If young adults are anything like this older adult, they just don't want to have to hear positive things about Trump from anybody.

He's just such a transparently blatant villain and ignoramus.

The moment somebody says that they like Trump, I lose all respect for them. And I just feel sad that this is the state of humanity. I don't like feeling that way, so I avoid places where I might come into contact with people like that.

Christianity = loving Trump

Not a great look

It's almost like he's antithetical to everything Christ ever preached or something.

Frankly I'm surprised more Christians don't reject him on that principle, but then, religion has never been based in logic.

The US is probably one of the furthest nations from actual "christian values".

I stopped going to church when the pastors started getting political.

If a church is telling you who to vote for they need to lose the tax free status, and operate under the rules of a business.

Evangelical / Prosperity Christianity is quite literally the creed of Mammon.

If there is a Hell (there's not), I'll be torturing them for eternity.

48% is a disturbingly low.

More context:

The Billy Graham Center Research Institute surveyed 2,365 Gen Z adults, ages 18-28. The study was funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Missing entirely is what percentage of those people ever considered going to church in the first place. I think we all know why that data is missing lol

I’m not religious in any way, shape, or form, but if I got a loaded survey like this about a politician I didn’t like, I’d be counted in the people saying they’re less likely to attend church because of said politician.

To be fair there are some actual christian churches that actually preach and try to do the things jesus preached. feed and cloth the poor and encourage the same in society. but then you have members who attend but are hypocrites sorta bringing them down. as an athiest I am actually a little more accepting of religion seeing the earnest ones who participate in protests.

I can thank Trump for being what pushed me to becoming an atheist. Trump is the antithesis of the kindness the bible attempts to preach, and seeing christians blindly follow him is what made me rethink everything.

The study was funded by the Lilly Endowment.

If any christian groups want to hand me absurd amounts of money for me to tell them why they're losing donations I can be found here on lemmy. I don't get out of bed for less than $10mil US, though.

TIL at least 48% of Adults don't go to church.

THANK YOU. Sometimes the view from the Southern US down here has me thinking every dude is obsessed with JC and the Holy Ghost crew.

Still, tho, were I a Christian I'd go to church and denounce the shits for the frauds they are. "this shit ain't christlike!"

So 52% of young adults did not come to that conclusion. Isn't that the real story here?

I was a "Christian" and that was good enough until these Christofascists showed their true colors, somewhere between Westboro and Tiki Torch Nazis. Now I want nothing to do with any religion but especially not Christianity.

By the standards of the faithful, their support of Trump does make it painfully obvious that the majority of "Christian" churches in the US preach values which are diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ.

Any genuine "follower of Christ" would not follow religious leaders or go to religious institutions who teach values such as "hate thy fellow man for not being born here", which are a lot closer to devil worship than to the values Christ preached.

Such "Christian" leaders and institutions having devil worshiping values also neatly explains their adoration of Mammom.

You don't need to be an Atheist to figure out that these "churches" aren't on the side of Good.

Probably the only good thing this shitstain pedo has ever done.

It has made me less likely to attend church.

The likelihood was already hovering at around 0%, but this has taken it from .0002% to .00000001%

Like everything else Trump gets involved in, he's toxic for the brand.

Anyone who becomes associated with MAGA is going to have serious problems being accepted into polite society when this is over. We aren't going to forget who you are, what you did, and what you wanted to do.

"Thou shat have no other gods before me!", I forget who said that. Was that trump?

Welp it is just nonsense

I'm not in the target demographic and I don't live in the US but i can confidently say that Trump didn't make me less likely to attend church. The probability was already 0% before he was ever a thing in politics.

Their values are bad sure, but does it not matter that they're also just wrong? does the truth not motivate people?