Name: Millennials Are Leaving Church Over Politics #ChurchAndPolitics #FaithAndPolitics #LeavingReligion
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And According to a 2021 paper in the Sociology of Religion, nearly 40% of people who disaffiliated from religion cited political differences with their congregation as the key reason.

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And the majority of that are going to be white millennials, white Gen Z liberals who see Christianity as synonymous with Republican values and so are leaving church because they just don't feel like they have a home there.

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And there's lots of studies that support this.

She wrote this groundbreaking book in 2018 called From Politics to the Pews.

And she's talking about how liberals are disaffiliating from churches because they see Christianity as politically conservative and conservatives are remaining Christian or coming back to Christianity as a way to reinforce their political identity.

So partisanship is shaping your religion, not the other way around.

And there used to be, even in my memory when I was younger, different kinds of political stances within one congregation.

Like, when I was younger, I was raised Mormon, so I can only talk about being raised Mormon.

But it wasn't unheard of to be, like, a Democrat and be Mormon.

Like, there were a few apostles who were Democrat.

There was even, you know, a senator who was a Democrat Mormon.

But now you really do hear over the pulpit, not just Mormonism, but

Christian churches in general say that you can't be Democrat and Christian.

Like, I don't remember that rhetoric when I was younger.