Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

[Coventina]

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But predictions that the Christian right would be moribund with Gen Z-ers have proved false. In the aftermath of Covid — and amid the longing for purpose, community and transcendence that many Gen Z-ers feel — a sizable minority of them have found their answer in conservative Christianity, fueling both a religious and a political revival among these young Americans. They bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare.

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Many of these young Christians have turned to conservative politics — a near-seamless mix of Christian faith and the MAGA message. That mix was best demonstrated in speeches that wove political and religious themes at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk.

Gen Z is clouded by despair. It’s not hard to imagine how young people traumatized by the isolation imposed by Covid and disillusioned by the perceived emptiness of secular liberalism might be drawn to a relationship with God and a purpose in life. Many were attracted by Mr. Kirk’s message of confidence and joyfulness in his conservative Christian faith.

Some believe that they are in a spiritual war against “enemies” and that they can expect to be persecuted for their convictions from a hostile secular state or society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/gen-z-conservative-christianity.html?

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[CousinIT]

1. This is mostly Gen Z males, no?

I read that there is quite a divide between Gen Z males and females on this.

[Coventina]

4. Yes, further down in the article:

Young male churchgoers now outpace young female churchgoers in weekly attendance, and for the first time in modern American history, they are more religious than their female peers.

[lame54]

2. Are all Gen-Z'ers white?

[Coventina]

6. Not by any means, further down the article:

The nondenominational or charismatic church option is also appealing to some Black and Hispanic Gen Z Christians, who may shed their family’s traditional Democratic identity when they gravitate toward multiracial megachurches that are more politically conservative.

[lame54]

9. That's very disheartening

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Yes they enjoy their own paranoia and as youngsters are empty and easily hoodwinked

Bankrupting them with donations to conservative causes that worsen their condition might enable them to wake up in about 30 years - broke.

[NewHendoLib]

5. Ugh. Gross

[Skittles]

7. very disappointed young folk are still buying into these delusions

UGH

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. "A sizeable minority"

Specifically, a sizeable minority of white male Gen Z’s.

Not exactly what the headlines implies.

[msongs]

10. alternative for gen Zers - turn off your phones and do something useful for your fellow humans. nt

[LuvLoogie]

11. The leadership has allowed the MSM & PTB

to marginalize traditional Democratic theory and policy.

Our best champions for Democratic tradition and progress are considered the fringe of our party.

It is to our party's shame that we slept through the resurgence of these American cancers into a new ethnic cleansing, STILL compromising justice and liberty for all for lobbyist/donor-centered societal convenience.

We act as if we have little to offer the young. We write strongly-worded letters and plan for 2029 like some TEMU knock-off of a strategy.

We're on our own. Our leadership wants more 80-year-olds at the helm. My parents and grandparents are long dead.

Fucking hell.

[J_William_Ryan]

12. "...the perceived emptiness of secular liberalism..."

A false, wrongheaded perception.

There’s nothing ‘empty’ about living a life filled with discovery and learning, of remarkable advances in science and new revelations in the arts, humanities, history, and literature.

In fact, it’s secular liberalism that defends and supports democracy and our civil liberties – ensuring the right of each individual to self-determination.

Instead, they want to exist in a realm of willful ignorance hostile to facts and the truth, subject to the arrogance of failed religious dogma.

[walkingman]

13. I know this sounds simplistic but I honestly think many people are attracted to

an answer for most of their problems, and what better answer than a magical sky god that has the answer to your every problem?

[TheProle]

14. Easy answers to complex problems.

[misanthrope]

15. Because conservatism promotes an irrational certainty in an uncertain universe

Conservative thought is littered with black-and-white thinking that appeals to those beset by the realities of a complex existence. I get the appeal, it is just delusional in origin and practice.