Number who identify as Christian has declined from 64% to 62% since 2020 and most other indications of religiousness has held largely steady. Despite a widespread push by those on the right that religion is making a comeback, it doesn’t show up in the data.
hairaccount0 on
Very fitting, since “all hype no data” is pretty much how religion works anyway
Worth-Jicama3936 on
Who are the 10% that consistently say religion is very important to them but also admit to not even making it to church once a month? They can’t even be normal hypocrites and lie?
Some-Rice4196 on
Not surprising, on tech twitter it’s as popular to say “I’ve read the bible front to back” as it used to be “I’ve read CLRS front to back”.
But no one actually read CLRS
JeromesNiece on
I remember a few months ago when the headline of [an article posted here](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/sPEZQ3e6kY) claimed that young men were leading a religious revival, but the claim in the body of the article was that “young people are not that much less religious than their parents.” I.e., the second derivative of religious observance had increased, not religious observance itself.
WinonasChainsaw on
I think the recent south park episodes about trendy anti-woke christianity really hit the nail square on
It’s just a vocal minority of attention starved wanna be influencers with contradictory morals
erasmus_phillo on
I think these numbers are likely masking the fact that there probably has been a rise in the number of people following more extremist interpretations of the Christian faith, along with a fairly steep decline of people following more moderate, mainline Christian sects. This phenomenon is actually worse than a religious revival imo
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Number who identify as Christian has declined from 64% to 62% since 2020 and most other indications of religiousness has held largely steady. Despite a widespread push by those on the right that religion is making a comeback, it doesn’t show up in the data.
Very fitting, since “all hype no data” is pretty much how religion works anyway
Who are the 10% that consistently say religion is very important to them but also admit to not even making it to church once a month? They can’t even be normal hypocrites and lie?
Not surprising, on tech twitter it’s as popular to say “I’ve read the bible front to back” as it used to be “I’ve read CLRS front to back”.
But no one actually read CLRS
I remember a few months ago when the headline of [an article posted here](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/sPEZQ3e6kY) claimed that young men were leading a religious revival, but the claim in the body of the article was that “young people are not that much less religious than their parents.” I.e., the second derivative of religious observance had increased, not religious observance itself.
I think the recent south park episodes about trendy anti-woke christianity really hit the nail square on
It’s just a vocal minority of attention starved wanna be influencers with contradictory morals
I think these numbers are likely masking the fact that there probably has been a rise in the number of people following more extremist interpretations of the Christian faith, along with a fairly steep decline of people following more moderate, mainline Christian sects. This phenomenon is actually worse than a religious revival imo