Posted on 10/17/2019 10:14:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” now stands at 26%, up from 17% in 2009.
Both Protestantism and Catholicism are experiencing losses of population share. Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. And one-in-five adults (20%) are Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their numbers swell. Self-described atheists now account for 4% of U.S. adults, up modestly but significantly from 2% in 2009; agnostics make up 5% of U.S. adults, up from 3% a decade ago; and 17% of Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12% in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult population.
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And this bought-and-paid-for pope is a scumbag.
Didn’t he say those who make walls or live behind walls are criminals or something like that? Geez, isn’t the vatican surrounded by a giant wall?
“That’s a Smith & Wesson. And you’ve had your six.”
“Pew! Pew!!”
(sorry, couldn’t resist. just something about things Pew)
They are talking about the decline in the denominations that have been taken over by homosexuals. This is basically all the phony mainline Christians being gathered up and burned like weeds, as the Bible puts it.
Bible-believing Christians who remain true to Christ are growing, although looking at persecution and having to go underground if the Democrats take power.
Meanwhile problems mount at a rapid pace.......
I heard this mentioned in the Bible as “The great falling away”.
But your divorce lawyer worked for free, right?
Anecdotally, I see a lot of people returning to the faith in “trad” circles, just not through Churchianity or SJW converged denominations. Mostly Ortho. Also, stop importing 3rd world non-Christians.
Because we are tools God uses to effectuate his will. Evangelism sanctifies the save as well as regenerates the lost. God is very efficient.
How what works?
If he wanted everyone then everyone would be saved. God is sovereign. God chooses you, you don't chose God.
We are free to do whatever we want to do but not what we ought to do.
Just as prophesied.
If you want to get into it, I can show that this is exactly what God say.
Maybe people are being more honest now.
John 6:66
“After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.”
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