New Pew Study shows declining religious membership among younger Americans

Pew has just released a new study showing that young Americans are less religiously active than their elders:

By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today. They also are less likely to be affiliated than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations were when they were young. Fully one-in-four members of the Millennial generation – so called because they were born after 1980 and began to come of age around the year 2000 – are unaffiliated with any particular faith.

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Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Zeke

    I've noticed this trend myself. Seems its cool to be atheist these days.

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    Michael

    This would be reassuring if the churches of fundamentalist whackjob haters were the ones being abandoned, but I suspect the real Christians, the ones who actually try to be better, are the ones whose ranks are shrinking.

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