Another round of black pilling on Generation Z swept through counterculture circles over the July 4 weekend. The hand-wringing for the future was occasioned by this survey.
Now, the takeaway some are deriving from those figures, that only about a third of Zoomers believe in God, is provably nonsense. What Burge is peddling are sensationalistic claims based on a survey worded to get the result the poll makes wanted.
No social scientist–much less theologian–who really wanted to gauge the prevalence of faith in America would phrase the proposition, “I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it.”
What he’d ask is the question that would inform him how many Americans believe in God, that being, “Do you believe in God?”
As it happens, someone has asked that question, and the responses broke down like this:
That’s not to paint a universally rosy picture of American Christianity. Church membership among adults has declined rather sharply since–you guessed it–the late 90s:
Which coincides with members of Generation Y entering adulthood.
Is this dwindling of America’s Christian tradition among Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, and Zoomers due to what some call the Boomer Black Hole?
This weekend I sat down with author Ben Wheeler on the Superversive Stream to talk about the Boomers’ dubious legacy and discuss how the Locust Generation’s posterity can survive in the post-Boomer world.
Give it a listen:
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The Nu Atheist peak was back in the late ’00s and was led by Ys like the Amazing Atheist and the entire skeptic crew, with a few Gen Xers for good measure. Reminder that even figures like Mister Metokur and Raz0rfist hung around with these people.
But now look at these groups. None of them believe any of the “edgy” things they did back at their peak. They use terminology and dogma from the Death Cult and won’t even bat an eye about how righteous and progressive they are on one hand while still smirking about their dead end nihilism on the other. Everyone else has moved on from them, and the younger generations won’t go near them.
To be an antitheist now is step to step into a dead world of outdated euphoric memes and contradictory nihilist humanism that is pretty much exclusive to those born between 1968 and 1992. No one outside of that age bracket is going to click with it. As you can tell with how did the skeptic sphere is now.
It was like the argument I made in my recent Science Fiction Doesn’t Exist series. This belief based on a worldview and frame of existence exclusive to one particular period of time and space among a very specific populace that no one really believes anymore. It has no relevance to the modern day and never will again. It was a fad that came and went and can never exist again.
Atheists are outdated as a concept. The Nu crew are all humanist one world government believers that want to live off a trough, or are individualist tough guys who will be surprised to see their home drone bombed while their neighbors shrug because they don’t give a crap about the guy who reported them for having a tree branch stick out two inches from the fence property line. They are irrelevant in the big scheme of things because of their own choices springing from their beliefs.
Anyone that thinks atheism will take root in modern times is clearly living in the past. It’s going back to where it was before: the domain of a small population who keep it behind closed doors and barely mention it otherwise.
It’s about due.
Don’t forget the third type: ex-Reddit fedoras who still want butt stuff and street drugs but are monomaniacally certain that little hats and Chuck E. Cheese Americans are standing athwart their entry into hedonic utopia.
The thing is that the more you look into how the universe works, the less likely random chance becomes. Even the simplest life forms are miracles of micro and nano engineering. The universe just isn’t old enough for the mutations needed to produce such subtle elegance.
In my large extended family:
My grandparents are greatest generation. They have their ups and downs personality wise, but all of them were firmly committed Catholics.
Their children (i.e. my aunts and uncles as well as my parents) are largely boomers with a couple in Gen Jones. All of them still attend mass. However, about 50% of them are purely “cultural Catholics.” This is made clear both by what they say (such as ranting about how we should have female priests, how contraception isn’t a problem, etc.) but also in their reactions to the next generation.
The next generation (i.e. my siblings and cousins) is a mix of a few members of Gen X, but mainly Gen Y and Millennials. This is where you see a big exodus from the Church. A lot of their reactions can be summed up as “my parents forced me to go to mass even though they didn’t believe it, so why should I keep going now?” Their parents are mainly horrified by the fact that their kids are not getting a nice ceremony in a church for their weddings, or that they aren’t taking advantage of social opportunities from church groups. Dogma and salvation doesn’t enter into it. On the other hand, the children of those who actually were serious about Catholicism are probably about 75% still in the Church and serious about it, with the ones who left in that group being entirely due to losing faith from college indoctrination. Everyone who left the church is basically a soy bugman glued to the news and social media, those who remained are more varied but largely are disconnected from mainstream culture.
Generation after that is largely Zoomers + whatever you call the generation after that. It’s a bit early to see where they’ll end up, though the ones that are raised by relatives who left the church have almost no conception of religion whatsoever. It’s the old story of the faithless Gen Y and Millennials saying “Supposedly Moses had an ark or something, but I don’t believe those fairy tales” and the Zoomers saying “What’s a Moses?” But the kids in the faithful families seem to be doing alright.
This testimonial illustrates the folly of leaving individuals to figure out religion by themselves. Like all the other areas in which Boomers took a laissez-faire approach to parenting, such as interacting with the opposite sex and personal finance, the hands-off model has ended in disaster.
Most people are NPCs who do what social programming tells them. In the Ages of Faith, that programming told them to attend Mass, receive the sacraments, and pray daily.
Don’t be surprised to find Medieval NPCs overrepresented in Heaven.
“But you admit that they’re NPCs?”
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