32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated today.
The growth in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans - sometimes called the rise of the "nones" -- is largely driven by generational replacement, the gradual supplanting of older generations by newer ones. A third (32%) of adults under 30 have no religious affiliation, compared with just one-in-ten who are 65 and older (9%).
Young adults today are much more likely to be unaffiliated than previous generations were at a similar stage in their lives. These generational differences are consistent with other signs of a gradual softening of religious commitment among some (though by no means all) Americans in recent decades.
Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the last 10 years, for example, find modest growth in the number of people who say they seldom or never attend religious services, as well as a declining number who say they never doubt the existence of God. Read more
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:31:48 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
>32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
Blame their parents.
>The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion >continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public >- and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated >today.
Catholic schools are flourishing, and so will the young adults.
The dukester, American - American
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"Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
> today.
> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>> today.
> So what?
Your religion is dying, get used to it.
State of Christian churches: Where are the young people? 07 DECEMBER 2011
In a Sept. 28 article published by the Barna Group, “Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church,” Barna, a nationally respected non-profit research organization dedicated to spiritual development, outlines six reasons why young people stay away from churches:
• Churches seem overprotective: While many churches try to convince members to reject or avoid “worldly” influences, today’s young people are more connected to culture, media and concerns of the world than ever.
• Their experience of Christianity is shallow: Young people respond in surveys that they find church “boring,” “not relevant to career or interests” and “God seems missing from my experience of church.”
• Churches seem antagonistic to science: In general, churches they perceive as opposed to science and reason turn off young people.
• What churches teach about sexuality is all too often simplistic and judgmental: Research suggests that self-
identified Christian young people are as sexually active as non-Christians. They find that what many churches preach regarding this important aspect of life is based on fear and prejudice.
• Young people reject the exclusive nature of Christianity: Whether it is the homogeneity of a congregation’s ethnicity and social class or the doctrines of exclusive salvation offered by certain churches, today’s young person values tolerance, open-mindedness and acceptance more than ever.
• Churches don’t encourage or allow doubts: At a time in personal development when young people question everything, churches that “have all the answers” are often described as trivial and intolerant.
In the Barna survey, 36 percent of respondents suggested that they are not able to “ask my most pressing life questions in church.”
To put it bluntly, more and more North Americans don’t find religious institutional life relevant to their spirituality. That’s across the board: liberal, conservative, progressive, evangelical and orthodox.
Seminaries of all persuasions have recorded successive years of decline in their enrollments. One could conclude that it’s not that North Americans aren’t spiritual, it’s that they don’t find church life necessary for their spirituality.
duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:31:48 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
>>32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>Blame their parents.
For teaching them how to think. Yes. We know, cultist. We know. :)
"Patrick" <PBARKER...@r.com> wrote:
>"Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>> today.
>So what?
So your child raping pedophile death cult is dying off, ya fucking loon.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:32:11 -0400, Patrick wrote:
> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion The number
>> of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at
>> a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public - and a third of adults under
>> 30 - are religiously unaffiliated today.
> So what?
One of the newsgroups this tidbit is being cross-posted to is
"alt.atheism", where we try to figure out why it is that so many otherwise
sane, intelligent people believe a fairy tale that was started 4,000 years
ago, and anyone who has the courage to question it is ostracized by
society at large in the USA.
It is encouraging to see that sanity is starting to take root in the USA,
as it has already done in Europe. In another generation, many of those
who currently claim to have "no religious affiliation" will realize that
they don't really need to worry about whether a God exists or not. They
will become, at the very least, "apatheists".
-- MarkA
Keeper of Things Put There Only Just The Night Before
About eight o'clock
On Oct 19, 9:31 am, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
> today.
Ok, so they are not affiliated with any religion. Does that mean they
don't believe in
God?
Oh wait, that's a question and you don't like questions.
> The growth in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans
> - sometimes called the rise of the "nones" -- is largely driven
> by generational replacement, the gradual supplanting of older
> generations by newer ones. A third (32%) of adults under 30
> have no religious affiliation, compared with just one-in-ten
> who are 65 and older (9%).
And again, if you understood biblical prophecy, you would see why and
what
is happening.
