My guess — based partly on what I see around where I live, anectodally, is that Southern Baptist youth are going nondenominational.... A lot of the nondenom movement that I see — and again, I’m going only anecdotally, so I could totally be wrong — is rebranded Baptist.
I am a member of a large Non-denom church that is led by a former Baptist pastor. If you looked at the practices of this church you would say it's Baptist.
That's my guess as well.
Isn't there some self-satisfied video about not being "Christian" but rather a "Christ-follower"? Perhaps there's a quirky movement to not identify oneself as Christian, but still believe in the Bible and prayer:
Even among the unaffiliated (~25% of Americans), it turns out many of them are religious.Some of these respondents are just saying what the pollster wants to hear, but I'd wager a lot are into DIY Christianity - which can be spiritually perilous, but probably better than nothing.Thought they rarely attend religious services, more than half (56 percent) of them believe in God and another 22 percent believe in a higher power. Fifty-five percent believe that the Bible is either the literal or inspired Word of God and 49 percent pray daily or weekly.
This phenomenon also slightly skews the poll numbers towards secularism and a post-Christian America, giving ammo to the wrong people.