Ryan Burge
Professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, and for two decades the pastor of a small American Baptist church. He writes Graphs About Religion, working through large survey datasets on what Americans believe, whether they belong to anything, and whether they turn up.
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Their wordsAmong the Silent Generation (born 1925–1945), only 15% of parents had a single child. It was 22% of Boomers and 27% of Generation X.
↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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American conservatives are not out-reproducing liberals to any degree that would change the country.
Their wordsSo, yeah, there’s a substantive difference there, but it’s not like Republicans are just outbreeding Democrats on a massive scale.
↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsEmbracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
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Their wordsYes, religion does seem to have an impact on the decision about the number of kids a family will have, but it’s a very minor difference.
↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsComparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.
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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.
↗Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certaingraphsaboutreligion.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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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.
↗Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certaingraphsaboutreligion.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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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.
↗Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certaingraphsaboutreligion.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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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.
↗Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certaingraphsaboutreligion.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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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.
↗Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certaingraphsaboutreligion.com 5th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsWhether that decline matters is a different question — and one the data alone can’t answer.
↗America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe first thing that I always point out with this graph is that most nones are not atheists or agnostics.
↗America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.
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