"After decades of men leading the way in becoming “nones,” or religiously unaffiliated, young women are now taking up that charge. In PRRI’s data, nonreligious Gen Z women outnumber nonreligious Gen Z men, 39% to 31%; in Barna’s, it’s 38% to 32%; and i...
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"After decades of men leading the way in becoming “nones,” or religiously unaffiliated, young women are now taking up that charge. In PRRI’s data, nonreligious Gen Z women outnumber nonreligious Gen Z men, 39% to 31%; in Barna’s, it’s 38% to 32%; and in a study from the Survey Center on American Life, it’s 39% to 34%."
~ Jana Riess
#religion #politics #gender #GenZ #women #men
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman "says that in addition to the classic reasons why Gen Zers are dropping out of religion (e.g., that they stopped believing), there’s a political element at work as well. More than 60% of young adults who had left organized religion said they did so in part because of its poor treatment of LGBTQ individuals."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"'For a lot of Gen Z women, the current intermingling of religion and politics on the political right is very unappealing because they’re more progressive on many issues, including support for LGBTQ rights and abortion rights,' Deckman said. 'I think many young women see the church or organized religion as being — if not hostile, then certainly not supportive of their political values.'”
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Cookiefiendreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I left religion at the age of 15 over pretty much the same issues--60 years ago. Religion has only gotten worse in the intervening decades.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cookiefiend last edited by
@LPerry2 I agree that it's gotten more and more weaponized, though my recollection of having grown up Southern Baptist in the 1950s and 1960s is that it and other right-wing white evangelical churches were very weaponized back then, too, but about different issues. They seem always to need an enemy.
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Cookiefiendreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I was a Catholic--as in Catholic schools through 7th grade--but it became apparent to me that I could either be a good Catholic or consider myself a human being (only men count as human beings in the Catholic hierarchy). The Catholic church has gotten worse and worse since then.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cookiefiend last edited by
@LPerry2 Certainly weaponized segments of it have gotten much worse, and those segments wield enormous power in US Catholicism. I find European Catholicism quite different, though.
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Cookiefiendreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy There's always been a liberal element in the Catholic church, even in the U.S.
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Darwin Woodkareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
we left because my then six year old got tired of being told he was supposed to believe in "fairy tales" and the Sunday school teacher didn't enjoy him having a better argument than they did
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Bleeding Heart Liberalreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Ppl noticed,
️ Allowed Politics into Their Religious Communities.
Churches ruined their own Reputation by allowing Perverts, Politics, Grifters & HATE into ️ Communities.
Guaranteed, no Democrats are concerned with peoples religion. Cult behavior aside.
Religion was understood, 2 be a personal choice as ISWOMEN’S HEALTHCARE -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cookiefiend last edited by
@LPerry2 Yes, though the US Catholic bishops have worked assiduously for some decades now to weed it out and run liberal Catholics away — and in that, they've largely succeeded. The US church is now dominated by hard-right leaders and laity, to a great extent.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Darwin Woodka last edited by
@darwinwoodka I suspect your story is one of many similar ones.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Bleeding Heart Liberal last edited by
@Awoke Sounds correct to me.