Is the Rise of Religious "Nones" Over?
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
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Trends show less waffling, more commitment to faith.
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| 0:00.0 | With a |
| 0:04.1 | point look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. Since 2008, those who mark none in the religious |
| 0:07.1 | affiliation category have been the fastest-growing religious group in America. |
| 0:10.5 | However, new analysis from Professor Ryan Berg suggests that these numbers have perhaps |
| 0:15.6 | stabilized maybe even dropped in the last few years. Data from Pugh found that the 2023 percentage |
| 0:20.8 | of Americans who claim to be quote unquote nuns is now back to the |
| 0:24.3 | 20 levels or 28 percent. Of the many causes for the shift Birch thinks that the rise |
| 0:29.2 | in nuns was most likely due to the marginally religious switching to no affiliation at all. |
| 0:34.1 | And I quote, eventually there weren't that many marginally attached folks anymore. |
| 0:38.4 | All you had left with a very committed religious folks who likely won't become nuns for any reason. The loose topsoils been |
| 0:44.4 | scooped off and hauled away, leaving nothing but hard bedrock underneath. Well, whatever the cause, |
| 0:49.4 | this is another sign that secularism seems to be running out of gas and that only the most deeply |
| 0:54.1 | committed believers will be sticking with a church. I'm John Stone Street. |
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