It's empirically true that confidence in organized religion has dropped – especially for the youngest Americans.
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) September 19, 2021
But it's also the case that people never really had that much trust in religion.
In the 1970s only 40% of the Greatest Generation had a "great deal" of confidence. pic.twitter.com/2eJwXSSjW7
There are a dozen institutions listed in the GSS. I cannot find a single one where the confidence of Millennials is higher today than it was ten years ago.
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) September 23, 2021
Even as confidence in the military has risen for every other generation – it's flat for Millennials. pic.twitter.com/9K7IOYlSVb
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