{"id":1740,"date":"2012-11-10T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/11\/the-election-and-why-millennials-are-leaving-the-church-margins.html"},"modified":"2012-11-10T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:56:00","slug":"the-election-and-why-millennials-are-leaving-the-church-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/11\/the-election-and-why-millennials-are-leaving-the-church-margins.html","title":{"rendered":"The Election and Why Millennials are Leaving the Church Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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One of the most interesting findings about our electorate this election cycle is the growing number of people identifying as religiously unaffiliated or \u201cNones\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n

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In October, the\u00a0Pew Research Center\u00a0<\/a>identified that \u201cNones\u201d were on the rise with one-in-five adults polled indicating that they had no religious affiliation. The trend toward religious disaffiliation was particularly pronounced in my age bracket \u2013 \u201cthe\u00a0Millennials\u201d \u2013 with one third identifying as such.<\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/a>While a significant group of \u201cNones\u201d identify as atheist or agnostic, a larger proportion continue to maintain a belief in God or spirituality but do not identify with a particular faith tradition. As I have suggested in previous work, this growth in the religiously unaffiliated has been most pronounced among white\u00a0millennials and has contributed to a slow but steady decline in the white mainline and evangelical Protestant communities.<\/span><\/div>\n

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One of the most interesting findings about our electorate this election cycle is the growing number of people identifying as religiously unaffiliated or \u201cNones\u201d. In October, the\u00a0Pew Research Center\u00a0identified that \u201cNones\u201d were on the rise with one-in-five adults polled indicating that they had no religious affiliation. 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