This is a New York Times article about young Americans who are throwing the god bullshit in the garbage.

New York Times - We’re Less and Less a Christian Nation

Perhaps for the first time since the United States was established, a majority of young adults here do not identify as Christian.

Only 49 percent of millennials consider themselves Christian, compared with 84 percent of Americans in their mid-70s or older, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

We don’t have good historical data, and the historians I consulted are wary of definitive historical comparisons. But something significant seems to be happening. The share of American adults who regard themselves as Christian has fallen by 12 percentage points in just the last decade.

“The U.S. is steadily becoming less Christian and less religiously observant,” the Pew study concluded.

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The rest of this post are some of the comments I read.

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Since the first European settlers arrived and began slaughtering the native peoples, Christianity has been a sham in this country, continuing up to the present period.

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I've always said that the greatest cause of atheism is exposure to American "Christians."

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You don't need to believe in a monotheistic deity to believe in honesty, ethical behavior, right vs. wrong, and the US Constitution. Our Founding Fathers knew that well.

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You might want to add that, science and rational thought play a role in rejecting imaginary beings, and superstitious ideas.

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I generally enjoy Kristof's columns, but now and again he reminds us that, most likely due to his parents and childhood environment, he believes in an organization whose relevance is based on fantasies allegedly "documented" hundreds of years after the supposed events took place. I doubt that he ever wonders if the entire Christian edifice is based on nothing more than a set of childish myths, but IMHO he would benefit from exploring that possibility.

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The least Christian, the least charitable, the least compassionate people I have ever met are Christians. Religion isn’t just hypocrisy it’s also obsolete.

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All religions are particularly well-suited to motivating violence against outsiders however defined. This is no less true of Christianity than any other of the world's religions. The folks that Kristof castigates - with good reason - are not outliers. It's absurd to argue that today's violent, vicious, bigoted Christians are a historical novelty or an American specialty that's come from nowhere to give Christianity a bad name. And it a very grave error, one which finds little support in the historical record, to believe that "faith is supposed to provide moral guidance." Morality provides moral guidance.

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From what I observe these days, religious believers are mainly people who enjoy being told what to think and do. This strikes me as being uniquely un-American, and it’s encouraging to think that their numbers are in decline.

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It's all for the good to be a less religious nation.