Pew Research Center has been conducting a series of studies on religious attitudes in the U.S. over the past decade and recently released its latest set of findings.  As I approach “elderly discount eligibility,” I'm increasingly fascinated by shifts in generational attitudes and how they become manifest in politics.  There is interesting data, on the heels of prior versions of this survey from '14 and '17, which is summarized below.  I submit the polarity in the U.S. political realm is correlated with this tectonic shift in religious attitudes. Adults identifying as Christians down 12% the past decade Adults identifying as "nones" (i.e. atheistic, agnostic or "nothing in particular”) up 9% the past decade Protestantism declining faster (down 8% to 43) than Catholicism (down 3% to 20) the past decade Church attendance (varying measures of frequency) down a range of 7-9% Millennials who identify as Christian down...(Read Full Post)