re: religion 🇺🇸
@finnylion@snouts.online The more sensible Christians have been getting increasingly embarrassed by their Evangelical counterparts and decided to just drop their religion entirely, I feel.
Over here (🇳🇱) "no religion" has been the largest religious affiliation hands down since the '80s or so (and is very close to becoming the absolute majority here), and yeeeaaaah that's both the same dynamic that's encouraged that change, and continues to fuel it to this day to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if Islam ends up being the #1 religion here at some point in the future in spite of not actually growing much at all, just because the vast majority of would-be Christians stopped doing the whole religion thing altogether.
Then again, I suppose all this is the logical conclusion of several centuries of Christianity putting on as shitty of a face as it can muster, and expecting to keep people in through pure fear of eternal damnation alone.