Why Millennial Women Are Embracing Atheism

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4. Had they interviewed Boomers 50 years ago, they'd have gotten similar results

I saw secular friends get sucked back in when they had kids and those kids wanted to join church youth groups with their friends and go on fun camping trips and all that. The parents had to join up to get them in and once they joined up, the community kept them there.

Likely the Millennials will also get sucked back into it when they have kids.

So don't hold out hope for people in their 20s to be some sort of secular revolution. With any luck, the churches will get their bodies but never gain control of their hearts or minds, but they'll still say the community is important, if not the dogma.

Still, the Boomers are only 60% religious. Earlier generations were 80-90%, That's progress.