'A threat to democracy': William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics

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10. Recent Pew Research results on religious affiliation show significant declines.

Here’s a link to some interesting charts.

https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

In the US, the number of people claiming no religion has grown by 30 million people in the last decade. Younger people especially are choosing no religion. People like Barr and the extremist right-wing evangelicals (mostly white and rural) are most likely turning off young people with their views that women are subservient to men, gays should be punished, minorities are inferior to whites, and women should not have the right to make their own medical decisions. Young people have friends whose are gays or minorities, so they do not buy the religious theology being pushed. That said, some mainstream Christian denominations are also having losses, so many people are just not identifying with formal religious beliefs now. Personally, I’m fine with that because I believe that our laws and government are too influenced by religious considerations and beliefs.