> Young adults today are much more likely to be unaffiliated
> than previous generations were at a similar stage in their
> lives. These generational differences are consistent with
> other signs of a gradual softening of religious commitment
> among some (though by no means all) Americans in recent
> decades.
> Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the last 10 years,
> for example, find modest growth in the number of people who
> say they seldom or never attend religious services, as well
> as a declining number who say they never doubt the existence
> of God. Read more
> > "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
> >> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
> >> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
> >> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
> >> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
> >> today.
> > So what?
> Your religion is dying, get used to it.
Absolutely. And if you understood biblical prophecy...we welcome it.
> State of Christian churches: Where are the young people?
> 07 DECEMBER 2011
> In a Sept. 28 article published by the Barna Group,
> Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church, Barna, a
> nationally respected non-profit research organization
> dedicated to spiritual development, outlines six reasons
> why young people stay away from churches:
> Churches seem overprotective: While many churches try
> to convince members to reject or avoid worldly influences,
> today s young people are more connected to culture, media
> and concerns of the world than ever.
> Their experience of Christianity is shallow: Young
> people respond in surveys that they find church boring,
> not relevant to career or interests and God seems
> missing from my experience of church.
> Churches seem antagonistic to science: In general,
> churches they perceive as opposed to science and reason
> turn off young people.
> What churches teach about sexuality is all too often
> simplistic and judgmental: Research suggests that self-
> identified Christian young people are as sexually active
> as non-Christians. They find that what many churches
> preach regarding this important aspect of life is based
> on fear and prejudice.
> Young people reject the exclusive nature of Christianity:
> Whether it is the homogeneity of a congregation s ethnicity
> and social class or the doctrines of exclusive salvation
> offered by certain churches, today s young person values
> tolerance, open-mindedness and acceptance more than ever.
> Churches don t encourage or allow doubts: At a time in
> personal development when young people question everything,
> churches that have all the answers are often described
> as trivial and intolerant.
> In the Barna survey, 36 percent of respondents suggested
> that they are not able to ask my most pressing life
> questions in church.
> To put it bluntly, more and more North Americans don t
> find religious institutional life relevant to their
> spirituality. That s across the board: liberal, conservative,
> progressive, evangelical and orthodox.
> Seminaries of all persuasions have recorded successive
> years of decline in their enrollments. One could conclude
> that it s not that North Americans aren t spiritual, it s
> that they don t find church life necessary for their
> spirituality.
On Oct 19, 3:46 pm, repo...@scientology.org (Fred^4) wrote:
> "Patrick" <PBARKER...@r.com> wrote:
> >"Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
> >> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
> >> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
> >> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
> >> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
> >> today.
> >So what?
> So your child raping pedophile death cult is dying off, ya fucking loon.
What kind of a lefty loon are you?
Are you trying to associate anyone affiliated to religion with
pedophiles??
In article <m3v288ld3485ouds7blji88lhejllus...@4ax.com>,
duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:31:48 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
> >32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
> Blame their parents.
Why?
> >The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion > >continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public > >- and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated > >today.
> Catholic schools are flourishing, and so will the young adults.
Denial is a serious problem with you, isn't it?
-- JD
"Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive."--VP Joseph Biden
>> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>>> today.
>> So what?
> Your religion is dying, get used to it.
> State of Christian churches: Where are the young people?
> 07 DECEMBER 2011
And yet, we keep building bigger and better churches.
We just purchased the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County.
> "Patrick" <PBARKER...@r.com> wrote:
>>"Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>>> today.
>>So what?
> So your child raping pedophile death cult is dying off, ya fucking loon.
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:32:11 -0400, Patrick wrote:
>> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion The number
>>> of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at
>>> a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public - and a third of adults under
>>> 30 - are religiously unaffiliated today.
>> So what?
> One of the newsgroups this tidbit is being cross-posted to is
> "alt.atheism", where we try to figure out why it is that so many otherwise
> sane, intelligent people believe a fairy tale that was started 4,000 years
> ago, and anyone who has the courage to question it is ostracized by
> society at large in the USA.
> It is encouraging to see that sanity is starting to take root in the USA,
> as it has already done in Europe. In another generation, many of those
> who currently claim to have "no religious affiliation" will realize that
> they don't really need to worry about whether a God exists or not. They
> will become, at the very least, "apatheists".
