Friday, 8 November 2024

Are Nones a Religion?


I'm reading a résumé from French FSSPX News.

Catholics are c. 25 % of the voters, voted 56 % Trump, 40 % Harris.
Protestants are c. 40 % of the voters, voted 60 % Trump.
Nones are c. 20 % of the voters, voted 75 % Harris.

I think there are definite cultural trends, some of them fairly new, that have been spreading through the Nones.

If Nones were just outsiders to religions on an individual basis, had no community of their own, this would not be the case.

But if Bill Nye and Neil de Grasse Tyson are in a position to act as Popes of the community and have spread this kind of thing, well, that's much more explicable.

Now, I'll admit that Nones are not an organised religion, or they don't fulfil one of the criteria. Neither were the very different Jesus People. Neither is New Age. You didn't and don't join by formal applications and with informed consent to formal requirements of membership. You join sth much more nebulous because that's what you feel like, it resonates with you and ... if it doesn't resonate with you tomorrow, when you see another aspect, unless you have long been part of the team, people are not really all that likely to notice. OK, there are some guys, if you have been part of the team, who will probably think of you as an apostate, and act accordingly, I think this has been both seen in the case of New Age and in the case of Feminism, which is one of the more core communities of Nones.

But still, there is sufficiently much of a cohesive community to make them show up a more unified vote than either Catholics or Protestants.

"Atheism is a religion, like bald is a hair colour" ... welcome back to reality!/HGL

PS, there was one already recognised religion which actually did show just a bit more cohesion than Nones. "Born Again" were voting 80 % (five percent units more) for Trump. They were c. 20 % of the overall voters, like Nones, and so c. half of the Protestants. If we have 25 % Catholics, 40 % Protestants, 20 % Nones, adding up to 85 %, I'm not sure what the remaining 15 % are, but they are too few to be counting the "Born Again" as separate from Protestants. They would instead include Jews, Muslims, Hindoos, Buddhists, but not sure how much more and also not sure in what proportions./HGL

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