Secularism

“The percentage of Americans who say religion is ‘very important’ in their lives has leveled off at 47% in 2025. (It’s been up or down 1 percentage point since 2021.) Religious service attendance reveals a picture of steady decline. A majority of U.S. residents—57%—say they rarely or never attend religious services.” - RNS

“In his excellent and comprehensive Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History, Thomas Albert Howard…. makes a very strong case that violence and cruelty are in fact more typical of secular states and movements than religious ones.” - Providence

“In an Aug. 8 letter, the Secular Coalition for America and 18 allied organizations urged the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to rescind its new guidelines for religious expression in government workplaces.” - RNS

“…in response to Cultural Christians, Lewis would claim that while good-intentioned, the Cultural Christianity movement misses the point of Christ’s message. Those who want Christian Ethics without the Christian faith have turned Jesus into a mere moral teacher, another Historical Jesus, divorced from the Gospel.” - Juicy Ecumenism

“Perhaps Solzhenitsyn was right in his Harvard address, that the Communist East and the Capitalist West were fundamentally the same–deeply materialistic at their core. If this is true, then this resurgent interest in religiosity or spirituality is simply a thin veneer that, when scratched, reveals the same old materialism and secularism.” - Mere Orthodoxy

“Brierley thinks this ‘wider turning of the secular tide in the West,’ is a result of secularism’s failed predictions. A couple decades ago, the New Atheists promised a rational utopia in the wake of religious decline. Instead, we got a crisis of meaning” - Breakpoint

“The growth of spiritual secularism, or secular spiritualism, does not disprove the secularization thesis, but it does reframe it.” - Breakpoint

“Many of his readers will feel stretched by the high strangeness of the stories he tells as well as the spiritual medicine he prescribes. But in my view, time has largely vindicated the central theses of his last two books, and this ought to earn him a more generous—which is not to say uncritical—reading.” - Mere Orthodoxy

“we asked individuals whether they ‘conceal their religious beliefs at work for fear of others’ perceptions.’ Nineteen percent of Jewish workers, 51% of Hindus, 29% of Muslims and 28% of Buddhists said they did….

“Is there a rising number of non-religious Republicans that are going to take the party in a less socially conservative direction? Let’s see what the data has to say about that.” - Ryan Burge