Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking leaves organized religion.
9mac on
Women have significantly higher educational attainment levels than men, so this makes perfect sense.
NickConrad on
You can be a Handmaid’s Tale tradwife, or you can be the leader of the free world. I wonder why they are going one way and not the other?
UziMunkey on
Good. Organized religion is poison. Time the human race grew up. I swear, watching grown ass people waving their hands in the air and closing their eyes, it’s like believing in Santa in your 40s
sh4desthevibe on
Organized religion: “You should be submissive to your husbands, never divorce them, and cede control of your body over to the moral/religious/government authorities.”
*I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be frothing at the mouth to sign up for this… /s*
PlatinumKanikas on
A book written by sheep farmers 2000 years ago probably doesn’t appeal to American women in 2024.
TAHINAZ on
I’m millennial, not gen z, but I get it. I still very much consider myself Christian, but organized religion is a different story. I’ve tried throughout my life to find the right church. I’m sure there are some good ones out there still, but none of the ones I’ve tried have any use whatsoever for a poor, single, childfree democrat woman. It’s even worse here in Texas. The last one I tried said they would allow my mother to join, (presumably because she’s a boomer with children.) But me? Not so much. I’m the epitome of ‘not their type of people.’
I walked down the halls one Sunday. Most of the classrooms were empty. The pews were half full. The nursery was completely empty. There were very few people under 65, and the few that were younger were subservient trad wives married to red pill Republicans. They let me sit in a seat, but that’s about it. The last straw was when they said democrats are literally demons.
Now I pray and read the Bible on my own. At this point, I don’t think Jesus minds. There are good Christians out there, but so many in the pews are Pharisees, enjoying their little country club.
ClassicallyBrained on
That’s weird. Religion has always been very good to young women. /s
Kopav on
I can’t wait till we get to a point in our world that having delusional fantasies about invisible and all-powerful friends is correctly denounced for being a delusional fantasy.
ScaryLawler on
Women should have dropped religion 100 years ago, good on Gen Z for finally realizing they are being duped.
Romnonaldao on
Wow, I wonder why modern women are leaving something that institutionally represses them…
Desperate_Stay_8102 on
The GOP (Trump/Vance, etc.) view of what religion and women’s role in the family unit “should be” may be the cause of that.
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/13/gen-z-women-less-religious/74673083007/) reduced by 94%. (I’m a bot)
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> Among Generation Z the pattern has flipped: 54% of those who'd left the church are female nearly four in 10 Gen Z women identify as religiously unaffiliated, compared to a third of Gen Z males.
> One statistic showed the vast difference between young women and their elders: While the share of religiously unaffiliated men was 11 points greater among Gen Z than Baby Boomers, young women were nearly three times as likely than Baby Boomer women to identify as such.
> According to the Survey Center on American Life, Generation Z women are far more concerned than previous generations with inequality and scornful of institutions adhering to patriarchal hierarchies – including more conservative churches, where women are not allowed to preach or hold leadership positions.
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?”
– Thomas Paine – Age of Reason
gargar7 on
Well, if they don’t vote, religion won’t be leaving _them_ behind (hello tradwives!).
SphentheVegan on
And millennial women! 🙋🏼♀️ they jumped the shark with their mistreatment of lgbtq and adoration of trump. All done!
Squawk31 on
Gen Z woman here.
Damn right we are.
Chalkarts on
That’s a great trend
Ovaltineyum on
I was never religious, but it’s always seemed to me that it doesn’t particularly MATTER if a god, any god, is my creator if he/she/it is doing bad things. Organized religion of the Abrahamic sort would happily require women marry their rapists, submit to their husbands without question and despite anything he does, and refuse them general freedoms. Regardless of eternal damnation or my existence being owed to someone…why should I love someone for that?
