‘OK millennial’: Don’t blame the boomers for decline of religion in America

From AP and Religion News Service: “It was the millennials, not the boomers, who walked away from church. I think it’s entirely fair to say that Generation X represents the last generation raised with traditional American religion.”

Examining the data from the General Social Survey, it turns out it’s not the baby boomers who were the last vestige of a highly religious, very Christian era of American history. Instead, Generation X — born between 1965 and the early ’80s — is the last to come of age and even perpetuate an overwhelmingly Christian and largely devout religious landscape in terms of church attendance and beliefs about God.