Skeptical Youth

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A November 2015 Pew Research Center survey revealed that the United States is becoming less religious overall, and "especially the youngest Millennials, who have entered adulthood since the first Landscape Study was conducted {a few months earlier} - are far less religious than their elders."

Admittedly, these "nones" aren't necessarily atheists, and many may consider themselves "spiritual" on some level. But what's driving this exodus from the formal structures of religion, and what do these young people think and say about the often hugely religious climate they see all around them.

This show focuses on youth, how they view the world, and how their exit from the church is impacting the United States and the world.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.5	So I was recently asked to read an audio book,
0:48.6	a sci-fi novel written by a guy named Lee Bervine.
0:53.7	Now I get a ton of requests to do a lot of wonderful stuff
0:56.2	and I'm so honored for those requests,
0:58.0	but it's hard to manage them.
0:59.6	I have to say no to most of them just for time reasons.
1:04.0	The fact that they're just not enough bandwidth to get it done.
1:07.5	So he sends me this manuscript and he said,
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