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Their wordsSaid another way, for every person who is pretty sure that God doesn’t exist, there are six who are fairly certain of the existence of a Higher Power. Non-believers are statistically rare.
Their wordsWhich means that they aren’t sliding all the way to the other side of the spectrum. Instead, they are just moving one level down.
Their wordsthe drop in certain belief is the same size for both liberals and conservatives. It’s 15 percentage points when comparing the oldest respondents to the youngest.
Their wordsSo, it’s just not empirically true that younger liberals are atheists — the data clearly says that’s not true for 70% of them.
Their wordsThe United States may no longer be a country of people widely engaging in religious behavior or religious belonging. But it certainly has a whole bunch of religious believers.