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This is interesting. You always hear stuff about how 99.9999% (or some really high number;) of Americans are ultra religious. I always felt this seemed really far off from my own experience in terms of how people I knew personally viewed religion. I kind of explained it away by figuring that there must be a huge enough number of religious people in more conservative parts of the country that it would offset the liberal parts I lived in.
Turns out that's actually not the major issue though. Pew Research did a study specifically focusing on the differences between generations, one part of which was a number of questions about religion.
Turns out both the extent of people who believe in God, as well as how big a factor it is in people's lives is, I think it's safe to say, plummeting. Belief in God for millenials is actually only 53%. Of course Pew doesn't frame it this was because saying that would really piss people off but I don't know what other interpretation can be drawn here.
In other words, if this trend continued over the next 20-30 years, you would have a society that was majority atheist/agnostic. That's kind of shocking to think about, but it looks like that's where we're headed.