{"id":59293,"date":"2018-02-17T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=59293"},"modified":"2018-02-17T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T18:49:08","slug":"atheism-doubles-among-generation-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/atheism-doubles-among-generation-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheism doubles among Generation Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/atheism-doubles-among-generation-z\/\">Good news<\/a><\/b> from the Barna Group, a Christian polling organization:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>Atheism on the Rise<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>For Gen Z, \u201catheist\u201d is no longer a dirty word: The percentage of teens who identify as such is double that of the general population (13% vs. 6% of all adults). The proportion that identifies as Christian likewise drops from generation to generation. Three out of four Boomers are Protestant or Catholic Christians (75%), while just three in five 13- to 18-year-olds say they are some kind of Christian (59%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was particularly interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teens, along with young adults, are more likely than older Americans to say the problem of evil and suffering is a deal breaker for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;as was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly half of teens, on par with Millennials, say \u201cI need factual evidence to support my beliefs\u201d (46%)\u2014which helps to explain their uneasiness with the relationship between science and the Bible. Significantly fewer teens and young adults (28% and 25%) than Gen X and Boomers (36% and 45%) see the two as complementary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from the Barna Group, a Christian polling organization: Atheism on the Rise For Gen Z, \u201catheist\u201d is no longer a dirty word: The percentage of teens who identify as such is double that of the general population (13% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/atheism-doubles-among-generation-z\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}