Why the secular movement is here to stay

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2. Well, I think you may be wrong on number one.

All studies I have seen recently indicate that the largest increasing demographic in the country are the non-churched, those who either do not attend, or do not believe. (When it is self-report data it is difficult to discern the difference.)

I could site specifics here but that is difficult on limited bandwidth. But both Barna and Pew have published data indicating such. Both of these organizations are funded by religion, so the only dog in their hunt would want the counter result.

Critically, the demographic with the highest percentage of those leaving religion is the young people and, notably, the fundamentalist sects figure most prominently in that demographic.

I heard about these trends on the Reasonable Doubts podcast, one of the best of the best on these topics.

They have much more data at their fingertips, and a PhD psychologist who researches such things as a regular.