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Author: onepoorguy 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 48470 
Subject: declining religion
Date: 08/25/2023 3:01 PM
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Article in the NYT. Religiosity continues it's decline in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/christi...

For the first time in Gallup polling, only a minority of adults in the United States belong to a church, synagogue or mosque.

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To be clear, the United States remains an unusually pious nation by the standards of the rich world. Pew reports that 63 percent of American adults identify as Christian ' but that's down from 78 percent in 2007. And in that same period the percentage of adults who say they have no religion has risen to 29 percent from 16 percent.

Data linked in the article:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/ho...
https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-members...

A variety of factors are at work, including the view that "the church" is a scandal (e.g. pedophilia, intolerance of diversity -e.g. gays-, etc). I also suspect the internet has some influence. There's a reason people say "the Internet: where religions go to die". On the old TMF board, a few folks that showed up to Atheist Fools to convert the heathen were instead converted to disbelief.
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Author: sano ✶🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: declining religion
Date: 08/26/2023 12:26 PM
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Thank God.
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Author: Lapsody ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: declining religion
Date: 08/26/2023 4:01 PM
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Another reason for religion to circle the wagons and declare they are under assault, erect barriers, and try to make having normal sex a labyrinth fraught with pitfalls.
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