> And yet, we keep building bigger and better churches.
> We just purchased the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County.
"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." -- Jesus
-- Teddy Roosevelt - Square Deal
Franklin Roosevelt - New Deal
Harry Truman - Fair Deal
Bill Clinton - Meal Deal
Barack Obama - Raw Deal
>Absolutely. And if you understood biblical prophecy...we welcome it.
Yes. It's wonderful isn't it. Please tell all about how wonderful
your superstition describes the glorious event of when everyone dies a
tortured painful death. Especially how it's better to be dead than
alive.
Christianity, the religion of love.
Islam, the religion of peace.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:38:03 -0700 (PDT), Dino <whate...@homemail.com>
wrote:
>On Oct 19, 9:31 am, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>> today.
>Ok, so they are not affiliated with any religion. Does that mean they
>don't believe in
>God?
No.
But, they almost certainly don't believe in the superstitions,
proscription or taboos associated with any of the major religions.
That's good enough in my book.
When rightards like you talk about Biblical prophesy and how the end
times will be a third world war started by Muslims, they roll their
eyes.
When rightards cite the Bible to prove "God Hates Fags", they roll
their eyes.
When you rightards cite the Bible to show how our society should be
structured and what laws should be passed, they roll their eyes.
When you rightards point to rainbows as proof that we don't need to
worry about climate change, they roll their eyes.
That's called "progress", in my book.
You rightards think we progressives are against the idea of God.
We're not.
We're against structuring our society based on a bronze age goat
herder's interpretation of God and what he thought God wanted.
Once that's out of the equation, I don't give a damn what you
rightards believe, because what you rightards believe won't effect me
in the least.
Heh heh...
Lying racist rightard socialists...
Batshit crazy and dogshit stupid, every single last one of you.
>Oh wait, that's a question and you don't like questions.
>> The growth in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans
>> - sometimes called the rise of the "nones" -- is largely driven
>> by generational replacement, the gradual supplanting of older
>> generations by newer ones. A third (32%) of adults under 30
>> have no religious affiliation, compared with just one-in-ten
>> who are 65 and older (9%).
>And again, if you understood biblical prophecy, you would see why and
>what
>is happening.
>> Young adults today are much more likely to be unaffiliated
>> than previous generations were at a similar stage in their
>> lives. These generational differences are consistent with
>> other signs of a gradual softening of religious commitment
>> among some (though by no means all) Americans in recent
>> decades.
>> Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the last 10 years,
>> for example, find modest growth in the number of people who
>> say they seldom or never attend religious services, as well
>> as a declining number who say they never doubt the existence
>> of God. Read more
>>> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>>>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>>>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>>>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>>>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>>>> today.
>>> So what?
>> Your religion is dying, get used to it.
>> State of Christian churches: Where are the young people?
>> 07 DECEMBER 2011
> And yet, we keep building bigger and better churches.
> >> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
> >>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion The number
> >>> of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at
> >>> a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public - and a third of adults under
> >>> 30 - are religiously unaffiliated today.
> >> So what?
> > One of the newsgroups this tidbit is being cross-posted to is
> > "alt.atheism", where we try to figure out why it is that so many otherwise
> > sane, intelligent people believe a fairy tale that was started 4,000 years
> > ago, and anyone who has the courage to question it is ostracized by
> > society at large in the USA.
> > It is encouraging to see that sanity is starting to take root in the USA,
> > as it has already done in Europe. In another generation, many of those
> > who currently claim to have "no religious affiliation" will realize that
> > they don't really need to worry about whether a God exists or not. They
> > will become, at the very least, "apatheists".
> I don't care.
> I've got mine.
What you have is only faith in myth, but without the support of any objective physical evidence at all.
-- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less
remote from the- truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
On Friday, October 19, 2012 12:15:50 PM UTC-4, duke wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:31:48 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
> >32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
> Blame their parents.
> >The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion > >continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public > >- and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated > >today.
> Catholic schools are flourishing, and so will the young adults.
Catholic schools are either combining or closing down
all over the United States. Lying about it won't help you, Earl.
>>> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>>>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion The
>>>> number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to
>>>> grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public - and a third of
>>>> adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated today.
>>> So what?
