Why Did America Lose Its Religion? Thank the Internet.

[Igel]

11. Nah. More like the coming of age of the Boomers' kids.

And the next gen after that.

The rise began before the Internet was a thing. The graph can easily be taken to mean not that the population overall was affected, but the youngest was affected by the Internet to become non-religious. Which means it was the youngest who were already the offspring of pretty much the least religious group, and the group most likely to carry something like "residual religion."

Note that the claim has to be that the Internet, starting in the early '90s, spread enlightenment. That's hardly the case; mostly what it allowed was the eventual fractionating of society. The religious are in their little drop of society; another group is in their little drop of society. And each think it encompasses the world. How 1677-referential.