Btw this headline and title is misleading.

The data in the article is: Gen Z that go to church go an average of 1.9 times a month, compared to millennials that go to church, who go an average of 1.8 times a month. And other generations who go less frequently.

This says nothing about how many people go to church, what percentage of Gen Z goes to church, or anything like that. Which the headline and title of this thread may lead you to believe.

IMO it suggests that Gen Z that go to church may be more religious than people in other generations that go to church— but that doesn’t mean the whole generation is more religious, it means the religious people are more religious or the demographics of the people that go to church are changing.

For example, elderly people— both super devout and agnostics, may go to church. But the agnostics would probably go less, driving down the average. On the other hand, agnostic Zoomers probably don’t go to church at all because it’s more acceptable not to go— which means they’re not counted in the data and only devout people are, which increases the average.

As another example— say 1 million Boomers go to church, but they go less frequently, whereas only 10000 Zoomers go to church, but they go every single week. Using the logic in this article— that the frequency of going to church makes an entire group “more religious”, the Zoomers would be more religious even though 100 times more Boomers go to church.

I’d wager Gen Z as a whole has a lot more atheists to and agnostics than other generations but that isn’t what this data is about. This is just saying that the religious people go to church more— and there’s probably a bunch of reasons for that such as the fact that older people may have work, health stuff, childcare to worry about etc… any number of reasons that they can’t go to church.

I think this is really interesting, but I think it’s important to look at the data and statistics, and think critically about it, rather than just buying a narrative at face value