Posted on 05/14/2015 6:53:17 AM PDT by Biggirl
On Tuesday, Pew Research released a new study finding a radical increase in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans. That increase correlated strongly with the decrease in the number of Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical Protestants over the past seven years.
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That’s not what’s described int he survey, which indicates, rather, in increase in the outright numbers of the religiously unaffiliated, correlating strongly with a decrease of numbers of the affiliated.
There is that.I agree.
“Messiah” == “Annointed One”.
Bam-Bam may be annointed with some substance, but it wasn’t oil ... and wasn’t done in the Name of The Lord.
Christianity is burgeoning outside of Europe and the USA. Registering big increases in Africa, even in the teeth of horrendous persecution by Boko Haram and the rest of the assassins.
bob_denard
Since May 6, 2015
Sorry to hear of your unsatisfactory experience in various churches. I do not, however, think that justifies sweeping negative generalizations of all churches, where you can find some of the most sincere and most generous people in America.
American centric as apple pie, Chevrolet and coca cola.
Yeah that is such a common error. Let’s also include “time” with “space”. Many people are hugely ego centric about the bible.
This is true in its way; in another way, the Faith is being united with a vast body of believers. St. Paul says we are all members of the one Body of Christ. Like the cells, organs, systems, senses, hands and feet of Christ, we all rejoice together, suffer together, work together, love together. This is what it means to be "in Christ."
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Membership in an organized Christian church is not necessarily indicative of an individuals relationship with Jesus. In fact, over time church membership has less to do with a relationship with Jesus and the need for repentance than it ever has in our nation’s history.
Any church that promotes a slavish devotion to Romans 13 or a church with pastors on the clergy response team are to be avoided like the devil.
Can you better explain it please. Thank-you!
Oh why can’t some understand the simplicity of a few choice words, like referencing the stockmarket movement! A market moves up & down for a host of reasons hence it’s pointless to sweat the details or in layman’s terms “change is constant”! The church may of been oversold at its peak, now the correction? Islam the fastest growing... next its own bubble to explode? Have a larger view before jumping.
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Romans 13:1
It is thought that this manipulation of Romans 13 is designed to force compliance to government edicts upon religious congregants who might not otherwise comply. Certainly all governments are not established by God. Were the governments of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, all ordained by God? What about George the III? Most people in the independent media think that this is the extent of the threat posed by the existence of the Clergy Response Teams.
I agree their gripe is with the human made institutions.
God is everything but this and something inside them(Thought Adjusters) is telling them *No, follow me*.
My dad makes the cassocks for priests for over 50 years. I know this God of which everyone speaks,,,,,,he is my Father!
I think this Pope will be around for at least two more years, once he reaches 80, look for him to step down.
I miss John Paul.
I was responding to bob_denard, ... not to you. My sincere apologies for not specifying that.
If people are leaving churches its not because of a lack of faith in God but a lack of faith in the churches themselves.
As a conservative, “o”rthodox, traditional Catholic, I am closer to Evangelicals with regard to moral issues that are political issues than I am to many of the Catholics on the left who care little for dogma.
> Look around you. Is this really what you see?
In my personal experience? Yes. According to the MSM, No.
I live outside of Tucson and there there are churches everywhere, all denominations, and the Catholic and Christian schools are very popular. On Sunday morning, the streets are quiet but the parking lots of the churches are filled. God is Lord for a great many people in Southern Arizona, except for the commies in Tucson proper.
Good post!
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