michael_nielsen

I think a similar preference cascade is coming for universities.

Why? (Not an argumentative why, just a curious why. This is a claim often made, but usually badly argued - I'd love to see a good argument for it.)

Perhaps people's states of mind haven't changed as much as the labels they use to describe them.

I wondered that; I suspect a lot of "Mainline Protestant"s were pretty nominal Christians. Although the Pew data Maria Chong references elsewhere at least suggests the change is partially due to children and young adults actively rejecting religion.

62.6% are still Christians. The way they broke this into four groups (including “black Protestants”) to measure how the decline has acted on Christian groups differently skews the way this graph presents the data.

That’s not a critique of Pew, btw. For at least thirty years, pollsters have split results of religious surveys to tracks the growth and decline of various denominations and groups within Christianity. So this is a common breakdown in religious data.

That’s me in the corner.

Funny how it coincides with the end of the Cold War

And the internet