While the number of Americans who celebrate Christmas as a cultural holiday is going strong, there has been a shocking rise in the number of people ditching Christianity — what sociologists call “nonverts.”
Pew Research Center estimates that Christians will be a minority of Americans by 2070 if current trends continue.
And it likely will, with the largest percentage of those losing their religion being young adults who are about as old as that REM reference: people around 30 and under.
It’s a kind of “cultural whiplash” from religion to secularism that’s hit the United States much faster than it has other parts of the world, said theology and sociology professor Stephen Bullivant.
Bullivant, a practicing Catholic who teaches at St. Mary’s University in London and the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, spoke to Grid about why Americans are leaving Christianity in droves and the demographics that are seeing the (ahem) ungodliest declines. His new book, “Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America,” came out in the U.S. on Dec. 1.
Young adults are leading the mass exodus
Bullivant made […]
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Stephan, this article supports only the fact that people are leaving religion; it doesn’t at all support your assumption as to why they are leaving. You think it is because of the politics of what you insist on calling christofascism. This article ascribes different reasons, in particular the bursting of local “bubbles” by the advent of the internet. That doesn’t mean you are wrong or right; it does mean you are reading your reasons into what is not actually stated.
Frank —
Go to the SR archive, and search on “Christianity” You will find a large number of articles I have published on this topic and why it is happening, and it will help you understand why I said what I did.