{"id":2078,"date":"2013-04-05T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T06:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:28:03","slug":"2012-pew-research-results-on-american-religious-affiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/04\/05\/2012-pew-research-results-on-american-religious-affiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Pew Research Results on American Religious Affiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">2012 Pew Research Results on American Religious Affiliation<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.good.is.s3.amazonaws.com\/transparency\/web\/1303\/contrary-to-popular-belief\/transparency.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/awesome.good.is.s3.amazonaws.com\/transparency\/web\/1303\/contrary-to-popular-belief\/transparency.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Pew Research Center has released the 2012 results further marking the rise of the non-affiliated (otherwise colloquially known as the \u201cnones\u201d; cf. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Unaffiliated\/nones-on-the-rise.aspx\">\u2019Nones\u2019 on the Rise<\/a>\u201d). Though there is a documented decline in religious affiliation here in the States, I am perturbed by how the U.S. lines up with other countries. For example, compared to Britain, France, Germany, and Spain, the U.S. has a substantially higher belief that God is necessary for morality (though, nowhere near as high as countries like Egypt and Jordan). (cf. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Being-Good-for-Goodness-Sake.aspx\">Being Good for Goodness Sake<\/a>\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/uploadedimages\/Topics\/Beliefs_and_Practices\/intl.gif\" alt=\"Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There is a noticeable increase of non-affiliation by what the Pew Research team refers to as the \u201cyounger Millennials\u201d (born 1990-1994).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Check out the results:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/uploadedImages\/Topics\/Religious_Affiliation\/Unaffiliated\/nones-exec-8.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They do a bit of speculation as to <em>why<\/em> the so-called \u201cyounger Millennials\u201d have so markedly identified themselves as non-affiliated. You can read those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Unaffiliated\/nones-on-the-rise-sidebar.aspx\">here<\/a>. I was a little disappointed that technology wasn\u2019t mentioned. These younger Millennials were born at the time the personal computer became nearly universally attainable by the working family\u2014and I swear some were born with 1<sup>st<\/sup> generation Game Boy\u2019s attached to their hips! They have had access to more information at an earlier age than could ever be said of earlier generations; more opinions, more opposing perspectives, and more means of evaluating all of the information. I haven\u2019t examined any research on this, but its seems prima facie plausible that such access to information has a greater secularizing effect than not. Especially imagine the situation with zealous evangelical parents who enforce their ideology. One has a better chance of breaking that mold with an outlet like the Internet which gives them access to a multitude of opinions and critiques, as opposed to lacking such an outlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There\u2019s much more that could be said, but I\u2019d rather let you see the research for yourself. I just wanted the opportunity to photo-bomb. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Pew Research Results on American Religious Affiliation The Pew Research Center has released the 2012 results further marking the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,6],"tags":[39,557,558,556],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-2","category-demographics-of-religion","tag-atheism","tag-nones","tag-pew-research","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}