Belief In God Plummets Among Youth

[citysyde]

7. Well your points are well taken!

It's a pleasure to talk to you and see your perspective.

But the original WW II baby boomers like me are different than, for instance, my parents.

Father died at 65 after 3 heart attacks and no modern statins or other drugs to keep his BP and Cholesterol low. Mother died at 75 from a life of smoking, giving it up at 70, and getting medically maltreated by a new doctor in hospital when all she had was phlebitis.

Oh, and they both died in community hospitals that were "charity" or largely charity supported facilities. Nowadays, even Catholic hospitals are "for profit" or part of a "for profit" network in my state.

My point: we WW II baby boomer old fogies are going to live into our 80's and 90's in much larger numbers than our parents did. We are going to get humane treatment in medical care, but that care will cost ten times what it did when my parents were alive. My father, a day in the hospital before his death, in an ICU, $200., but that was the 60's, the great and glorious hippy 60's.

Getting far afield of young people giving up on god beliefs, but I think the older folks, many of them still believers, almost all of them voters, they will stick around a while, but the young guns? Fewer and fewer of them will want to get into the religion thing, as they see that it makes not a bit of difference in terms of morality, in terms of caring for the poor, in terms of delivery of medical care to the aged, religious institutions just get in the way, they no longer deliver anything of value to a young person's society. That's my point.