Posted on 04/05/2009 3:13:11 PM PDT by Steelfish
The End of Christian America
The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.
By Jon Meacham | NEWSWEEK
Published Apr 4, 2009
It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth—read over the document after its release in March, he was struck by a single sentence.
For a believer like Mohler—a starched, unflinchingly conservative Christian, steeped in the theology of his particular province of the faith, devoted to producing ministers who will preach the inerrancy of the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the only means to eternal life—the central news of the survey was troubling enough: the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent
It’s a strange self righteous yet defensive tone this liberal article takes. Liberals know somewhere they are wrong but they keep persecuting others and themselves nevertheless into their nonsense.
Note also the false charity tone of it all. They talk of CHristian domination but they hardly talk of other faiths as something they’d embrace, but as weird cults and poverties which seem to frighten them. To lop Christianity within these poorer religions is typical materialist lusty behavior for modern niceties: as if genetics persecuted them and blackmailed them to material submissions that allowed them to ignore their worst persecutions to neighbors and unborn.
Last but not least, faith for life is not an illusion, for illusion is a false life and a death by definition. They confuse faith and superstition because they seek superstitious means devoid of understanding of things like courage.
Liberals are nonconfrontational with their persecutors and preach “peace” suicide in their emotional and mental selfish cowardice. Thus they seek and hope to entreaty the fascists of the world who steal from us to provide them some crumbs.
This is Obama’s hope, that the Taleban reward him, for example, like a good butt boy loved. They depend on that murder suicide scheme.
A Christian is not doing politics when he sees a freeloading corrupt bureaucrate for what he is: someone who believes in “free money” and “free taxation” to anyone equaly so, regardless of contribution to society.
These scum quasiUnion feds who selectively enforce the law or benefit others are to be targeted. They encompass a bunch of pseudolawyers/cops who select the laws to apply. We have all the laws and means to avoid the current juggernaut of government in the form of a foreign manshurian fraudulent president, but guess what, they refuse to apply them, and they are brainwashing the youth to their sides.
Then, we will see the "true pucker factor," of the masses of nonbelievers.
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It’s always been easy to say, “Yes, I am a Christian”...but the more unpopular it gets to really be one, the harder it will be to find one. When the weather gets bad, the fair-weather “Christians” will disappear to their places of safety.
Well of course they forget the contributions of Christianity to western civilization from hospitals, the colleges and universities, labor laws, and philosophical thought on issues of “just war” and the link between God and man and his environment.
More generally see:
http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/0895260387
A lot of this destruction has occurred within the churches. Liberals have taken over one denomination after another. People have left the church they grew up in and have not found a new home. The Episcopal Church alone has lost half its membership while the population overall has soared. One denomination could account for several of those lost percentages. The Methodists and Presbyterians are hemorraghing because the people at the top are liberal committed to destroying the faith. The collapse of mainline Protestantism, in a word,is behind this decline. These churches stopped proclaiming the Gospel and stopped demanding anything of their members. So members left.
Article at:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583
Single page:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583/output/print
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