When it comes to worrying about cultural suicide, who worries more than the Jews? Nobody, right? We’ve cornered the market on anxiety, we lead the league in angst, and we’ve even cultivated our worries into a comic art form.

Who could match us? Nobody, it’s always seemed. Except, in the modern context, here come the gentiles, who have worries nobody would have imagined just a little while ago.

So mazel tov to us both.

Or to be a little clearer about all of this, where in the name of God are people of religious faith going? Away from their former houses of worship, that’s where.

The Jews have talked about this for years.

We worry about the high rate of intermarriage. We worry about our synagogues merging to stave off shrinking memberships. We worry about once-overflowing Hebrew school classrooms that are now filled with empty desks.

But there are new poll numbers about Christianity in America to which the Jews declare, “Welcome to our world.”

As the Pew Research Center reported in October, “The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip.”

Over the last decade, the number of American adults describing themselves as Christian has dropped from 77 to 65 percent. Meanwhile, the number of those who call themselves atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has gone from 17 to 26 percent.

Among young people, the numbers are particularly stark. About 36 percent of Americans 18-34 say they never attend religious services. That number has roughly doubled over the last 15 years.

These figures are particularly striking among whites. Forty years ago, according to the Public Religion Research Institute, about 80 percent of Americans were white Christians.

That figure is now in the mid-40s.

Some of this reflects cultural history, and some of it is politics. Catholics, for example, have dealt with years of sexual scandal within the clergy while church leaders ignored it. Many parishioners have walked away.

Evangelicals, meanwhile, voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump, and continue to support him. But this has cost them young worshippers, who know hypocrisy when they see it. As Michael Gerson wrote in the Washington Post last month,

“Now, evangelical Christians are naked before the world. Trump’s cruelty (see the treatment of migrant children), his bigotry (see Charlottesville), his obstruction of justice (see any fair reading of the Mueller report), his vanity (see any time he speaks in public), his serial deception (see also any time he speaks in public) have become more pronounced and unrepentant over time.”

But there’s also intellectual evolution at work here. We’re now two decades into the 21st century, and ever more distant from religious roots, whatever our religion.

The Hebrew Bible was written by men living in tents. They were smart men and remarkably sophisticated for their time, but their time was thousands of years ago. They were groping about in the dark to explain the inexplicable.

And the Christian Bible gospels were written decades after the death of Jesus by men who never knew him and had no written records on which to base their narratives since there are no known writings contemporaneous with Jesus’ actual life.

Carl Sagan, the late professor of astronomy, searched for answers as often as any of us. “Religion,” he wrote, “frequently asks us to believe without question. … Indeed, this is the central meaning of faith. [But] science asks us to take nothing on faith, to be wary of our penchant for self-deception, to reject anecdotal evidence. Science considers deep skepticism a prime virtue. Religion often sees it as a barrier to enlightenment.”

Where does God figure in all this modern skepticism?

In his book, “The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors,” Reeve Robert Brenner quoted an anonymous survivor of the Shoah declaring, “I call myself an atheist, although I know deep in my heart that God exists. It is just that I refuse to give Him the satisfaction of knowing it.”

Or to put it another way, some of us don’t believe in God — and hope He won’t hold it against us.

A former Baltimore Sun columnist and WJZ-TV commentator, Michael Olesker is the author of six books. His most recent, “Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age,” was reissued in paperback by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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