It wouldn’t shock me if the recent drop was pandemic related, but “70% in 1999” really puts into context what a big social shift we’re living in.
I'm personally holding out for a resurgence, as people see how morally bankrupt our culture has become (e.g., the Emmys viewership dropped almost 50% this year), and how uninterested our elite are in doing anything substantial for the econimic underclass, aside from manipulate them for their own political ends.
That's kind of what freemasons, lions club, rotary and such are/were kind of like that. Social clubs. Unions sometimes played that kind of a role. Union meetings, barbeques, bars. Even personal identities tied into union memberships. A lot of organisations with names like "X society of Y" were actually "societies" at one point.
We are just far less affiliated than we used to be. Less church membership, probably less gang membership, social club affiliation, etc.
Paul told people to treat their wives like they were the Church, which lead to the end of tribes, the replacement of those large social/family groups with a more varied interest based group structure, which lead to more intermixing of ideas, the industrial revolution, and Western thought processes.
If so, that’d add credence to the argument that it’s not education itself that makes modern day students more liberal, it’s the educational environment that does it.
there is an anti-Christian slant in the education world.
IMO as soon as a religious organisation get's involved into politics it should lose it's tax exemptions and be treated the same way as any other lobby organisation.