Certainly knowledge of the bible is on the decline.
My nephews and nieces and their friends think they’re too smart for God.
I felt that way once. Then after head injury I did hundreds of hours of reading about the brain and realized there MUST be a God. It is ABSURD how complex the brain is. Almost beyond reason.
But not believing in God doesn’t preclude you from voting republican
Even in my dark years when I did not believe I was till die hard republican.
Actually if you really believe this is IT and there is no afterlife, you should want repubs to protect you rom enemies foreign and domestic.
The great falling away may continue, but there will be a remnant who love the Lord their God with all their heart. Sad that so many feel compelled to chase hard after the wind.
I feel sorry for people who think that God isn't there. It means that they haven't used all the gifts they've been given to understand what's out there. Do they really think that all of this is an accident? That all of the beautifully interleaved complexities out there designed themselves?
Without God, there is no point for existence and without Christ, no way to be with God when all of this is over. We need to pray very hard for those sad souls who haven't found him yet.
1) Most of the decline is due to the death of older adherents to mainline Christianity, which attracts few converts because it avoids distinction or conflict. I'm talking about bland Catholic parishes and dioceses as well as bland Episcopalian, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc. congregations. For instance, how many young converts do the Congregationalists make?
2) Many of the same young people now showing up among the "unaffiliated" who wandered away from mainline blah-ness will show up in later as "Christian" as they get jobs and think about getting married.
3) The harder-core elements in Catholicism and Protestantism are growing, not shrinking. Their foot-print will continue to grow. In current American culture, they have enormous social and political vitality, and punch way above their weight as it is.
4) Seventy percent is a big majority. It's not a "working majority," but it's a huge one.
America without Christ will be worst nation ever.
NON Christians are being imported over the natural growth of Christianity
There's no way a nation that is essentially ONE faith, can LOSE that faith ... it must be conquered.
The Philippines is an excellent example of a Catholic nation being attacked by everything not Catholic .... and the tactic is not that MY religion is better than Catholic, but that the Catholic religion is bad
THAT'S what's happening in the Philippines right now (Iglesio ni Cristo ... the Church of Christ) and it's been the tactic since the Garden ...
YEA, HATH GOD SAID .... ?
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I think it is a combination of liberal moonbat college’s and supposedly christian churches not interpreting the bible as it is written....homosexuality and all other perversions and transgressions are now O K to a certain degree ...kids are submerged in this 60’s-70’s era crap daily...tune-in,turn-on,drop out...free love man....and humanists that are granering political power and influence over the republic....how anyone can go through life without accepting they are a sinner and to just accept it and remove the burden is beyond me..but, that’s why liberals are so angry and destructive they are selfish and unappreciative. Very simple to me.
The real question is how many tepid and passive individuals who called themselves Christians have finally thrown in the towel and given up on the pretense?
It’s the argument of quantity vs. quality. People who are Christians In Name Only do not help churches, but just drag them down in a relativistic mire.
Not a single church that has been doctrinally taken over by liberals has found a deeper expression of faith by doing so, except when the faithful have had enough and schism to found a new, real church.
In turn, the liberal churches become hollow shells, devoid of life, no longer forgiving sin but instead just justifying it. As such, they begin the long decline into irrelevance.
Rush just made a good point that the church membership may be declining among the churches that have gone over to the dark side with regard to homosexuality etc, but he is betting that the membership in churches that hold true to the Bible are probably remaining strong.
The media is just dancing a gig over this news. It seems to even be eclipsing the Baltimore anarchy.