[Skywise]

The problem isn’t so much that Americans don’t want religion or God. The problem is that the churches have become godless.

True of mine.

[Sacajaweau]

The church was a gathering place 200 years ago and up until about 50 years ago. Then it insisted on extreme changes and redistributing their money pool....and they failed. The hierarchy took religion out of the church by playing with tradition.

[Ezekiel]

The last place anyone expects to find Christ is in a church!

[SES1066]

... the churches have become godless. True of mine.

Ditto for my birth church but it is only a part of the problem. The popular culture, from the media to music to cinema have all become very negative towards religion. A top cinema star of today, like Bing Cosby then, would never play a clean & kind Roman Catholic Priest.

Add to that the negatives from academia, even formerly religious-based schools. Southern Methodist U to U of Notre Dame are hardly even defending, let alone propagating any faith other than a host of antis. Next comes the near crescendo of legal problems (many self-inflicted) and judicial attacks and it almost seems a miracle that anybody stays religious!

[Salvation]

Not true of my Catholic Church.

[reasonisfaith]

Or the churches have become gods.

[Puckster]

“The problem isn’t so much that Americans don’t want religion or God. The problem is that the churches have become godless.”

In other words....for multiple decades....the “church” has been espousing “socialism”....whether right or left.

Follow the money....even in “christian” denominations.

1 Timothy 6:10King James Version (KJV)

10: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.