Ryan Burge: 5 Religion Graphs w/ a side of Hot Takes

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Back by popular request is Dr. Ryan Burge! When he was last here, we discussed some myths about Religion and Politics. Â Today he returns to the podcast and brings 5 graphs of religion data and we proceed to explore them and generate hot takes about them. To see the graphs themselves, you can watch the video below or go check them out on his super graph heavy twitter. Here’s how wild public opinion is — Among people who want a total ban on abortion (which is about 20% of the population): 67% of them would support a proposal to make college debt free! 77% favor paid maternity leave! pic.twitter.com/zGJe1iGCgy â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) August 26, 2022 How much does religion impact fertility? A lot. About 75% of 40-year-old Mormons have kids. It’s 40% of atheists or agnostics. A majority of atheist/agnostics never have children. pic.twitter.com/imliUawHx5 â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) August 24, 2022 Politically liberal Christians engage in less religious activity than politically conservative ones. This is percent praying weekly. Among just Protestants and Catholics. ~82% of Conservatives pray weekly or more. It’s ~70% of Liberals. pic.twitter.com/wrkmRLIiUd â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) August 22, 2022 Here’s how I know. In 2021, the GSS asked people to self ID as atheist or agnostic. Guess what? 35% who say that they don’t believe in God don’t ID as atheist. And for those who express an agnostic belief only 37% identify as agnostic! Belief ? belonging! pic.twitter.com/hyFsW7gIOa â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) August 8, 2022 Young women are more likely to be nones than young men in 2021. That wasn’t the case in 2008. In 2008, men born in 1980 were just as likely to be nones as those born in 1990. Now, men born in 2000 are a bit *less* likely to be nones than those born in 1990. https://t.co/3NOMqZH4cx pic.twitter.com/rMMOvqH0ZU â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) July 22, 2022 Ryan P. Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Author of numerous journal articles, he is the co-founder of and a frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a forum for scholars of religion and politics to make their work accessible to a general audience. Burge is a pastor in the American Baptist Church. Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah, what is up theology nerds? This is Tripp. And today on Homebrewed Christianity,
0:13.5	returning to the podcast is Ryan Birch. That's right, sociologist of religion. And a man who makes lots of graphs about religion oh yeah and he
0:24.6	tweets them which you should definitely go follow him at ryan burge on the tweeter and look we we were
0:29.9	talking back and forth in a little DM exchange and i said hey you want to try something fun um what if
0:36.6	you picked any five of your graphs about religion,
0:41.2	you send them to me, and I'm just going to plug them in on a little PowerPoint,
0:45.7	and then we will go through them and come up with hot takes about said graphs about religion.
0:52.2	And that's what we did. I think we both had a lot of fun.
0:54.5	If you have some fun, some measure of fun, then we'll probably do it again. But look, I've just
1:02.0	got to give you a warning, a warning. These are hot takes. And you know what that means.
1:07.3	I mean, it means they're hot. And Ryan was good at it. He was pressing on a number of, it's like if he said
1:15.3	something he knew I was uncomfortable with, he kept reiterating it with the smirk on his face. And that,
1:20.6	that, my friends, is an invitation to go to the post where you're hearing this, this particular
1:26.9	podcast. You go there. You'll also see
1:29.6	the video. You'll see the video. And on the video, as you go through, you can actually look and
1:34.2	see the, uh, the graphs. We put them there in the video and you can see our heads and watch
1:39.4	me squirm as Ryan makes hot takes about, uh, the need for more parents, like people having children
1:48.7	and not delaying. Anyway, we have a ton of fun. Check it out. Go to the page. You can find the video,
1:54.7	or you could follow the Homebrewed Christianity YouTube channel where there's more and more
2:00.1	content showing up there because
2:01.6	according to Elgin the 14 year old that is where people find podcast these days and I'm
2:06.5	like why then they have to see me then they'll see my face being awkward is Ryan presses
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