The Religious Decline Everyone’s Panicking About Is Partly Fake
The dramatic decline in religious affiliation everyone’s been panicking about is partly an illusion. For decades, people checked ‘Christian’ on surveys not because they believed, but because it was the social default. The rise of the ‘nones’ isn’t a collapse of faith — it’s a correction in honesty. The data was always inflated, and the real story is about what we’re finally willing to admit.