>> One of the newsgroups this tidbit is being cross-posted to is
>> "alt.atheism", where we try to figure out why it is that so many
>> otherwise sane, intelligent people believe a fairy tale that was started
>> 4,000 years ago, and anyone who has the courage to question it is
>> ostracized by society at large in the USA.
>> It is encouraging to see that sanity is starting to take root in the
>> USA, as it has already done in Europe. In another generation, many of
>> those who currently claim to have "no religious affiliation" will
>> realize that they don't really need to worry about whether a God exists
>> or not. They will become, at the very least, "apatheists".
> I don't care.
> I've got mine.
Good for you. Now, let others get theirs, OK? It won't cost you anything.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:45:47 GMT, repo...@scientology.org (Fred^4) wrote:
>duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
>>On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:31:48 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
>>>32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>>Blame their parents.
>For teaching them how to think. Yes. We know, cultist. We know. :)
Yes, and when they reach young adult status, they really understand because they
now think.
The dukester, American - American
********************************************
A vote for obama is a vote for the end of
democracy in America as we know it. Let the
rolling thunder guide your decision at the
ballot box to put an end to Imperial Obama.
May God bless America.
********************************************
>In article <m3v288ld3485ouds7blji88lhejllus...@4ax.com>,
> duke <duckgumb...@cox.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:31:48 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
>> >32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>> Blame their parents.
>Why?
>> >The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion >> >continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public >> >- and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated >> >today.
>> Catholic schools are flourishing, and so will the young adults.
>Denial is a serious problem with you, isn't it?
There is no Catholic school called "denial". I have the facts and you have
nothing.
The dukester, American - American
********************************************
A vote for obama is a vote for the end of
democracy in America as we know it. Let the
rolling thunder guide your decision at the
ballot box to put an end to Imperial Obama.
May God bless America.
********************************************
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:15:17 -0500, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
>"Patrick" <PBARKER...@r.com> wrote in news:fgfgs.291$wO6.156@fe07.iad:
>> "Mitchell Holman" <nomailcomcast.net> wrote in message
>>> 32% - A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
>>> The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion
>>> continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public
>>> - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated
>>> today.
>> So what?
> Your religion is dying, get used to it.
Haahaahaa. No way. It's grown 10% in the last 10 years.
>State of Christian churches: Where are the young people? >07 DECEMBER 2011
>In a Sept. 28 article published by the Barna Group, >“Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church,” Barna, a >nationally respected non-profit research organization >dedicated to spiritual development, outlines six reasons >why young people stay away from churches:
>• Churches seem overprotective: While many churches try >to convince members to reject or avoid “worldly” influences, >today’s young people are more connected to culture, media >and concerns of the world than ever.
>• Their experience of Christianity is shallow:
Attending a non-Catholic church does that to you. Catholic Churches are
flourishing in the US.
> Young >people respond in surveys that they find church “boring,” >“not relevant to career or interests” and “God seems >missing from my experience of church.”
No kidding. That's not the Church's job. That belongs to mom and pop. The job
of the Church is to give guidance to our spiritual lives.
>• Churches seem antagonistic to science: In general, >churches they perceive as opposed to science and reason >turn off young people.
One day science will prove the existence of God.
>• What churches teach about sexuality is all too often >simplistic and judgmental: Research suggests that self-
>identified Christian young people are as sexually active >as non-Christians. They find that what many churches >preach regarding this important aspect of life is based >on fear and prejudice.
>• Young people reject the exclusive nature of Christianity:
Some even reject their own sex.
The dukester, American - American
********************************************
A vote for obama is a vote for the end of
democracy in America as we know it. Let the
rolling thunder guide your decision at the
ballot box to put an end to Imperial Obama.
May God bless America.
********************************************
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:26:02 -0700, linuxgal <linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>Patrick wrote:
>> And yet, we keep building bigger and better churches.
>> We just purchased the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County.
>"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad >their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love >the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, >and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." -- >Jesus
That's Jesus telling the Jews they're going the wrong way. Can't you read.
The dukester, American - American
********************************************
A vote for obama is a vote for the end of
democracy in America as we know it. Let the
rolling thunder guide your decision at the
ballot box to put an end to Imperial Obama.
May God bless America.
********************************************
