Yesterday, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the results of a survey finding that “the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today.”
Those findings were quite alarming to CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, who brought Ralph Reed on to his program yesterday to reassure him that the numbers were not really as bad as they looked. After Reed speculated that the rise in young people claiming no religious affiliation would begin to reverse itself once those young people got married and had children, Kudlow warned that they should not be downplaying the rise in secularism because secularism “is not good for this country, there’s too much of it, [and] it’s proclaimed too loudly in the mainstream media” before declaring that “a faith-based life has got to be a more rewarding, fulfilling, and better life”:
