The United States is still far more religious than any other first world country, but things are (slowly) changing. How will this impact society and elections in the future?
It is no coincidence that Obama announced his candidacy for president five years ago and each year more and more Americans have stepped away from their Christian faith.
And I guarantee that most of those a-religious people are liberals.
Yet 39 - 40 % of people attend church regularly according to numerous studies done recently (I had to research this issue myself an this is what the media is reporting. Obviously someone’s numbers are way off because 1 in 5 is 20% not 40%. if Obama or anyone connected to him issued these numbers I wouldn’t put too much stock in them.
Reason #44,319 that we homeschool. The public schools are breeding farms for atheists and God-haters of every stripe.
I read this on yahoo or nbc I forget. Very very sad. Whats worse is all the comments cheering the fact that less people are religious. The Lord and His son Jesus have brought so much (not physical stuff)to my life.
It scares me almost as much as an Obama second term.
The under-30 crowd is absolutely rudderless.
Let’s see ... We’ve had an ENORMOUS, almost BLOATED amount of “TV preachers”, come into existence in the 20th Century, starting with Reverend Ike, in NYC. From that moment on, ‘religion’ became a flourishing ‘business’, to the point that some churches could not exist, unless they had their 503C paperwork, on the office wall. We have good ol’ Hollywood, making movies from novels like, “Elmer Gantry”, or that one offbeat one with Andy Williams. We allowed obscenity to become a business, period. We allowed too many skunk preachers, to get too close to our kids, knowing that the legal system would protect them from those offended parents. We allowed politicians to come speak within the walls of our houses of worship. The ‘churchy’ community has never policed its own, when it came to pastors, elders, and lay people doing things unspeakable. They just prayed that ‘someday’ those would be caught, in their actions. The ones doing the actions knew full well, that the ‘churchy’ community hadn’t the guts to police their own, so they just went taking care of business.
And all the while this is, and was, going on, those that were supposed to ‘see the light’ through the examples and actions of some of the folks, really walking and talking the walk, were being blind-sided by the actions of those skunks.
My ex-wife, when she was still yet my fiance, was diddled in one of many such closed-office ‘counseling sessions’, by a retired New York State police member, who was also one of the 5 pastors of a megachurch on Long Island, at the time.
Moving from one town to another, the joke was made about my ‘weekly donation’ (call it what you will), was going to be terribly missed. At the time, I was making in excess of $45,000.00 a year.
Sure, we are all human. But, to bemoan the idea as presented in the posted article, you have to look at what is really going on. I lived it all, saw a lot, saw things that can’t be explained, saw things that I could explain too easily.
Bottom line: I’m Libertarian (mostly), and I cannot join any Sunday morning or Saturday morning group, because I can’t trust y’all, after all that I have witnessed.
Those people are building their lives on shifting sand. Their house will fall. So goes our country.
This is terrible news. Look at what happened to Europe when they walked away from the church....the void was filled by Islam.
Not having an affiliation is a bad thing, even for believing Christians. We need that church community to keep us from going off into some small corner of scripture and believing that the few verses we have latched onto are the center of God’s message. We need the traditions that have formed over generation of thoughtful and prayerful study to keep us on track.
are they Deists or Marxists?