The U.S. Is Retreating from Religion
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-u-s-is-retreating-from-religion/
...In the figure, the dark lines show the fraction of respondents in each group for each year of the survey until 2016. The shaded areas show predictions, based on a statistical model of the relationship between year of birth, age, and religion.
...We can get a better view of generational changes if we group people by their year of birth, which captures information about the environment they grew up in, including the probability that they were raised in a religious tradition and their likely exposure to people of other religions. The following figure shows the share of people in each religious group, for birth years from 1880 to 1995:
Interesting trends.
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"faith based on a series of beliefs but not formalized into a religion"
That's YOUR chosen definition for a belief system. We're gonna roll with it!
Your definition says that not every belief system is a religion (it's "NOT formalized into a religion" ), but every religion IS a belief system.
So you just confirmed you have been making a logical error this entire time. Every time someone criticizes religion, you leap in with your "but... but... patriotism" shtick.
But your chosen definition says that patriotism isn't formalized into a religion.
Religion IS formalized, and contains specific beliefs. Those specific beliefs are sometimes clearly harmful, and result in the harm done in the name of religion.
However, you can't complain that patriotism is just as bad, because nothing you identify as being part of patriotism is actually, FORMALLY, part of "patriotism" because it's not formalized. According to the definition that YOU provided.
Way to go, dude. You just humiliated yourself again. This is way too much fun.
... be more Nones than Protestants."
Worth repeating:
...and among the youngest adults, there may already be more Nones than Protestants."
