speer also wrote of observing in Hitler "quite a few examples", and that he held a negative view toward Himmler and Rosenberg's mystical notions.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Hitler_to_confidants


Two things are clear from people VERY close to him;

a) he never 'quit' the Catholic Church (though may have wanted to).

b) he clearly was very religious in the sense that he believed strongly in some form of religion...he just was not sure what.


That is my point...I am against ALL major religions (and all the minor ones I know of). They are for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate (no offense). They often encourage people to do bad and sometimes horrible things to other humans. At the very least, they are a complete and total waste of time.

The fact that God clubs are on the wane in America basically says to me that religions (all of them) are generally on the wane...and that is EXTREMELY good.


I have no interest in debating this as you are clearly a 'religious type' and as such brainwashed by that utter and complete nonsense. Let me know when you are free of that gobbledegook (i.e. have an open mind) and then I will debate this with you.


Good day.
 
DA60 said:
'In 1945, his sister Paula was recorded as having stated "...I don't believe he ever left the [Catholic] church. I don't know for sure."'

'Hitler, wrote Speer, viewed Christianity as the wrong religion for the "Germanic temperament": Speer wrote that Hitler would say: "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[87] Speer also wrote of observing in Hitler "quite a few examples", and that he held a negative view toward Himmler and Rosenberg's mystical notions.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Hitler_to_confidants


Two things are clear from people VERY close to him;

a) he never 'quit' the Catholic Church (though may have wanted to).

b) he clearly was very religious in the sense that he believed strongly in some form of religion...he just was not sure what.


That is my point...I am against ALL major religions (and all the minor ones I know of). They are for the weak and/or the ignorant and/or the desperate (no offense). They often encourage people to do bad and sometimes horrible things to other humans. At the very least, they are a complete and total waste of time.

The fact that God clubs are on the wane in America basically says to me that religions (all of them) are on the wane...and that is EXTREMELY good.


I have no interest in debating this as you are clearly a 'religious type' and as such brainwashed by that utter and complete nonsense. Let me know when you are free of that gobbledegook (i.e. have an open mind) and then I will debate this with you.


Good day.
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Fair points.

(bold) No offense taken, I do not subscribe to any religion.
 
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