Facebook post in regard to the following article:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/gallup-poll-church-gop-christian-right-2024-democracy.html
Love them or hate them, the facts are clear and obvious. America is well on the way to ceasing to be a religious nation.
>On the eve of the 21st century, 8 percent of Americans identified with no religion in Gallup’s polling. Today, that figure is 21 percent.
... Two-thirds of Americans born before 1946 belong to a religious institution, according to Gallup. That drops to 58 percent among baby boomers, 50 percent among Generation X, and 36 percent among millennials (the pollster’s limited data from zoomers indicates that they are roughly as irreligious as their cooler, wiser immediate predecessors).<
Three data points mark a trend. Four data points plus a strong fifth indicator = Withering on the vine.
This is not a slight decline in religion, this is falling off the cliff.
Emotionally, nostalgically, I found this sad. Considering how religion has perverted the political process and even rational thought in America, I find it comforting. Not unusual for me, finding two opposing positions well contained within my scope of self.
As for the political aspects, I’ve been saying since the days of Reagan that Republicans have lost the war of demographics. America is changing. The only question is how much damage can the Republicans do before they’re finally forced out?
The answer is, much more than I thought they could!
The article concludes:
> Thus, the coming decade of U.S. politics may be defined, in part, by the struggle to prevent conservative Christianity from taking democracy down with it.<
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