Belief In God Plummets Among Youth

[dmallind]

2. I've stopped celebrating such results

For decades the demographics of belief have been taunting rationalists with the idea that time alone will stop the stranglehold of faith-based superstition on the US body politic as younger less religious folk take over. It hasn't. It won't now either - not for much mich longer than we would think, and only if it continues. I mean centuries not decades.

Why? Because it's not that the 95% religious 70+ generation will eventually be replaced 1 for 1 with the 78% religious <30 generation in 50 years. That <30 generation will become more like the 70+ generation as they age - in many ways. They'll become more conservative as younger folks annoy them and as technology and culture leaves them in the past. They'll become more concerned with stability rather than progress as they near and entire retirement. And yes they'll become more religious as they experience mortality in others and look more closely at their own; as the remorseless unceasing indoctrinating and normalizing beast of Christianity keeps squeezing and squeezing until it finds a way inside most of them. They'll end up, if we are lucky, as a 93% religious 70+ generation.

Don't believe me? The first great wave of original hippies IS now that 70+ generation. How much of that anti-establishment, freethinking "it's all God, we're all God, man" do you see in the vast majority of them now?