Objective research about religion from UC Berkeley?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
it tracks with results from other surveys. America is becoming a secular country. Sticking our head in the sand won’t help.
I understand what you are saying; still, I must set aside the propagandistic aspect of anything coming out of Berkeley.
To illustrate: if the Democrat Party lost a dozen points in membership, the headline would not read: "America is becoming a Republican country." Perhaps America would be a more independent country, or many other things; to the left, however, any bleeding away from traditional forms of religion or politics signals not a new form of the same set of beliefs, but rather their elimination. They simply cannot imagine that their utopian dreams are unrealistic, unworkable and have failed everywhere they have been tried, and will fail here; although at great cost.
As for secularization: yes, achieving it has been one of the chief battering rams of the communist/anti-God "progressive" movement, which in the sweep of time will be correctly recognized as thoroughly regressive in society. The ACLU, SPLC, CAIR and other satanic organizations have used the courts to disarm and bewilder those who understand, accept and want to uphold our Bill of Rights and Natural Law. But the wonderful thing about Nature is that Nature's God keeps supplying new, natural beings who are born in His image and likeness, and who naturally want Natural Law, unless they have been perverted by abuse, and sometimes even if they have.
Wait and see. God is still in charge, regardless of what the triumphalist propagandists think they have achieved.