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Let's also consider the fact that LDS women were less selective in the past; many would settle for Mr. Not So Active. Liberal women were willing to marry conservative men, and conservative women were willing to marry liberal men. However, that's not the case anymore. These days, liberal women will n...

UT is somewhat similar to Montana; both are conservative states and have approximately the same percentage of Christians and the same percentage of religiously unaffiliated individuals, according to Pew. Both have a large majority of white residents. However, their fertility rates differ: 54.8 for M...

Why, because the religious people would see this and magically stop reproducing? Check this out. In 2021, there were 5,798 more children born in Utah than in Oregon. However, Oregon is more racially diverse than Utah and has about a million more people. So, how can this be? https://worldpopulationr...

You’re conflating a lot of variables. Again the largest one is wealth: In an article published in Nature, Myrskylä et al. pointed out that "unprecedented increases" in social and economic development in the 20th century had been accompanied by considerable declines in population growth rates and fe...

I was focusing on the point. People reason in circles when they express deeply held beliefs, such as beliefs about God or the Bible; beliefs they have difficulty justifying or even comprehending objectively. That's BS, man. I wasn't engaging in circular reasoning. You seem to engage in confirmation...

Consider the source of those statistics you cited. It's just a collection of static images from conservative think tank, with no references to any paper, author, or details on their statistical analysis. I trust their website about as much as I trust Interpreter Foundation's. Regardless, it is true...

This will drive the majority of demographic change in the future. We can fairly easily provide cheap internet access to these people, and empower them to become informed voters and not spiral into pseudoscience, propaganda, and misinformation traps. Maybe, but Trump may end up winning again, he has...

Basically, if you think we need to outbreed the religious, you’re probably going down a dark path. Not necessarily outbreeding the religious, but secular people need to have more kids so they won't get replaced by religious people in the future. According to an article I read, a few decades ago the...

You have to be pretty negative to believe you can’t coexist with religious people as an atheist. Take abortion, for example. I do believe it’s an area where religious opinions are being forced on non-religious citizens. But the solution is not to get rid of religion, it’s to make the religious more...

We all know that the growth rate of the LDS Church is no longer accelerating, and it's shrinking in a number of regions. However, it's unclear if this trend will continue in the following decades. Unfortunately, conservatives are having more kids than liberals, and we know a "traditional" family is ...