La non religione è la nuova normalità: sei giovani su dieci sotto i 35 anni non hanno religione, secondo una nuova analisi

I’m honestly surprised, and a bit disappointed, that it’s not higher

Humans getting smarter and not being brainwashed by corrupt organised religions*

I used to celebrate news like this but now I just think ‘the urge to worship and never question’ has been transferred to populist politicians and social media influencers.

Say what you like about Jesus but at least he never tried to sell us crypto.

We worship new gods now like mass media and influencers.

Honestly, I don’t know a single religious person in my family or social circles 

I’m in my 60’s and dont know a single person who is “religious”. In fact I only knew a couple in my 20’s/30’s.

Also a lot of people who consider themselves “spiritual” will often put the religeon closest to their expereince. I grew up in a non religeous household and had life changing appiritions of Hindu gods. I spent a short while staying in a Buddhist monestary. In practice im full of shite.

Be interesting to see how many of those non religious consider themselves spiritual.

Im not very religious myself, however I do think there’s more nuance then, religion = bad automatically and so every religion is more or less the same so its bad. There are religions which are worse on society than others.

Religion helped to ease the stress of people by moving their mental load on to “god” to handle it. It also helped people keep in line with certain ethics and moral values. The fear of punishment in the afterlife. Now yes we lost a lot of backward principles however a number of people are way more selfish and do things in their own interests since they believe it won’t make a difference. Mental health is also scientifically proven to be less prominent in religious people. The rise of mental health problems coinciding with the loss of religion isn’t shocking for that reason.

There are some beneficial as beliefs you can have for example Hinduism is more way of life then a set of rigid principles doctrines you have to follow. With different schools of thought and focus on treating every cell as god since the belief is everything was created by god so everything has a part of god in it. There’s also sects that are problematic inside it but that would be with anything to be fair especially if it’s large it’ll slowly branch out and people will teach / believe what they want to / interpret in the way they want.

Makes it super weird that reform is doing the maga Christian thing and people I personally know do not give a toss about Christianity are posting we are a Christian country etc

Religion (in my opinion) was used for three things. 1: To explain the unexplainable. 2: Provide comfort in hard times. 3: Manipulate people.

We have as a society gotten smarter and able to explain things with science and experience. So the majority of people who used religion for number 1 has shrunk.

People still use religion for comfort which I will never fault people for. No one is being hurt.

People still use religion to manipulate others. See: *insert world leaders here*

So which is it? Are we being overrun by Islam or atheism?

I was born in 1990, and the only exposure i had to religion was RE, singing hyms in school and the odd church visit (weddings/funerals).

Neither i nor any of my friends took that stuff seriously.

Personally, while religion has good aspects to it, and i would defend the right of anyone to practice it, i believe in general it is bad for society – we have history to show that (and stories from my parents about their strict catholic parents that make my blood boil).

Only 6/10 people having no religion genuinely scares me in 2026.