>>The strength of faith has waned in the USA.
And that’s because the faith of the Free-Minded Individual has been surrendered by proxy to a cadre of religious parrots wearing vestigial plumage left over from the Roman/Babylonian/Egyptian/Chaldean... empires — who assert to the McSheeple that their opinions are the only true and infallible.
Well, stripping off all the verbal ornamentation you’ve furnished here, I’m sure that denominational affiliation does have a lot to do with this waning of faith. People are loathe to walk out of a congregation that’s headed hellward, out of inertia. It’s not the ONLY stumbling block. But it is one.
I think, except for gnatty details (again I don’t go for big man-written, railing screeds when the bible will do) we agree rather well in principle...
And I am also free minded. My freedom comes from the authority of Christ. I am not beholden to any denomination’s leaders. On the other hand I can share Christ with people in any denomination to the extent they don’t lean on the denomination. (For example. I’d give Roman Catholics dissent about the infallibility of the pope, and I’d give Protestants dissent about that there isn’t some pretty robust Christianity going on within the Roman Catholic church.)
What the hell are you trying to say?