Teens are fleeing religion like never before: Massive new study exposes religion’s decline

[Mowgli]

Even if that were true, worshiping an elephant > worshiping a cac. Elephants are more civilized.

You dont know what you're saying. Desperate after a string of demoralizing experiences at my hands.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Religious people should be culled.

 

[the cac mamba]

Imagine in today's age if man said a burning bush talked to him.

dude would be getting roasted on twitter n shyt

 

[Poitier]

It reflects in our art, movies, music, books, writing, politics and economy.

 

[The Real]

Your people worship an elephant. Seems like a bigger issue for you to be concerned with as an atheist.

At least it isn't a cac elephant brought to his people by Europeans, though.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

The study also notes an “increasing acknowledgment that religion is not consistent with scientific understanding” could be driving adolescents away from religion.

Each generation gets a little smarter

 

[Poitier]

Each generation gets a little smarter

So smart we loose more agency and let the 1% keep us occupied with BS

 

[tmonster]

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

I'm a firm believer in black jesus. The haters can fukk off.

 

[88m3]

I'm a firm believer in black jesus. The haters can fukk off.

 

[Truth200]

 

[CHL]

TYBG

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I'm a firm believer in black jesus. The haters can fukk off.

Lol...you're a firm believer in whatever you believe during that 6 month interval.

 

[CHL]

According to Twenge and her cohorts, today’s adolescents view religion as less important, report less “approval” of religious organizations, and spend less time on prayer than did their similarly-aged predecessors. Some 75 percent of American 12th graders, the paper finds, believe that religion is “not important at all” in their lives.

Twenge cites a surge of individualism as the force behind atheism’s relative appeal to a young, self-centric generation. She’s literally written the book on the subject: “Generation Me.” In it, Twenge provides academic rationale to support the allegation that children born in the 1980’s and 1990’s form an “Entitlement Generation,” which she describes as being “tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also disengaged, narcissistic, distrustful, and anxious.”

The generational decline of religion’s appeal in America has been documented in other studies as well, including one published last year by Massachusetts computer scientist Allen Downey. Downey’s conclusion as to why Americans are turning to atheism contrasts with Twenge’s, however. As noted by the MIT Technology review, Downey finds unprecedented access to information afforded by the Internet to be a major factor in determining a person’s inclination to embrace religion. The Internet, Downey argues, could be as significant a variable as childhood religious upbringing in influencing an individual’s spiritual outcomes.

This, the information age is more of a factor

 

[Poitier]

This, the information age is more of a factor

Nope or other social issues would not persist.

People accepting watered down frameworks based on post modernism and nihilism instead of agency and altruism.