Well this is good news.

Adding that to my to-read list. I like that the subtitle includes “and what comes next.” One would hope people would become more reasonable after leaving religion. But I’ve seen too many examples of people leaving religion just to fling themselves into some other unhealthy form of tribalism.

When you are starting from a much higher base then statistically that may be true but the USA is still much more religious than other developed western country.

A major reason that it may be happening so quickly here is that we are way behind most of the rest of the Western world in this respect, they having mostly let it go long ago. Not that the news is not welcome.

The best quote from that: "This is what happens when you belong to a death cult."
Yes, Xianity is a death cult.

Americans have become lazy and don't like being told what to do, hence less people going to churches. Problem is they still believe in stupid shit.

The West coast is on fire, the gulf coast is flooding, our president is trying to force kids back into public schools during a pandemic.
This is the kind of world prayers has built.
Every management decision was in direct contradiction to all sound scientific recommendations and all known facts.
The fundamentalist Christian party, aka the Conservative party, aka the incompetence party, aka the Racist fascism party, aka the Republicans live in a fake world of imagination that seems impervious to all demonstrable truth and common sense.
Conservatives had just as wells call themselves Confederates as far as I'm concerned, praying for Jesus too come back as the world burns is no plan.

Thanks, I keep wondering what consequences it would have in the real estate market, and in day to day American life on the social gathering side of things, if all the churches and other places of worship either come up for sale by their owners, or are re-tasked in some way.

I tend to think that evangelical support of Trump and his immoral behavior and hypocrisy hasn't hastened this rejection particularly among younger folks.

Belief proposed miracles. Prayer promised relief. Where in the heaven or hell is it?

Too many substitute regressive leftist/socialist/Marxist dogma for their rejected religious dogma.

Too many still believe in god.