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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Are Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right?"
Are Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right?By Amanda Marcotte at Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/22/religious_progressives_outnumber_religious_conservatives_ages_18_33_does.html
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According to the survey, 23 percent of people aged 18 to 33 are religious progressives, while 22 percent are nonreligious and 17 percent are religious conservatives. By contrast, only 12 percent of those aged 66 to 88 are religious progressives, whereas 47 percent are said to be religious conservatives.
This demographic shift might go a long way to explaining why anti-choice politicians have chosen now to be the time to drastically dial up the number of attacks on reproductive rights. Abortion has been legal for 40 years, and until recently, anti-choicers mostly chipped away at access quietly and without much notice from the press. Lately, however, anti-choicers have turned up the volume, attacking abortion accessand contraceptionwith a frenzy that seems as if they think this is the last chance they'll ever get. Numbers like the ones produced by this survey suggest that they aren't wrong to think they're running out of time.
I'm sure religious conservatives had a hunch that they were losing young people long before this polling data confirmed it, just by looking at the people sitting in their pews. Evangelical leaders have been fretting about this loss for a couple of years now, and it's an open secret that the youngest generation finds the reactionary politics and hostility toward science that marks religious conservatism to be repulsive. Some of the kids fleeing the flock just end up having no religious beliefs at all, but some clearly want to retain a connection to faith without having to sign off on the anti-feminism, homophobia, and creationism that comes with the more conservative churches.
While it's unwise to write off the possibility of yet another revival of conservative religious maniaconventional wisdom would say that the young progressives will get more conservative as they age, though that's not necessarily truefor the time being, the signs point to a simmering down of the religion wars in the U.S. Religious progressives are politically aligned with the nonreligious, particularly in their opposition to the religious right's impact on politics. What we're seeing with the religious right, therefore, is a bunch of people grabbing as many goodies as they can before they're kicked out the door.
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"Are Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right?" (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2013
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PDJane
(10,103 posts)1. I sincerely hope so.
It's long past time that someone put a stake in the heart of that monster.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. The religious right is killing the religious right.
Their policies, beliefs, authoritarian mind sets, anti-science, anti-education, anti-women, anti-anybody except old white native born men, etc.
That's what's killing the GOP.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Agree. They are the masters of their own demise.