Mods, please allow this to remain in News. I posted it here as more a commentary on societal decline as opposed to a specific religion topic. Title was shortened for posting rules.
I didn’t attend church for 10 - 15 years after I left home....Glad I didn’t die in the dessert.
The left is so pleased with themselves. Russia tried to stamp out religion.
I am not worried.
Of the 18%, what is the breakdown by religion and denomination?
Logical fallacy. Going to Church does not equal being saved or having faith. Fact is the Churches many of them are secular driving away the religious.
Evangelical is growing. Fundamental churches are growing, sodomite/abortion supporting churches are dying.
There's a bit of a danger in viewing "religion" as a sociological matter which is subject to semi-scientific analysis.
It ignores the work of the Spirit and the ongoing cosmic battle that is taking place.
It may not be possible to fully understand what's happening in religious life by reason alone.
This part of End Time prophecy. There will a great falling away from the church.
I pray alot of people come back to the Lord before it’s too late.
I live in a suburb, in liberal MA. There are four churches in our town: Catholic, Episcopal, Congregationalist, and Jewish.
Sunday morning at 10 AM I could rob most houses in my town. The churches are packed.
But we are also mostly married, professional, and our school system produces doctors, generals, and people at the top of their professions.
Religion and morals are the basis for our community. We are successful. Are we successful because of religion? Or are we religious because we understand that there is a power greater than us making us successful.
Dying out?
It’s getting MURDERED.
There is a decades-long WAR on Christianity, with the goal being the everlasting expansion of Government.
If you don’t go for the Big G, you’ll go with the Little g...
Our systems of mass indoctrination, movies, TV, newspapers, and education have not been Christian friendly. It takes a toll.
I’m sad that the number is so low. In Steubenville, we have a large family presence. We’re fortunate that most of the families with which we attend Mass keep kids in pews and without juice/Cheerios/coloring books,. It’s easier to train my little ones without a parent offering us juice boxes. The cry room is also seldom used. As for the older attendees, they are the ones making faces and waving at my kids behind our backs when we hold them lol!
Indeed, there will be a great falling away before Christ returns, however we don't know when that time will come. Until then, pray for Revival. We need the Bread from Heaven.
As long as most Christianity offered to young men remains this effeminate the attendance will continue to decline.
Religion will be back.
I’m OK with that.
Whether I die or get raptured, I got a good deal.
We can’t all leave at once, what if God held a Tribulation and nobody was still here?
Bring it on.
I wonder if the late 1960’s was the time our country turned away from God and spirituality.
The 1970’s was probably the most decadent and irreligious time in America. Until the recent years.
I did not leave the “church”, the “church” left me and so that is why we now worship at home every Sabbath.
Rejoice, Christians! This may be “the great falling away,” which is one of the signs that Jesus is coming soon to take his followers home. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.
I have a question.
Does this study claim in it’s
findings, that not attending
a church, defines one as less
of an American, than one that
does?
Of the last two churches I attended, one on Long Island, NY, and the other in Portland, Oregon, in order, the former had a pastor on staff that counseled the single eligible women behind closed doors, and the latter had a pastor who thought my writing science fiction works for publication were nothing but witchcraft.
82% are fools.
Christianity has ebbed and flowed throughout the centuries with believers increasing and decreasing but has nevered died out. It was the same with the Jews in the Old Testament when many unbelieving kings (like King Ahab) ruled.
It doesn’t mean that God does not exist or is not working. It simply means that people don’t want anything to do with Him. There is always a price to be paid for rebellion against love.