The rise of "No Religion" in the US. This is the graph that has most surprised me this year. Via @wesyangpic.twitter.com/s5UukYy6Ba
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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.
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The jump in no religion happened after the cold war. Perhaps people were feeling more free to express atheism after communism was defeated?
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Maybe. Another possibility is that the web (&, more broadly, the internet) started to rapidly grow in the early 1990s. I suspect reading the original sources (from GSS and Pew) would help a lot here!
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Recruiting Sergeant: Religion? Recruit: I'm a deist, leaning towards agnosticism in the sense… Sergeant: [Writes 'C of E'] Next.
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In my experience it seems to be a bit of the opppsite. I’ve seen a lot of young people who are fully into it for no apparent reason. I think the way it’s promoted has evolved a lot faster than we think.
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