Posted on 08/29/2019 12:55:37 PM PDT by ammodotcom
Church attendance in the United States is at an all-time low, according to a Gallup poll released in April 2019. This decline has not been a steady one. Indeed, over the last 20 years, church attendance has fallen by 20 percent. This might not sound like cause for concern off the bat. And if you’re not a person of faith, you might rightly wonder why you would care about such a thing.
Church attendance is simply a measure of something deeper: social cohesion.
It is our position that civil society – those elements of society which exist independently of big government and big business – are essential to a functioning and free society. What’s more, these institutions are in rapid decline in the United States, and have been for over 50 years.
Continue reading Bowling Alone: How Washington Has Helped Destroy American Civil Society and Family Life at Ammo.com.
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These are signs of impending tyranny. Our article on "bowling alone" discusses how Washington has helped destroy American civil society and family life, and the solution to avoiding it. Read the full article here: https://ammo.com/articles/bowling-alone-washington-destroy-american-civil-society-family
When I bowl alone I prefer to be by myself.
Take the skinheads bowling.
This article is stealing its title from an important book that was published almost 20 years ago. The problems in play were already in full-swing even then.
The clergy is much to blame. There was another article about this posted earlier.
The leftward drift of the clergy coupled with the Catholic Church’s moral collapse has chased people away.
George Thorogood fan I presume?
If I had to take a guess.....the Age of the Gentiles comes to an end (the fall of the USA by implication and Israel becomes center stage once again, and we are marching down that road.
I'd buckle your chin strap and find a church that teaches NT Christianity. Without all the fanfare. Somewhere along the RC Sproul/MacArther/Matt Chandler vein.
I’ve lived in communist countries. Bowling leagues don’t exist, gardening societies don’t exist, churches certainly do NOT exist. Anything that is organized or binds people together outside the control of state is absolutely forbidden.
You know, in American civil society, it’s considered to be impolite to post only an excerpt from your own blog.
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In one of my many “wouldn’t it be nice”, (uh ooh), has been using effigies of congress critters as bowling pins facing a bronze 6-pounder, with the real folks tied up, out of the way, being peltted with last week’s over ripe produce.
If I bowl alone, do I get to give myself practice frames?.................
You can’t have any groups of like-minded individuals, otherwise the “diversity police” will step in.
Winner, I believe - that was my first thought too
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And don’t count on a rapture to miss out on all the ‘fun’, too... the Varsity stays on the field after kickoff.
Bowling Alone studied the breakdown in social cohesion caused by too much diversity. And maybe the biggest engine driving that increase in diversity and the cultural breakdown has the been massive legal migration from the third world that began in 1965. California is the prime example.
sort of like blogging alone...
my opinion piece at my blog... beingalonealone.net
The Rapture is so close you can almost hear the footsteps of the Messiah. Maranatha.
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