Bye, bye Democrats. Athiests are not as likely to have kids and are into YOLO (you only live once). This bodes ill for the long range plans and continuity of the organization.
There are some serious problems with this.
To start with, many Americans became “nonreligious”, *not* because they wanted to leave their church, but because “their church left them.”
Right now several large denominations are effectively having schisms, in which liberals have taken over the leadership, so the conservative rank and file are “voting with their feet.”
So, while numerically smaller, these new conservative churches are rapidly becoming the “real religions” of America, as the liberal churches fade away.
And for a time, it will appear in the statistics that atheists are having a big upswing. But just because someone is not attending church does not mean they are an atheist.
But it likely does mean that when they start going back to church, it will not be to a liberal church.