Watching Religion Die
Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book.
Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing It and What Comes Next, by University of Michigan scholar Ronald Inglehart, is to be released in January by Oxford University Press. Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine – in an advance summary titled “Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion” – Dr. Inglehart said:
“The most dramatic shift away from religion has taken place among the American public. From 1981 to 2007, the United States ranked as one of the world’s more religious countries, with religiosity levels changing very little. Since then, the United States has shown the largest move away from religion of any country for which we have data.”
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Adding that to my to-read list. I like that the subtitle includes “and what comes next.” One would hope people would become more reasonable after leaving religion. But I’ve seen too many examples of people leaving religion just to fling themselves into some other unhealthy form of tribalism.
kdmom
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Sep 19, 2020
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Americans have become lazy and don't like being told what to do, hence less people going to churches. Problem is they still believe in stupid shit.
Michael0987654
Level 5
Sep 16, 2020
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They always will.......once brainwashed it’s hard t break out of it.
The West coast is on fire, the gulf coast is flooding, our president is trying to force kids back into public schools during a pandemic.
This is the kind of world prayers has built.
Every management decision was in direct contradiction to all sound scientific recommendations and all known facts.
The fundamentalist Christian party, aka the Conservative party, aka the incompetence party, aka the Racist fascism party, aka the Republicans live in a fake world of imagination that seems impervious to all demonstrable truth and common sense.
Conservatives had just as wells call themselves Confederates as far as I'm concerned, praying for Jesus too come back as the world burns is no plan.
Willow_Wisp
Level 8
Sep 16, 2020
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You put it so well
They live in Opposite World, and it is frightening. Every week I encounter patients who are happy to inform me they can't stand liberals, that liberals are destroying the country, are even responsible for current wildfires and for blocking faster recovery from the pandemic, which, in another breath, they may deny even exists. It is stunning. And they are serious about their delusions.
Not only prayers, also ignorance.
Thanks, I keep wondering what consequences it would have in the real estate market, and in day to day American life on the social gathering side of things, if all the churches and other places of worship either come up for sale by their owners, or are re-tasked in some way.
kmaz
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Sep 16, 2020
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