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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 09:00 PM Oct 2012

Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! Church Night. Young Nones



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Young Nones
http://www.mikemalloy.com/2012/10/young-nones/



It’s Wednesday night, Truthseekers – time for our weekly prayer meeting!

According to a recent Pew research study, the “young nones” are shaping the political future of this country. These are the young adults who claim no affiliation with an organized religion:

Here is a bit of good news for liberals still sunk in despair after last week’s debate. The outcome of the 2012 election may have just become excruciatingly uncertain, but we now have yet more evidence that in the long term, not even God can save the American right

Of course, we already knew that demographic trends bode ill for the GOP. The party is hugely dependent on white voters, who make up an ever-declining share of the electorate. But it also relies on religious voters at a time when, according to a fascinating new report from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans has reached an all-time high.

Perhaps the most important finding in the report, “‘Nones’ on the Rise,” is that, for the first time, there are now as many Americans who claim no religion as there are white evangelicals, the backbone of the GOP. Both groups make up about a fifth of the population, and the number of Americans without religion is on track to surpass the born-again population. About a third of adults under 30 don’t associate themselves with any faith, compared with only 9 percent of those over 65. This is not, the report suggests, simply a result of a general youthful tendency toward apostasy. "Young adults today are much more likely to be unaffiliated than previous generations were at a similar stage in their lives,” it says.

Politically, this is a big deal, because the religiously unaffiliated are as reliably Democratic as white evangelicals are Republican. In 2004 John Kerry won 63 percent of the “no religion” vote, while four years later Barack Obama won 75 percent. “There are roughly twice as many self-described liberals (38%) as conservatives (20%) among the religiously unaffiliated,” the report says. “Among voters overall, this balance is reversed.” Ever since Ronald Reagan came to power in 1980, conservative born-again Christians have had an outsized effect on our politics. We are approaching a point where the nonreligious could be equally influential.

That’s not to say that all of those who reject religious labels are strict rationalists. The report uses the clunky term “religiously unaffiliated” in order to cover the diversity of views among the cohort it’s describing. Only 29 percent of them say they’re atheist or agnostic; the rest describe their religion as “nothing in particular.” Most say that religion isn’t particularly important in their lives, but they’re likely to believe in God, and many describe themselves as “spiritual.”

Still, these are largely secular people, not people who’ve abandoned Christianity for Eastern mysticism or new-age magic. “The unaffiliated are about as likely as Christians to believe in reincarnation, astrology, or the evil eye,” the report says. There are exceptions—30 percent of the unaffiliated believe in “spiritual energy located in physical things such as mountains, trees, and crystals,” compared with 23 percent of Christians. But overall, this is a group that rejects supernaturalism.

For 30 years, Republicans have deployed an aggressive, bombastic piety to their advantage. Now a changing population is turning the party’s social conservatism into a burden.

The growth of this bloc puts Republicans in a bind. Some theorists believe young people are rejecting religious labels precisely they’ve become intertwined with reactionary social policies. The report quotes Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell’s book American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which argued that as the religious right gained power, young Americans “came to view religion … as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political.” And yet, as more secular Americans turn away from the GOP because of its association with the religious right, voters from the religious right will make up a greater and greater share of the party, pushing it to further alienate secularists.

It’s the same dynamic that’s happening with white voters. Republican Party leaders understand that, eventually, they’ll have to reach out to Hispanic voters to survive. But as long as white voters anxious about their declining numbers and cultural influence dominate the GOP, it can’t moderate its positions on issues like immigration without risking a revolt from within.

So too with the culture wars. For 30 years, Republicans have deployed an aggressive, bombastic piety to their advantage. Now a changing population is turning the party’s social conservatism into a burden it can’t shake. You don’t have to believe in God to see the cosmic justice in that.

There may be hope for this nation yet.
Hallelujah.

