Comment by amanaplanacanal
4 days ago
At least in the US, people are leaving the church (at least the more conservative ones) in droves. I saw recent numbers that over 40% of people who were raised LDS are no longer in adulthood, for example.
Tying religion to politics was probably a bad idea for both religion and politics.
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/catholic-schools-and-w... (“Just 58% of People Raised Catholic Are Still Catholic”)
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/the-lds-church-has-a-r... (“Just a bare majority of kids raised LDS are still LDS as adults (54%)“)