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"After decades of men leading the way in becoming “nones,” or religiously unaffiliated, young women are now taking up that charge. In PRRI’s data, nonreligious Gen Z women outnumber nonreligious Gen Z men, 39% to 31%; in Barna’s, it’s 38% to 32%; and in a study from the Survey Center on American Life, it’s 39% to 34%."

~ Jana Riess

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in reply to William Lindsey :toad:

PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman "says that in addition to the classic reasons why Gen Zers are dropping out of religion (e.g., that they stopped believing), there’s a political element at work as well. More than 60% of young adults who had left organized religion said they did so in part because of its poor treatment of LGBTQ individuals."

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in reply to William Lindsey :toad:

"'For a lot of Gen Z women, the current intermingling of religion and politics on the political right is very unappealing because they’re more progressive on many issues, including support for LGBTQ rights and abortion rights,' Deckman said. 'I think many young women see the church or organized religion as being — if not hostile, then certainly not supportive of their political values.'”

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in reply to William Lindsey :toad:

I left religion at the age of 15 over pretty much the same issues--60 years ago. Religion has only gotten worse in the intervening decades.
in reply to Cookiefiend

@LPerry2 I agree that it's gotten more and more weaponized, though my recollection of having grown up Southern Baptist in the 1950s and 1960s is that it and other right-wing white evangelical churches were very weaponized back then, too, but about different issues. They seem always to need an enemy.