Three charts that prove America is shifting away from religion

[trotsky]

http://qz.com/525500/three-charts-that-prove-america-is-shifting-away-from-religion/

Multiple studies this year confirm: As Quartz first reported in June, a survey of several studies spanning nearly 50 years and 11 million US students, published in PLoS ONE, shows that American millennials are far less religious than previous generations. Among college students, in particular, the study found that the nation’s percentage of nonbelievers has tripled since the late 1960s.



Attendance at religious services has also plummeted; whereas very few students opted out of church services in the early 1970s, more than a quarter of millennials abstained in the 2010s.



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The Pew study found not only that a large portion of young Americans identify as atheist or agnostic, but also that older millennials become even less religious as they age. And non-belief, as it turns out, appears to have “a higher retention rate than most other major religious groups,” the study observes: 67% of millennials who were raised without religion remain unaffiliated later in life.

[haikugal]

1. This is good news!

Not fast enough for me though.

[trotsky]

3. Yes, slow... but in terms of historical trends,

this is happening at light speed!

[randys1]

2. Good news. My concern is as religion loses it's hold over people, will the

rightwing type religious person still be around while there are no good religious people.

One of the best human beings on this planet is a preacher radio guy

named MARK THOMPSON, Black guy, Christian, liberal, etc.

I want to support good religious people so they can counter the bad ones.