Gen Z women are increasingly leaving organized religion behind

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/13/gen-z-women-less-religious/74673083007/

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  3. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking leaves organized religion.

  4. 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?

  5. 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

  6. 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*

  7. A book written by sheep farmers 2000 years ago probably doesn’t appeal to American women in 2024.

  8. 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.

  9. That’s weird. Religion has always been very good to young women. /s

  10. Women should have dropped religion 100 years ago, good on Gen Z for finally realizing they are being duped.

  11. Wow, I wonder why modern women are leaving something that institutionally represses them…

  12. 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.

  14. “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

  15. Well, if they don’t vote, religion won’t be leaving _them_ behind (hello tradwives!).

  16. And millennial women! 🙋🏼‍♀️ they jumped the shark with their mistreatment of lgbtq and adoration of trump. All done!

  19. 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.”

  20. Probably because most women don’t want to be oppressed, especially younger generations

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  24. And Gen X, female gen x here, left during early COVID.

  26. 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.

  29. I really don’t see the utility of religion in modern society other than outright control. What tangible benefit does it give someone?

  30. 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.

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