Posted on 06/18/2018 10:31:54 AM PDT by Simon Green
For some time now, surveys have shown that younger Americans are less likely than older adults to attend church, believe in God, or say religion is important to them. Such a religion age gap doesn’t exist in every country, but a new Pew Research Center study shows that it is far from unique to the United States.
In fact, in 46 countries around the world, adults under age 40 are less likely to say religion is “very important” in their lives than are older adults; the opposite is true in only two countries. In 58 countries, there are no significant age gaps on this question, according to surveys conducted in more than 100 nations.
While the size of the age gap varies from country to country, averaging the national results in each of the countries surveyed yields a clear global picture: 51% of younger adults in the average country consider religion to be very important, compared with 57% among people ages 40 and older – a difference of 6 percentage points.
In the U.S., the age gap is considerable: 43% of people under age 40 say religion is very important to them, compared with 60% of adults ages 40 and over. Age gaps also are especially common in Latin America, with gaps appearing in 14 out of 19 countries. In the average country in the region, 63% of young adults consider religion to be very important, compared with 73% of their elders.
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I think this is changing...especially with the youngest.
The middle-aged/baby boomers/and latter half of millennial generation are the ones most in a muddle.
In other news water is wet and liberals order ridiculous coffee.
Oh wait, I got that backwards. Yeah, old ladies were always WAY more religious than anyone else.
LoL that’s true too.
Senator Moynihan warned us against the long-term effects of ‘defining deviancy down’.
People didn’t want to hear it...
For decades, going back 30-40 years, sports for children has taken away kids from church.
How just schedule the sporting events on Sunday to take children and their parents from Church.
Travel baseball from spring to fall. Football from Sep to Thanksgiving. Soccer, water polo and other sports often are year round, including Sundays.
This is not just public schools doing this. Catholic and other church schools are sponsoring Sunday games/events.
Is this accidental scheduling?
We don’t think so.
It’s because they are arrogant in their self-sufficiency. They don’t think they have anything to learn.
Twelve years of being in State Indoctrination Education Factories is having an effect?
And a lifetime of movies from the likes of Harvey Weinsteing, Rob Reiner, and Roman Polanski? News from NBC, NPR, and the New York Times? Gosh, how could this be happening to our young?
It’s obviously because they have faced few hardships in life, and when they have encountered obstacles of their own making, their parents have made excuses for their failings.
The start of the great falling away. 2 Thess 2.
And we wonder why our problems are so serious and America haters seem to win most of the battles.
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