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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! Church Night. Young Nones (Original Post) cal04 Oct 2012 OP
Greetings From The Bluegrass State Liberal_Dog Oct 2012 #1
Hi Liberal_Dog! ralps Oct 2012 #3
Hi Liberal_Dog. You're 1st cal04 Oct 2012 #4
Hi cal04! Hi Everyone! Crook & I are doing good, How are you all doing? & Here's new kitty gif! ralps Oct 2012 #2
Hi ralps Liberal_Dog Oct 2012 #5
Hi ralps cal04 Oct 2012 #6
You're welcome cal04 & Crook says thanks! ralps Oct 2012 #8
Here's tonight's LOL Kitties & tigers ralps Oct 2012 #7
Thank you ralps cal04 Oct 2012 #9
You're welcome cal04! LOL ralps Oct 2012 #11
Hi cal04 & truthseekers. Graybeard Oct 2012 #10
Hi Graybeard cal04 Oct 2012 #12
Hi Graybeard!! I'm doing good! How are you? ralps Oct 2012 #13
Hi Graybeard Liberal_Dog Oct 2012 #14
Back for Church Night, Truthseekers! spiderpig Oct 2012 #15
Hi spiderpig!, Crook & I are doing good, How are you all doing? Hugs! ralps Oct 2012 #16
Hi ralps & Crook! spiderpig Oct 2012 #17
I hope you're better & Crook says thanks! ralps Oct 2012 #20
Dr. put me on a new med spiderpig Oct 2012 #22
Oh Nos!!!! ralps Oct 2012 #26
Your calico kitty gif look just like my Best Cat Ever - Sam spiderpig Oct 2012 #28
Hi spiderpig cal04 Oct 2012 #18
Hey cal04! spiderpig Oct 2012 #19
I'm good thanks cal04 Oct 2012 #23
Why can't those little guys just stay the same size? spiderpig Oct 2012 #24
LOL it was a lot easier running after cal04 Oct 2012 #25
Anybody else a fan of Food Network? spiderpig Oct 2012 #21
I don't really watch it. I do like Emeril & Anthony Bourdain ralps Oct 2012 #27
Mr. pig's default channels are History/Military/Science spiderpig Oct 2012 #29
Good Night Everyone. Have a great day tomorrow! Take Care. Keep it Lit! cal04 Oct 2012 #30
Good Night Everyone, Have a great day tomorrow, Take Care & Keep It Lit!! ralps Oct 2012 #31

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)
10. Hi cal04 & truthseekers.
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 09:12 PM
Oct 2012

That "cold" opening had me checking the computer, the speakers and everything else to find what was wrong. aaarrrggghh.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
22. Dr. put me on a new med
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 10:35 PM
Oct 2012

Lots of side effects, which she warned about - although I try to be objective, it's really knocking me out. And it's aggravating asthma so I cough and wheeze all the time. Guess it's back to the old stuff.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
28. Your calico kitty gif look just like my Best Cat Ever - Sam
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 11:18 PM
Oct 2012

I had her for 5 years before she died from injection-site cancer. We put her through 3 surgeries and radiation trying to save her life.

It probably would have been more humane to have her euthanized, but I just couldn't. Our (darling) vet offered to come to our house so Sam wouldn't have to take that Last Ride to the vet, but....

I miss her every day.

Sigh.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
24. Why can't those little guys just stay the same size?
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 10:37 PM
Oct 2012

It would be so much easier on us ole folks.

Mr. pig's at work and I'm cooking a turkey burger. Ain't life grand???

cal04

(41,505 posts)
25. LOL it was a lot easier running after
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 10:44 PM
Oct 2012

my own when I was in my 20's
Enjoy that turkey burger, love them!

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
29. Mr. pig's default channels are History/Military/Science
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 11:22 PM
Oct 2012

I watch Food Network (Chopped, Food Network Star, Next Iron Chef, Restaurant Impossible, Chefs vs. City), Bravo (Top Chef) and - OK, gag - Fox (all the Gordon Ramsay shows).

Maybe I should get myself a life.

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