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Yasir Qadhi

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - The New Secular Liberal Religion

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Now we're all aware that the current religious trends of the Western world is that across every single denomination without

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exception there has been a decrease in church attendance, mosque

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attendance and in attendance in all organized religion.

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And every single faith tradition is dealing with its own crises.

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We are not immune from the problems happening in the broader society.

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And what we discover is that many of the millennial generation

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are affiliating with no organized religion and also not quite

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embracing atheism. The term that has been given in some academic literature is

0:51.3

the nuns, not the NUN nun,N-N-N-N-N-N-E, the nuns, those that have nothing, NO-N-N-E.

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And if you look at statistics, this is a Gallup survey, one of the most comprehensive surveys done about religiosity.

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I want you to take a look at this statistic over here.

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In the year 2019, so this is like two, three years old now, almost 40% of those of the millennials said

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that they don't identify with any religion.

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One third, more than one third, almost a half and within five

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ten years it will be more than a half. By the way this is in America in Nordic

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countries in Sweden for example

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upwards of 70 or 80% of the population

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says that they don't identify with any faith tradition.

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Obviously the elders they still do, you can tell if you're above 70 years old, then yes,

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there's still religion.

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But this is the generation, as we all understand, that's going to grow up to be these people

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