Posted on 09/26/2009 1:34:33 PM PDT by IbJensen
HARTFORD, CT - A new report finds that American adults who claim no religious affiliation increased from 14 million in 1990 to 34 million in 2008.
The new profile of America's "No Religion Population" takes a deeper look at data collected for the American Religious Identification Survey 2008, which was released by Trinity College.
The new report says those who don't claim any religious affiliation are more likely to be male, young, living in the West and politically independent.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Americans had better get right with their Maker. Eternity is, after all, forever.
The Muslims will outnumber us!
WEll, I don’t have a religious affiliation, but I don’t anticipate becoming Muslim any tme soon.
Most Americans are right with their maker, its the institutions that are off track.
I think organized religion has been looking a lot like out spineless GOP lately. Between the we really don’t like to talk about the consequences of ignoring the 10 commandments to the outright denying of the bible, its hard for an American to say they belong to a specific church or sect.
Maybe it’s time for some of the churches to get right with their maker and quit bending over for every liberal idea out there.
Oh well, the Muslims will want them dead, too, if they don’t convert.
"let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."(2Th 2:3)
We have been building to a time where the majority of folks that warm the pews became so weak in their faith(if they every had any to begin with!)that the least tremor of hardship and suffering would drive them out. Count your blessings if you are not one of them because Jesus is right around the corner! This is one of the major signs that He said to watch for. The next big event is "the Son of Perdition" being revealed.
“We don’t have to be in a “group” to worship our God...we can do it privately, and independently, and still go to heaven just as fast.
Only weak people need “groups” to survive.”
Hence all the vaunted models in Scripture and church history of solitary Christianity?
John Lennon, mission accomplished. Yoko must be proud, and was quoted as saying “Aiiiiiiyyyyyyeeeeeeeeiiiiiiyyyyyeeeee”
Could it be that they are just not associating with a denomination rather than being unbelievers? The mainstream Protestant churches, at least on a national level, have been criticizing white males for years. Maybe they don’t want to go to church and be blamed for everything.
To quote Don Williams - “Well I don’t believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.”
The can want it all they like, but this atheist is well armed...
Whether people are 'right with their maker' has nothing to do with church attendance or with your insistence.
God doesn't hide out in your little sanctuary.
-- 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return.
http://www.sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc02/newsroom/newspage.asp?ID=261
OTOH, there is Paul’s recommendation to the Hebrew Christians:
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Screw religion, it’s killed millions. I resent the fact that because I have no religion you people think I will become Muslim, or that I don’t know the difference between oppression and freedom.
Not at my Catholic Church.
Growing like wildfire!
I’m not weak in my faith! I earnestly study the Bible and the principles of Judeo-Christian beliefs.
It’s just that I refuse to become involved in organized religion.
Nice belief, Don. Be a bummer if God doesn't agree.
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