Not sure I buy that. UK passed >50% atheism some years back and is steadily becoming more so going on census. Ethnic minorities seem far more likely to retain

Not sure I buy that. UK passed >50% atheism some years back and is steadily becoming more so going on census. Ethnic minorities seem far more likely to retain some religion and keep the figures up. In my generation most were still given some Christian instruction, sent to Sunday school etc. The majority had grown out of it by adulthood. Church wedding might be chosen for pretty setting. Church school picked for children as it does well in local ratings. Now I'm middle aged. Over the years quite a few formerly religious friends have become atheist or agnostic - often because life got serious. Of the few people I know who are still religious they are mostly old folks. Surely some of those life events would have triggered a few former atheists to find religion by now? I just find it hard to believe I occupy wildly unrepresentative atheistic circles. As an aside we often think the significant part that religion still seems to play in the US rather strange from this side of the Atlantic.