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The issue isn’t so much that Americans have become less religious, it is that many fewer of them were raised in homes that had at least one religious parent. t
by gbronner 5y ago
The issue isn’t so much that Americans have become less religious, it is that many fewer of them were raised in homes that had at least one religious parent. the experience of practicing a religion, even if you don’t believe it, tends to protect you from the single minded politics as religion thought process
- Ieghaehia9 5y agoThat theory would suggest that the less religious a country, the more religious its politics. But plenty of countries in Europe are at least as irreligious as the US[1][2], yet the same effect doesn't seem to hold there. [1] https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/being-christian-in-western-europe/ https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/being-christian-in-weste... [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/06/10-facts-about-atheists/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/06/10-facts-ab...