{"id":1698,"date":"2017-10-21T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:55:10","slug":"millenials-trade-in-religion-for-witchcraft-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Millenials trade in religion for witchcraft &#038; astrology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/\"> marketwatch<\/a> (How to make $$$ on the phenomenom?). Sign of the times?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09cf3760970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horoscope symbols\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09cf3760970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09cf3760970d-200wi\" style=\"width: 165px;\" title=\"Horoscope symbols\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-millennials-are-ditching-religion-for-witchcraft-and-astrology-2017-10-20\">Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSo many millennials read their horoscopes every day and believe them,\u201d Layne, who is involved in a number of nonreligious spiritual practices, said. \u201cIt is a good reference point to identify and place people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Interest in spirituality has been booming in recent years while interest in religion plummets, especially among millennials. The majority of Americans now believe it is <a class=\"icon \" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/10\/16\/a-growing-share-of-americans-say-its-not-necessary-to-believe-in-god-to-be-moral\/\" target=\"_new\">not necessary to believe in God<\/a> to have good morals, a study from Pew Research Center released Wednesday found. The percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 29 who \u201cnever doubt existence of God\u201d <a class=\"icon \" href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/values-questions\/q41d\/i-never-doubt-the-existence-of-god\/#total\" target=\"_new\">fell from 81% in 2007 to 67% in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Meanwhile, more than half of young adults in the U.S. <a class=\"icon \" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2014\/02\/11\/Majority-of-young-adults-think-astrology-is-a-science\/5201392135954\/\" target=\"_new\">believe astrology is a science<\/a>. compared to less than 8% of the Chinese public. The psychic services industry \u2014 which includes astrology, aura reading, mediumship, tarot-card reading and palmistry, among other metaphysical services \u2014 grew 2% between 2011 and 2016. It is now worth $2 billion annually, according to industry analysis firm IBIS World.<\/p>\n<p>More if you hit the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to marketwatch (How to make $$$ on the phenomenom?). Sign of the times? Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology \u201cSo many millennials read their horoscopes every day and believe them,\u201d Layne, who is involved in a number of nonreligious spiritual practices, said. \u201cIt is a good reference point to identify and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}