Opinion: Organized religion is losing its followers
Pope Francis visits a center for Alzheimer's disease patients in Rome on April 12. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 15 at 11:30 AM CNN reports, “For the first time ‘No Religion’ has topped a survey of Americans’ religious identity, according to a new analysis by a political scientist. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey.
Collectively, those who identify with some religion still greatly outnumber those with no religion. But the numbers do put into perspective how many Americans find no home in organized religion. The survey is consistent with other studies, including Robert P. Jones’s work. In “The End of White Christian America,” he documents the turning point at which white Protestants of all denominations could no longer claim a majority of Americans. He posits that this phenomenon is at least partially responsible or the rise in white resentment of urbanites — the feeling of loss of social and cultural primacy — that President Trump so adeptly manipulated.
One might conclude that faith leaders who have morphed into political lobbyists, cultural warriors and partisan cheerleaders have neglected their core role. To the extent younger generations are more progressive politically, they may now look upon religious sects as akin to political parties or political action committees, with which they choose not to affiliate.
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