Posted on 04/09/2019 1:54:44 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
For the first time in history, atheists constitute the largest religious group in America. According to the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who have no religion has increased 266% over the past three decades and now account for 23.1% of the population, just barely edging out Catholics and Evangelicals as the nation’s dominant faith. Mainline Protestant churches have suffered the greatest collapse, declining 62.5% since 1982 and now comprising just 10.8% of the U.S. population.
As religiosity has declined, social ills have abounded. Nearly one in five American adults suffers from anxiety disorders, which now constitute the most common mental illness in the country. One in six Americans takes antidepressant drugs, a 65% surge over just 15 years. The problem is particularly acute among younger Americans. While depression diagnoses have increased 33% since 2013, that number is up 47% among Millennials and 63% among teenagers. Coincidentally, suicide rates among American teenagers have increased by 70% since 2006. American life expectancy declined again last year, as Americans continue to drug and kill themselves at record rates.
Social scientists have long since established the link between religiosity and life satisfaction. As social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky observes, people who attend religious services several times each week are nearly twice as likely as those who worship less than once a month to describe themselves as “very happy.” Such psychologists simply state the obvious: the belief that God loves you and that you will live with him in eternity offers greater consolation than the view of death as a dirt nap that stiffens you into worm food.
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And we wonder why socialism has taken flight.
End Times Ping
Let me know if you want on or off of the list.
Luke 18:8 is an appropriate scripture for these times.
Read with a grain of salt. Mainline denominations have just rebranded themselves, properly, as atheists.
I prefer admitted atheists to sanctimonious fake Christians like Mayor Booty-Judge.
10% is probably a very accurate percentage of what real Saved-by-the-Blood of Christ Christians comprise in this nation now.
It might even be a generous estimate.
This assertion is a bit deceptive. If you’re going divide religion in general and Christianity specifically into sects, you ought to do the same with atheism. I’m sure there are a lot of flavors of atheist.
like we havent met Godless clowns called liberals. Old news..
Of course the statistics on this kind of topic are not likely to be very reliable.
Wanna trigger someone that claims to be an Atheist?
“Just tell them that you think Atheism is FINE RELIGION.
If God did not exist there would be no atheists.
I’m atheist...that didn’t trigger me.
Here’s one for you. There are over 300,000 gods identified by various religions. You chose to believe in only 1 out of the 300,000. I just believe is one less than you. You are I are closer than you think.
Atheists cannot prove that there is no God. They have to take it on faith...
Include all the nonbeliever invaders and our country is cooked!! WITHOUT GOD AND PATRIOTISM A NATION PERISHES! That is the gospel truth!!
Saw a T-Shirt that said, “Thank God, I’m an Atheist”
But that One makes all the difference.
I’m not so sure there are going to be a LOT of people alive when He comes for the Church, the Body of Christ. I used to think there would be MILLIONS of believers. I’m starting to think there won’t be enough saved by GRACE believers alive to fill a DENNY’S. And still He waits patiently, wishing that NONE would reject CHRIST’S FINISHED WORK for any who simply BELIEVE
Yeah...sure. Hahaha...
Luke 18:8 King James Version (KJV)
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
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