I don’t understand how ANYONE can read about Abraham and Issac or Job and go “yes. This entity loves me and deserves my loyalty.”
bigbeatmanifesto- on
Probably because most women don’t want to be oppressed, especially younger generations
Virbillion on
humanity won’t grow up until we all stop talking to imaginary friends in the sky.
threehundredthousand on
Originally, the separation of church and state was to protect churches of every religion from gov’t politics. The church started losing enough relevance in American culture that they partnered up with the GOP. Now they share cancer back and forth and both deserve what they get.
emostitch on
American organized religion left women behind. And “good Christian’s” left the face of religion behind to the cults, bigots, conmen and zealots that are the only “Christians” whose statements make it to the mainstream.
Machete521 on
Education and the internet will do that to you.
Majestic-Broccoli579 on
And Gen X, female gen x here, left during early COVID.
Kennj430 on
Oh thank christ
JabbasPetRancor on
religion needs to die off.
SummoningRaziel on
Good. It’s oppressive.
papibigdaddy on
Glad to see it. They keep marketing evangelicalism to Gen Z and using bisexual lighting in chapels and stuff to appeal to younger people, then you hear the sermon and it’s just the same sermon, based on the same John MacArthur books, but the guy saying it has a curly mustache and low taper fade. It’s obvious they see the writing on the wall. The closer we get to a secular society, the better.
velvetreddit on
Just give me yoga, brunch, and a few fulfilling volunteer opportunities and let me live a content, mindful life among my community.
Stop trying to control my body and things that don’t cause others suffering. If I want to eat meat in the Spring on Friday because my iron is low than I will do it without feeling like someone is going to tell me I will go to hell.
Thank you.
Whyte_Dynamyte on
Good for them 🙂
Javasndphotoclicks on
Religion is a trillion dollar pyramid scam.
prodigy1367 on
Hopefully it’s the start of everyone leaving it behind. It’s high time we treat it like the ridiculous thing it actually is and not hold it up as something to be respected and put on a pedestal.
LuxSerafina on
Awesome! Religion is a cancer. Religion is always designed to make women subservient. Religion is made up by weak men who want power. It’s sick, it’s disgusting, and I wish I could live long enough to see it die out completely.
MystikSpiralx on
Yesss!! As a millennial woman, I love this for them! I left religion when I was 11. Religion, for me, was like being tethered to an anchor at the bottom of the ocean and leaving it behind freed me of that burden. I no longer felt like I was drowning, suffocating under the weight of something that I never connected with
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Just the women?
Good. Everyone should,
Why wouldn’t they?
Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking leaves organized religion.
Women have significantly higher educational attainment levels than men, so this makes perfect sense.
You can be a Handmaid’s Tale tradwife, or you can be the leader of the free world. I wonder why they are going one way and not the other?
Good. Organized religion is poison. Time the human race grew up. I swear, watching grown ass people waving their hands in the air and closing their eyes, it’s like believing in Santa in your 40s
Organized religion: “You should be submissive to your husbands, never divorce them, and cede control of your body over to the moral/religious/government authorities.”
*I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be frothing at the mouth to sign up for this… /s*
A book written by sheep farmers 2000 years ago probably doesn’t appeal to American women in 2024.
I’m millennial, not gen z, but I get it. I still very much consider myself Christian, but organized religion is a different story. I’ve tried throughout my life to find the right church. I’m sure there are some good ones out there still, but none of the ones I’ve tried have any use whatsoever for a poor, single, childfree democrat woman. It’s even worse here in Texas. The last one I tried said they would allow my mother to join, (presumably because she’s a boomer with children.) But me? Not so much. I’m the epitome of ‘not their type of people.’
I walked down the halls one Sunday. Most of the classrooms were empty. The pews were half full. The nursery was completely empty. There were very few people under 65, and the few that were younger were subservient trad wives married to red pill Republicans. They let me sit in a seat, but that’s about it. The last straw was when they said democrats are literally demons.
Now I pray and read the Bible on my own. At this point, I don’t think Jesus minds. There are good Christians out there, but so many in the pews are Pharisees, enjoying their little country club.
