Good News: Is the Internet Killing Religion? (CNN article)

by Oubliette 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Oubliette

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  I just saw this interesting article on CNN, Is the Internet Killing Religion? by Jessica Ravitz.

  It's good news for most of us. Ms. Ravitz discusses the strong "correlation between increased Internet use and religious disaffiliation."

  Although correlation does not prove causation, it's pretty easy in this case to see the relationship.

  "When a new technology, such as the printing press or the Internet, unleashes massive cultural change, the challenge to religion is immense. Cultural developments change how God, or the ultimate, is thought of and spoken about," Cheryl Casey, professor of media, society and ethics at Champlain College in Vermont

  Here are a few more choice tidbits:

  • The “nones" is the fastest-growing “religious” group in America
  • Since 1985, the number of first-year college students who say they're religiously unaffiliated has grown from 8% to 25%
  • One in five American adults, and a third of those under 30, are unaffiliated with any religion

  Read the article for more info:

  Is the Internet Killing Religion?

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  MadGiant

  Thanks,

  Ismael
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  Crazyguy

  I read somewhere that 16% of Americans leave their religion of their youth per year. Of those only 3% change to a new religion the rest leave religion altogether..
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  Oubliette

  Crazyguy: I read somewhere that 16% of Americans leave their religion of their youth per year.

  I don't know about that, but according to a survey in the Pew forum a few years back, fully 2 out of 3 "born-in" JWs leave the religion!