Jenny Holland

And the numbers aren't huge.

19% of Gen Z identifies Protestant and 21% identify as Catholic.

So the numbers aren't vast.

But as the article is, it pains to state, and I agree with, it is a historic and unprecedented shift because of America, the United States' longstanding association with sort of Anglican, sort of mainline Protestant belief.

And Catholics really only started to play a role in the country in the 19th century with the arrival of immigrants from Europe and then later with many from Latin America.

But it was always seen as very much the sort of secondary and sometimes the sort of weird and, you know,

don't go there religion among certainly elites.

So, so, so interesting.

And again, not surprising that the article sort of is quite polite and attributes this phenomenon to what they call fragmentation.

And I, you know, maybe they're referring to the many different denominations and sort of proliferation of, of churches in, in Protestantism.

but also internal polarization.

And I could be wrong, but I'm reading that as meaning that the Protestant churches, many of them, the big ones, went woke and got broke.

I think now...

Sort of, you know, everyone from sort of Unitarians, I think even the Presbyterians.

I mean, a lot of these big established churches are now forever indelibly associated with drag queens in church services and pride flags hanging from altars.

St.

John the Divine on the Upper West Side of Manhattan has the pride progress flag hanging.

which includes all the different sort of trans and queer identities.

That's a stain that cannot be washed away.

That's such a crisis.