Young Americans shifting US towards becoming less religious nation

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Young Americans shifting US towards becoming less religious nation

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Tuesday 3 November 2015 21.31 GMT

Declining levels of religious belief and practice among the generation of Americans born in the last two decades of the 20th century is shifting the US towards becoming a less devout nation, a major new survey has found.

The growing proportion of “millennials” – young adults now in their 20s and 30s – who do not belong to any organised faith is changing America’s religious landscape, says a report by the respected Pew Research Center, based on a survey of 35,000 people.

The religiously unaffiliated or “nones”, who include atheists and those who describe their religion as “nothing in particular”, have grown to 23% of the US population, compared to 16% at the time of the last comparable survey in 2007.

But three out of four Americans still have some religious faith, mainly Protestant denominations, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. And 89% of US adults say they believe in God – including a significant proportion of “nones” – making America more religiously inclined than other advanced industrial nations.

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[Goblinmonger]

1. Yes. I thousand times yes.

[procon]

2. Make it so.

The rabid, in your face fanaticism displayed by the likes of that Kim Davis and similar ilk, has probably done more to squelch the proliferation of religion than all the complaints combined.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Nice to see some good news.

[randys1]

4. I have prayed for this for years

I will laugh even if you dont

[yourout]

5. +1....the biggest threat to the planet is a religous fanatic with a nuke(s).

[MisterP]

10. or hundreds of secular governments promising their millions earthly utopia through logging, large

families, heavy industry, and pesticides

[Warren Stupidity]

6. The splain already went out for this. We should ignore polling data,

especially with respect to religion, because --words--.

[Yorktown]

7. "making America more religiously inclined than other advanced industrial nations."

Still a long way to go towards sanity..

Look at the blue dot on the right of the graph, far above the curve, labelled USA

[NonMetro]

12. Religious Nut Case - RNC.

But even among believers, there is uncertainty, and that always been true, too:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2014/12/creationism_poll_how_many_americans_believe_the_bible_is_literal_inerrant.html

[NonMetro]

8. God's Been Dead Before.

What's the count up to this time?

[AtheistCrusader]

9. 0 because he doesn't exist.

[Cartoonist]

11. Poor word choice

shifting the US towards becoming a less devout nation

I would have said: shifting the US to a more enlightened and intelligent nation.