That’s weird. Religion has always been very good to young women. /s
I can’t wait till we get to a point in our world that having delusional fantasies about invisible and all-powerful friends is correctly denounced for being a delusional fantasy.
Women should have dropped religion 100 years ago, good on Gen Z for finally realizing they are being duped.
Wow, I wonder why modern women are leaving something that institutionally represses them…
The GOP (Trump/Vance, etc.) view of what religion and women’s role in the family unit “should be” may be the cause of that.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/13/gen-z-women-less-religious/74673083007/) reduced by 94%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Among Generation Z the pattern has flipped: 54% of those who'd left the church are female nearly four in 10 Gen Z women identify as religiously unaffiliated, compared to a third of Gen Z males.
> One statistic showed the vast difference between young women and their elders: While the share of religiously unaffiliated men was 11 points greater among Gen Z than Baby Boomers, young women were nearly three times as likely than Baby Boomer women to identify as such.
> According to the Survey Center on American Life, Generation Z women are far more concerned than previous generations with inequality and scornful of institutions adhering to patriarchal hierarchies – including more conservative churches, where women are not allowed to preach or hold leadership positions.
*****
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Believe in well-run charities. Screw religion.
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?”
– Thomas Paine – Age of Reason
Well, if they don’t vote, religion won’t be leaving _them_ behind (hello tradwives!).
And millennial women! 🙋🏼♀️ they jumped the shark with their mistreatment of lgbtq and adoration of trump. All done!
Gen Z woman here.
Damn right we are.
That’s a great trend
I was never religious, but it’s always seemed to me that it doesn’t particularly MATTER if a god, any god, is my creator if he/she/it is doing bad things. Organized religion of the Abrahamic sort would happily require women marry their rapists, submit to their husbands without question and despite anything he does, and refuse them general freedoms. Regardless of eternal damnation or my existence being owed to someone…why should I love someone for that?
I don’t understand how ANYONE can read about Abraham and Issac or Job and go “yes. This entity loves me and deserves my loyalty.”
Probably because most women don’t want to be oppressed, especially younger generations
humanity won’t grow up until we all stop talking to imaginary friends in the sky.
Originally, the separation of church and state was to protect churches of every religion from gov’t politics. The church started losing enough relevance in American culture that they partnered up with the GOP. Now they share cancer back and forth and both deserve what they get.
American organized religion left women behind. And “good Christian’s” left the face of religion behind to the cults, bigots, conmen and zealots that are the only “Christians” whose statements make it to the mainstream.
Education and the internet will do that to you.
And Gen X, female gen x here, left during early COVID.
Oh thank christ
religion needs to die off.
Good. It’s oppressive.
Glad to see it. They keep marketing evangelicalism to Gen Z and using bisexual lighting in chapels and stuff to appeal to younger people, then you hear the sermon and it’s just the same sermon, based on the same John MacArthur books, but the guy saying it has a curly mustache and low taper fade. It’s obvious they see the writing on the wall. The closer we get to a secular society, the better.
Just give me yoga, brunch, and a few fulfilling volunteer opportunities and let me live a content, mindful life among my community.
Stop trying to control my body and things that don’t cause others suffering. If I want to eat meat in the Spring on Friday because my iron is low than I will do it without feeling like someone is going to tell me I will go to hell.
Thank you.
Good for them 🙂
Religion is a trillion dollar pyramid scam.
Hopefully it’s the start of everyone leaving it behind. It’s high time we treat it like the ridiculous thing it actually is and not hold it up as something to be respected and put on a pedestal.
Awesome! Religion is a cancer. Religion is always designed to make women subservient. Religion is made up by weak men who want power. It’s sick, it’s disgusting, and I wish I could live long enough to see it die out completely.
Yesss!! As a millennial woman, I love this for them! I left religion when I was 11. Religion, for me, was like being tethered to an anchor at the bottom of the ocean and leaving it behind freed me of that burden. I no longer felt like I was drowning, suffocating under the weight of something that I never connected with