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Phil Zuckerman
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Author, Professor, Boogie-boarder.
Secular Studies. Humanism. Apples.

Political science 46%
Sociology 34%

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This is the decline in membership of the Seven Sisters of Mainline Protestant Christianity.

American Baptist: -24%
Disciples of Christ: -74%
Evangelical Lutheran: -45%
Presbyterian Church USA: -62%
Episcopal: -36%
United Church of Christ: -57%
United Methodist: -40%

Ashes to ashes

Family/childhood home gone. My folks lived there for 60 years. Now they are old. Lost everything. Neighborhood all ashes. Town all ashes.

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Being politically liberal and being highly religious are just not compatible.

Among white people who never attend:
45% are liberal.
Among weekly+ attenders:
11% are liberal.

That same pattern is there for every single racial group.

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When do people leave religion?

According to this survey of 2,400 nones, there's a specific window of time:

15-25 years old.

That's when more than half of non-religious folks head for the exits.

The most popular age was 18.

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For people who were raised in an evangelical household, but left that - where do they end up?

In the 1970s:
56% became mainline Protestants
20% became non-religious.

In the 2020s:
18% became mainline Protestants
59% became non-religious.

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About 60% of white evangelicals identify as "very conservative" or "conservative."

About the same share of atheists describe themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal."

There's no religious group I can find that is evenly balanced between left and right on this metric.

I write books because I enjoy it.

But writing books today is like making horse shoes.

Kinda neat, but mostly useless.

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The next Congress will include:

- 1 "Humanist" (Rep. Jared Huffman)
- 1 "agnostic" (Yassamin Ansari)
- 1 "none" (Emily Randall)
- Nearly two dozen Democrats who chose not to answer the religion question

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/one-new-me...
One new member of Congress is openly agnostic. Another's religion? "None."
CQ Roll Call says two new members of Congress will identify as openly non-religious
www.friendlyatheist.com

And by the way weed makes me anxious. I don’t smoke it. 😮‍💨


Why are the non-religious always at the forefront of social progress?
In 2021, a majority of evangelicals favored legalizing marijuana for the first time.

Support for legalization in 1973 vs 2022:

Evangelicals: 9% -> 52%
Mainline: 18% -> 73%
Black Protestant: 17% -> 90%
Catholic: 20% -> 65%
Other Faith: 27% -> 62%
No Religion: 56% -> 87%


When out for a walk, people who give their barking/growling dogs treats to “distract” them are actually just rewarding them and encouraging their viciousness.

Is America losing its religion?
YouTube video by ABC News
www.youtube.com

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“Government sources have told Euronews that the damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.”

t.co/TPpsCAuU9q
https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/26/exclusive-preliminary-investigation-confirms-russian-missile-over-grozny-caused-aktau-cras
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Democracy and secularity seem to go hand-in-hand.

I wonder which causes which?

Or are they both caused by a third factor?

This morning
5-7 feet


From GOODBYE RELIGION by Cragun and Smith (2024)


So proud of our Secular Studies series at NYU press!

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1.47%


Secular people always least homophobic.

Explanations?


Not: “Are you….?”

But: “Do you identify as?”

Can someone help me here?
🤔


If
I
Stack
The words
Does it
Make
It
Poetry?
🧐


There are many reasons that murder rates may be high or low.

But clearly, religion is not one of them.

Ryan, how dare you post anything that does not completely support ongoing secularization. 🤯
Fun fact - religious attendance has stopped dropping.

24.8% of folks reported weekly attendance in 2019.

It was 24.5% of respondents in 2023.

That difference is not statistically (or substantively) significant.

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Fun fact - religious attendance has stopped dropping.

24.8% of folks reported weekly attendance in 2019.

It was 24.5% of respondents in 2023.

That difference is not statistically (or substantively) significant.

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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917