{"id":17324,"date":"2026-10-04T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17324"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:55:35","slug":"gen-z-is-one-of-the-most-religious-of-all-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17324","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z is one of the most religious of all generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gen Z is not supposed to be the religious generation. Pollsters have spent two decades describing this cohort as the most secular in American history, the one that would finally break the chain of belief passed down from their grandparents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Harris Poll data<\/a> suggests otherwise: 33% of Gen Z identifies as religious, compared with 18% of Boomers, 22% of Gen X and 19% of Millennials\u2014making Gen Z the most religious-identifying generation in the survey. Their \u201cneither religious nor spiritual\u201d rate, 19%, is the lowest of any generation measured, lower than Boomers at 23%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gen Z is not supposed to be the religious generation. Pollsters have spent two decades describing this cohort as the most secular in American history, the one that would finally break the chain of belief passed down from their grandparents. New Harris Poll data suggests otherwise: 33% of Gen Z identifies as religious, compared with 18% of Boomers, 22% of Gen X and 19% of Millennials\u2014making Gen Z the most religious-identifying generation in the survey. Their \u201cneither religious nor spiritual\u201d…<\/p>\n

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