Nicht-Religion ist die neue Normalität: Laut einer neuen Analyse haben sechs von zehn unter 35-Jährigen keine Religion
Non-religion is the new normal: six in ten under-35s have no religion, new analysis finds
Von birdinthebush74
Nicht-Religion ist die neue Normalität: Laut einer neuen Analyse haben sechs von zehn unter 35-Jährigen keine Religion
Non-religion is the new normal: six in ten under-35s have no religion, new analysis finds
Von birdinthebush74
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I’m honestly surprised, and a bit disappointed, that it’s not higher
Guess those “quiet revivalists” should have been a bit louder
Humans getting smarter and not being brainwashed by corrupt organised religions*
I don’t see this as a bad thing. The fact we have the freedom to express our true beliefs in this country is amazing. Believe what you want to, because that’s progressiveness. Some countries ostracize or punish you for believing something other than what the system tells you to, so we’re lucky.
I used to celebrate news like this but now I just think ‚the urge to worship and never question‘ has been transferred to populist politicians and social media influencers.
Say what you like about Jesus but at least he never tried to sell us crypto.
No religion too? It’s hard to imagine, though I guess it’s easy if you try
We worship new gods now like mass media and influencers.
I know some omni-religious people who believe all spiritual beliefs and religions are true. I’m sure they balance out the individual non-believers.
Hopefully the remaining 40% will be watching the 3 Abrahamic Twats currently fighting a stupid war and have a bit of a rethink.
Honestly, I don’t know a single religious person in my family or social circles
It’s only taken 300 Years for The Age of Enlightenment to fully bed in.
Not too shabby…
I’m in my 60’s and dont know a single person who is “religious”. In fact I only knew a couple in my 20’s/30’s.
Good luck with reform pushing that „Christian nation“ bullshit.
No we ain’t.
Also a lot of people who consider themselves „spiritual“ will often put the religeon closest to their expereince. I grew up in a non religeous household and had life changing appiritions of Hindu gods. I spent a short while staying in a Buddhist monestary. In practice im full of shite.
I believe in a higher power but seriously fok religion
Be interesting to see how many of those non religious consider themselves spiritual.
What’s more interesting is those identifying as part of Christian religion is only 24% (and fast declining) while other religions are 13% (and rising)
It’s possible that the country’s main religion will be a non-Christian religion among youth in a couple generations.
Im not very religious myself, however I do think there’s more nuance then, religion = bad automatically and so every religion is more or less the same so its bad. There are religions which are worse on society than others.
Religion helped to ease the stress of people by moving their mental load on to “god” to handle it. It also helped people keep in line with certain ethics and moral values. The fear of punishment in the afterlife. Now yes we lost a lot of backward principles however a number of people are way more selfish and do things in their own interests since they believe it won’t make a difference. Mental health is also scientifically proven to be less prominent in religious people. The rise of mental health problems coinciding with the loss of religion isn’t shocking for that reason.
There are some beneficial as beliefs you can have for example Hinduism is more way of life then a set of rigid principles doctrines you have to follow. With different schools of thought and focus on treating every cell as god since the belief is everything was created by god so everything has a part of god in it. There’s also sects that are problematic inside it but that would be with anything to be fair especially if it’s large it’ll slowly branch out and people will teach / believe what they want to / interpret in the way they want.
There was a league table posted in one of the subs I’m in a while back, comparing regular church attendance in American States and other countries.
The bible belt states were all around 40% while the UK was at I think 5%.
We’ve been pretty much a secular country fur as long as I can remember. If religion is losing appeal even faster, given how hard the fundamentalist religious groups are trying to break into our politics, it can only be a good thing.
6/10 is okay, we’ll be better off when it’s closer to 10 though.
Makes it super weird that reform is doing the maga Christian thing and people I personally know do not give a toss about Christianity are posting we are a Christian country etc
Another few generations and we will be hopefully done with religion.
Then our Star Trek era can finally commence….
Religion (in my opinion) was used for three things. 1: To explain the unexplainable. 2: Provide comfort in hard times. 3: Manipulate people.
We have as a society gotten smarter and able to explain things with science and experience. So the majority of people who used religion for number 1 has shrunk.
People still use religion for comfort which I will never fault people for. No one is being hurt.
People still use religion to manipulate others. See: *insert world leaders here*
Organised religion should be illegal or at the very least taxed out of existence.
I this the place I come to say, „I’m religious“ and get massively down voted? Just curious.
So which is it? Are we being overrun by Islam or atheism?
I was born in 1990, and the only exposure i had to religion was RE, singing hyms in school and the odd church visit (weddings/funerals).
Neither i nor any of my friends took that stuff seriously.
Personally, while religion has good aspects to it, and i would defend the right of anyone to practice it, i believe in general it is bad for society – we have history to show that (and stories from my parents about their strict catholic parents that make my blood boil).
Only 6/10 people having no religion genuinely scares me in 2026.
I’ve never believed in god, I have always been very scientific and analytical about things, and not easily led by others, so religion just seemed like one of the many ways that a group of people gain wealth and power over the populous, I see straight through that shit.
I was organising a school volleyball trip recently and it required the pupils to be members of the Scottish Volleyball Association so they had to fill out forms to join SVA. There was an equality, diversity and inclusion part to the form. I was going through them to make sure they were filled in correctly, and that nobody put any joke answers, and out of 25 pupils only 1 put that they were religious.
„My invisible God is better than your invisible God!“
„No it’s not, MINE is the best God!“
„Ok, let’s start a never ending war to decide the outcome“
Actually this might be confirming the Quiet Revival Poll lol
The Quiet Revival poll actually found similar results. The thing is that now those who identify as Christians are more likely to be practicing than before since the whole „tribal identity“ doesn’t exist anymore. So those left identify because they believe and not because their parents said so. It would also be interesting to see if there’s a difference between Gen Z and Millenials. Probably not but it would be interesting.
Sadly seems to be going the other way in the US. Most every sporting event I watch where they interview someone after the game, especially college, the first thing they say after the first question is asked…“first of all I’d like to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ…“
Barley met anyone in life here who is religious. Even less who go to church.
That’s funny, cuz a certain demographic like to remind people often that „this is a Christian country“.
I don’t think it’s a good thing necessarily; at least religion can give you comfort and push you to make the right decisions. Some religions, that is.
‚No religion‘ does not necessarily equate to ’no supernatural beliefs whatsoever‘. I live in a country where secularism is a big deal, and am having the wonderful (heavy sarcasm) experience of atheist grief, that is, I believe that when my mother died she was totally and permanently obliterated (no, she does not ‚live on in my memory‘. That is not her consciousness, it is mine.). I was rather shocked at the number of people who came up to me after she died and told me totally unprompted that they were ’not religious‘ but believed that there was ’something‘ after death. One person even told me that she was ’not religious‘ but that my mother was now with her beloved dead cat and had ‚things to do in the spirit world‘.
Can’t you hear that boombadoomboom boombadoomboom eh ain’t it that superbased
Christians are endocrinated as babies when they don’t have choice, belief or ideas and then told what to believe and how..get put in special schools and such such..cult. So they’ll still have decent figures but I think even then some people are becoming more free thinkers
Honestly surprised it’s not more. Pretty much no one in my town growing up was religious, none of my family or friends
GREAT! Those are rookie numbers, though. We need to pump those up a bit.
This is promising. Let’s keep it up until the majority are able to apply critical thought and the claims for religious deference to antisocial and occasionally repugnant acts are dismissed with the ridicule they deserve.
In the distant future I imagine religion will become a thing of the past as most are genenally religious because there parents are.