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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Jan 15

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Donate to Help My Elderly Parents Rebuild After Fire, organized by Ruby Elliott Zuckerman

My folks lost their home of over 60 years. Everything gone. They hav… Ruby Elliott Zuckerman needs your support for Help My Elderly Parents Rebuild After Fire

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Jan 15

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/with-awful...

With awful logic, Christian professor says atheism leads to more sexual assault and self-harm

Correlation does not imply causation. Unless you're sociologist Philip Truscott and you're desperate to publish a bad paper.

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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Jan 14

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%

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Jan 11

Ashes to ashes

Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Jan 9

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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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Jan 8

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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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Jan 7

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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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Jan 6

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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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Jan 6

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.

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Jan 3

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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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · Dec 31

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

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 31

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

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 31

Why are the non-religious always at the forefront of social progress?

Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Dec 30

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%

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 31

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.

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 28

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Secularization porn.

Is America losing its religion?

YouTube video by ABC News

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 26

onlys.ky/reducing-cri...

Reducing crime is easy—and we actually know how to do it

We have a very clear understanding of what kind of action reduces crime in society. Why do we pretend otherwise?

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Azamat Junisbai @azamatistan.bsky.social · Dec 26

“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

t.co

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 23

Democracy and secularity seem to go hand-in-hand.

I wonder which causes which?

Or are they both caused by a third factor?

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 23

This morning
5-7 feet

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 20

From GOODBYE RELIGION by Cragun and Smith (2024)

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 19

So proud of our Secular Studies series at NYU press!

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American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · Dec 19

Some light morning reading to start your Thursday.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Opinion | Democrats, Don’t Forget the Atheists (Gift Article)

Galvanize these voters without alienating of party members of faith would be pretty easy.

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Dec 17

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 17

Secular people always least homophobic.

Explanations?

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 17

Not: “Are you….?”

But: “Do you identify as?”

Can someone help me here?
🤔

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 17

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

But clearly, religion is not one of them.

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Phil Zuckerman @philzuck.bsky.social · Dec 16

Ryan, how dare you post anything that does not completely support ongoing secularization. 🤯

Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Dec 16

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.

Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · Dec 16

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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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · Dec 16

"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

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