Pretty freaking obvious

But don't say it couldn't be anticipated:

New research shows young Americans are dramatically less likely to go to church -- or to participate in any form of organized religion -- than their parents and grandparents.

"It's a huge change," says Harvard University professor Robert Putnam, who conducted the research.

Historically, the percentage of Americans who said they had no religious affiliation (pollsters refer to this group as the "nones") has been very small -- hovering between 5 percent and 10 percent. However, Putnam says the percentage of "nones" has now skyrocketed to between 30 percent and 40 percent among younger Americans...

This trend started in the 1990s and continues through today. It includes people in both Generation X and Y...

"Many of them are people who would otherwise be in church," Putnam said. "They have the same attitidues and values as people who are in church, but they grew up in a period in which being religious meant being politically conservative, especially on social issues."

Putnam says that in the past two decades, many young people began to view organized religion as a source of "intolerance and rigidity and doctrinaire political views," and therefore stopped going to church.

The prejudiced, priggish, hypocritical, bleating of the religious right has turned off the next generation of possible church goers.

As an agnostic, I'd like to thank them for their short-sighted, narrow-minded, stupidity while damning them for what they've wrought the last thirty years.