Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) / X

Ryan Burge 📊

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Ryan Burge 📊

@ryanburge

Teach: @CtrRelPol | Research: @myfaithcounts | Books: The Nones, Great Dechurching, Vanishing Church | Former Pastor: @AmericanBaptist | Graphs about Religion

Mount Vernon, IL

Joined May 2008

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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Jul 30, 2025
Some personal news. Starting August 1, I will be joining the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at WashU (@CtrRelPol) as a Professor of Practice. I think it's a perfect step for my career as Senator Danforth envisioned the Center to be a place for public engagement
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Oct 31, 2024
For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today. It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall. The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality. He immediately shuts it down. "No ma'am. He's a decent family man."
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Oct 30, 2025
Yeah, so this isn't true.
Benjamin Michael
@RealBenMichael
Oct 30, 2025
Idk if ya’ll realize how unprecedented this is. This has NEVER happened in the history of the modern world.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Jan 28, 2024
The finding that young women are becoming a lot more liberal while young men are becoming a lot more conservative DOES NOT REPLICATE in the Cooperative Election Study. In fact, the two lines have run in almost perfect parallel for the last 15 years.
John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch
Jan 26, 2024
NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Jul 2, 2021
In 2018 - "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it." Silent: 70% Boomers: 59% Gen X: 62% But, look at this huge gap between Gen X and Millennials. Millennials: 44% Gen Z: 33% The decline for Gen Z is staggering, too. 49% in 2014 39% in 2016 33% in 2018.
Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Sep 28, 2025
Just wanted to say that Latter-day Saints have always been big supporters of my work. And I've always been big fans of theirs. They are the most kind, generous, family and community oriented people I've ever met. They didn't deserve this. No one deserves this.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Jul 11, 2024
Here's substance use by high school seniors in 1976: Alcohol - 92% Cigarettes - 76% Marijuana - 64% Substance use in 2021- Alcohol - 53%. Down 39 points Cigarettes - 17%. Down 59 points. Marijuana - 38%. Down 26 points.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Apr 27, 2024
For decades, social science has 'known' that women are more religious than men. However, if you track the religiosity of young adults - something really interesting happened. Women are more likely to claim no religious affiliation than men. It started around 2016.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Mar 23, 2025
The people who are most likely to identify as non religious are folks who didn't finish high school. The least likely are those who have earned master's degrees.
Mia K.
@miakhalifa
Mar 23, 2025
becoming hyper-religious in adulthood is a sign of low intelligence, not enlightenment
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Nov 20, 2024
Tony Campolo passed away today. He was 89 years old. He was one of the most gifted preachers I have ever heard. If you have a few minutes, listen to him tell the story of throwing a birthday party for a prostitute in Hawaii. It's worth your time.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Jan 4, 2024
It's objective true that Joe Biden is the most religiously active President we've had in generations. In late 2023, Biden had attended Mass 100 times. That's more than Carter and W. Bush combined. We forget how rare church going is among American presidents.
McKay Coppins
@mckaycoppins
Jan 4, 2024
Incredible: 64% of Republicans say Donald Trump is a "person of faith." Only 34% say Mitt Romney is. deseret.com/2024/1/3/23982…
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Feb 20, 2025
Older Catholic priests are way more willing to conduct a wedding for a same-sex couple than younger ones. Among those born before 1950, 61% would do so. It was 19% among those born in 1970 or later.
Joel Denney
@joel_denney
Feb 20, 2025
Replying to @ryanburge
Is there a breakdown by age of each denomination? Specifically wondering about old vs young Catholic priests.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Jan 18, 2025
At some point I'm going to write a book called, You Should Go to Church Even If You Don't Believe In Any of It. From a purely pro-social, pro-democracy perspective, attending a house of worship regularly is a very good thing.
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Ryan Burge 📊
@ryanburge
Aug 22, 2025
In the United States, highly educated people are more religiously active than those with the lowest level of education. In Europe, it's the opposite.
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