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My guess is that the extreme hatred flowing out of outspoken "Christians" in the US is a huge turn-off, as it should be.
They have tech now. And conspiracy theories. Lots of stuff to cult about. They can build their own religion if they want.
For their study, Schnabel and his colleagues used data from the National Study of Youth and Religion. This included four waves of longitudinal survey data and 183 in-depth interviews conducted from 2003 to 2013. The sample included over 1,300 individuals, each tracked from adolescence into young adulthood. [...] The number of respondents attending religious services dropped dramatically between 2003 and 2013.
The study used data that's 12 years old! Millennials are not young adults anymore. At this point it's well known that Americans, especially the younger cohorts, are moving away from religion, so why even bother reanalyzing ancient data?
Gen Z is more religious and conservative, than millennials, a lot more
It is very useful to reanalyze old data. Recently, a study came out that concluded that we have misunderstood the role of nutrition and calories in fitness, and it examined studies over a period of decades to come to the conclusions. You don't always need new data to make new conclusions.
Here's my theory why:
Because I don't need God to be a good person, or know what good morals are.
Not to mention you'll do a better job at it if you think for yourself on the subject rather than delegating it to a spiritual leader with potentially dubious agendas
should be happening with gen z and alpha too, but gen z has more right wingers than previous generations, due to significant propaganda.
Propaganda cultivated and disseminated by Boomers.
Decades later, the root rot is still Boomers.
because its bullshit?
Good for them.
These ancient lies designed for crowd control have been horrible these past thousand years.
Not that modern political groups or sects etc are much better...
Lmao because it's horse shit that's why
Source: me, a 37-yo exmormon who was all-in, true believer, until his mid 20s.
You know what's funny tho
I probably would have a lot more tail if I was attending a church.
Part of this is just that the socially conservative pressure to fit in has eased. Time was you had to be "religious" to fit in to communities and it was seen as part of American identity.
I find it hard to believe 75% of Americans are religious. In the UK 37% identify as non religious. 45% identify as Christian yet churches have emptied our and most young people only end up in one for marriages or funerals. People say they're Christian but I have no doubt a large chunk of those people are just ticking a box on a census form as it's part of their identity.
To understand these trends more fully, the researchers analyzed interview data from 54 participants whose religious involvement had significantly declined over the decade.
These interviews revealed a recurring theme: many young people left institutional religion not because they stopped caring about spirituality, but because they felt a growing disconnect between their personal values and the teachings or practices of religious organizations. They spoke of churches that felt judgmental, hypocritical, or out of touch—particularly on issues of gender and sexuality. Participants described feeling alienated by institutions that seemed to limit, rather than support, their pursuit of authenticity, justice, and self-understanding.