What Ever Happened to the 'Nones'?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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The landscape of unbelief in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Does the thought of voting stress you out, especially this year? Maybe the idea of political |
| 0:09.7 | engagement as a Christian even feels hopeless. You're not alone. You want wisdom, but the Bible |
| 0:15.2 | doesn't directly address voting, so what do you do? To help you find clarity, stability, |
| 0:20.3 | and wisdom for this year, we've put together a short four episode video series called |
| 0:24.8 | Why Vote, Courageous Faith in an election year. Each video answers a different |
| 0:30.0 | question about voting from a Christian perspective, including what if I don't like |
| 0:34.3 | either candidate, why vote if God is sovereign and more. You don't have to give in to our |
| 0:39.2 | culture's political anxiety. Clarity and hope is possible even in an election year. |
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. |
| 1:06.7 | For the Coulson Center, I'm Shane Morris. |
| 1:09.8 | Perhaps the biggest religious story of the 2010s was the so-called Great D. Churching, a historic shift in American beliefs and |
| 1:16.2 | lifestyles away from organized religion and toward, well, something else. |
| 1:20.8 | Between 2008 and 2018, the share of non-religious Americans surged from 21 to 32% of the population, |
| 1:28.9 | marking the largest and fastest religious shift since the Civil War. |
| 1:34.2 | This wasn't an explosion of atheism or agnosticism though. |
| 1:37.8 | The number who identifies either of those, roughly 12% of the population, |
| 1:42.4 | has barely budged in the last decade. |
| 1:45.0 | Instead, this exodus from churches marked the rise of the so-called nuns, |
| 1:50.0 | those who, when asked their religious identity on surveys, answer simply none. |
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