Fewer Americans now pray, believe in God

[DavidDvorkin]

The percentage of Americans who prayed or believed in God reached an all-time low in 2014, according to new research led by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge.

A research team that included Ryne Sherman from Florida Atlantic University and Julie J. Exline and Joshua B. Grubbs from Case Western Reserve University analyzed data from 58,893 respondents to the General Social Survey, a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults administered between 1972 and 2014. Five times as many Americans in 2014 reported that they never prayed as did Americans in the early 1980s, and nearly twice as many said they did not believe in God.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/sdsu-fan031816.php

Watching the news, especially reporting about natural disasters, makes it hard to believe that we're making progress, but we are.

[mountain grammy]

1. Can't happen soon enough..

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Indeed.

[progressoid]

3. Ah ha!

Gotcha Athiseists! This proves that you DO have an agenda and yur oppressing teh Christians!@!1

[DavidDvorkin]

5. We're not suppressing them enough!!!

[Warpy]

4. It's especially hard for people who got sucked into prosperity theology

and the end timers who thought the world would end and they'd get raptured years ago, entertaining the rest of us with the sight of their nekkid selves being sucked into the sky. Both theologies have been proven to be hot air creating a vacuum to suck money out of their dwindling bank reserves and fatten the preachers.

It's not easy to be a believer after you've watched religion used as a smokescreen while a bunch of thieves looted you and your country.

[Arugula Latte]

6. And the phrase "there's a sucker born every minute" isn't as relevant anymore

when it comes to religion, because the young folk ain't buyin' what teh preachers iz sellin'.

[sarcasmo]

7. Kick