Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho

You expressed interest in why that specific age range. I replied that it was simply offered as a comparison.

I was just curious why that specific age group was singled out as if it were significant. It seems to me that younger people always are less religious than older ones.
Like in the UK.
National Statistics Online - Product - Men belonging to a religion: by age: Social Focus on Men
Or in Australia.
Generation Y turning away from religion - National - theage.com.au

It seems the world is becoming less religious. Maybe Gadget is just part of the "new wave" of people that are just as fanatically atheist as fundies are religious.

I don't know that I would say that the younger generation has always been less religious than the previous one. Certainly that has been the case in the last two generations, but I really can't speak for the time beyond that point.

It doesn't seem to me that the hippies were all that religious since they obviously threw quite a few of the moral tenets of Christianity to the wind.. But I was born in 1969 so I don't know.



I suspect that people become 'more religious' as they get older because of an inborn fear of their own mortality. as they approach an age where the immortality complex, that most young people have, wears off, they turn to religion as a way of extending their lives beyond the mortal realm.