If millennials leave religion, then what?

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1. Then their kids will simply

react and oppose their lack of belief by becoming believers.

It is not hard for me to observe as I have worked with families and generational psychology to see that Millenials are strongly reactive to the last 25 years of Christian fundamentalism and the New Age movement in America. I see 20 and 30 year olds who are not just 'skeptical', they are against anything that seems like it might be even remotely outside of the mainstream of scientism. They are strongly anti-'woo'. I see the same with regards to deities and religion. They are not just atheists. They are strongly anti-theistic and anti-religion. And honestly, why wouldn't they be?

Give it another 10 to 20 years, and I am willing to bet that there will be a resurgence in the embracing of religions and metaphysical ideas yet again. I hope that it won't be just another massive pendulum swing which American culture is historically known for but that I can't predict. If it isn't, then perhaps we can get back to viewing religion not as an either/or proposition but a both/and. It is rather cyclical it seems to me. We tend not to learn from the past. We reject it first. Embrace it later and think it is fresh and new again.

Now how will this affect activists movements? That remains to be seen. I don't think humans will ever throw off completely the chains of ignorance, bigotry, discrimination, racism, and us versus them ideations. There will always be something for activists to rally against with or without religious institutions as the support mechanism. Though I do not know if OWS made near the same impact as the religious support in the 1960's did for civil rights, so perhaps it will ebb and flow. Humans love to organize into social groups so with or without belief, we will do it anyway.