Interesting. I taught Religious Education for 14 years, and over that time I noticed children became less reflexively anti-religious; they weren't any more *interested* in religion, but they were less likely to have an instinctive negative reaction to it in 2015 than in 2005
https://twitter.com/kayaburgess/status/1343538644540395520
That's purely my anecdotal experience, of course, but I suspect it's to do with receding parental pressure. Children kick against their parents, so as parents become less religious, so children are less likely to aggressively reject religion
The other phenomenon I noticed in my teaching career was that, by the time I gave up teaching in 2016, Christianity had become a more or less acceptable alternative way for teenagers to define themselves as eccentric
Being a Christian was still very weird, but it no longer seemed to be automatically 'uncool' in the way it once was. Other children were puzzled and nonplussed by believers in their midst rather than actively hostile to them
But again, that's only anecdotal experience and others may have a completely different experience
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