What happens to people who grow up in strictly atheist religious households. Are you ready ?

Fireball

thanks for sharing

nico

I don't know the statistics, but my household was non religious. I can't say atheists really, but definitely non religious. Me, my parents, and my older brother have become Christians since we all moved out on our own. My younger brother is a fence sitter. He believes in God, but he isn't sure about the Bible. We're working on him.

Zzz

And does anybody care

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊

Never heard of a strictly atheist household, genius. Which orifice did you pull that out of?

rd68

“A strictly atheist religious household”. There seems to be a slight contradiction in there..

Reynaldo Weeks

Christian Post, Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate? LOL! Yeah, I'm sure that's valid.

STEVAN

where to christians get all this data from. Ive got a feeling they just make it up as they go along

jon pike

Asked and answered.

steve

Wow are you for real? I notice the website you use to support your opinion is a Christian one. I like everyone I know were brought up Christian. Once we grew up and got an education and our parents allowed us to decide for ourselves I don't know of anyone who stayed with religion.

Suzy Q

That's nice, dear. Now run along and do your homework. You have a lot to learn.

LizB

Atheism isn't a religion, and your source has a very clear bias, as does the author of the study who actively writes about Catholic life. The "study" also failed to account for 26% of adults raised in atheist households, they only cared about the 44% who joined some faith or other. So the answers of a quarter of the respondents was basically ignored, meaning they could have joined either a minority religion that the author didn't consider important enough to mention, or those individuals identified as "unaffiliated" or "agnostic." You also apparently overlooked the part about how Hindus, Jews, and Muslims ALL have a higher "retention rate" than any form of Christian. LOLZ. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pew_Forum%27s_U.S._Religious_Landscape_Survey

Pippin

What is an 'atheist religion?'

Invisible spiritman

Of course, they use their parents as an example of how not to be in life.

Bloop

I don't know the statistics, but my household was non religious. I can't say atheists really, but definitely non religious. Me, my parents, and my older brother have become Christians since we all moved out on our own. My younger brother is a fence sitter. He believes in God, but he isn't sure about the Bible. We're working on him.

Juli

BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising The rise of the atheists By Michael Shermer on April 1, 2018 The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising Credit: Izhar Cohen In recent years much has been written about the rise of the “nones”—people who check the box for “none” on surveys of religious affiliation. A 2013 Harris Poll of 2,250 American adults, for example, found that 23 percent of all Americans have forsaken religion altogether. A 2015 Pew Research Center poll reported that 34 to 36 percent of millennials (those born after 1980) are nones and corroborated the 23 percent figure, adding that this was a dramatic increase from 2007, when only 16 percent of Americans said they were affiliated with no religion. In raw numbers, this translates to an increase from 36.6 million to 55.8 million nones. Though lagging far behind the 71 percent of Americans who identified as Christian in the Pew poll, they are still a significant voting block, far larger than Jews (4.7 million), Muslims (2.2 million) and Buddhists (1.7 million) combined (8.6 million) and comparable to politically powerful Christian sects such as Evangelical (25.4 percent) and Catholic (20.8 percent). This shift away from the dominance of any one religion is good for a secular society whose government is structured to discourage catch basins of power from building up and spilling over into people's private lives. But it is important to note that these nones are not necessarily atheists. Many have moved from mainstream religions into New Age spiritual movements, as evidenced in a 2017 Pew poll that found an increase from 19 percent in 2012 to 27 percent in 2017 of those who reported being “spiritual but not religious.” Among this cohort, only 37 percent described their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” In a paper in the January 2018 issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science entitled “How Many Atheists Are There?”, Will M. Gervais and Maxine B. Najle, both psychologists at the University of Kentucky, contend that there may be far more atheists than pollsters report because “social pressures favoring religiosity, coupled with stigma against religious disbelief..., might cause people who privately disbelieve in God to nonetheless self-present as believers, even in anonymous questionnaires.”

Archer

One will find that parents who are Atheists will educate their children in the different Theisms out there for they are not afraid of such nor the free and informed choice to be made by their children as they become adults. Many have Theistic children and support their life choices.

Arni

Your source is 'christianpost.com' really? Troll.

Spirit of All

Love, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and encouragement of an open mind.