The state of Christianity, Easter 2023

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Cypress

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Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline

Churches are closing at rapid numbers in the US, researchers say, as congregations dwindle across the country and a younger generation of Americans abandon Christianity altogether – even as faith continues to dominate American politics.

As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year in the country – a figure that experts believe may have accelerated since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of US adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular’,” Pew wrote.

“This accelerating trend is reshaping the US religious landscape.”

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Predictions about the decline of Christianity in America may be premature

CNN asked some of the nation's top religion scholars and historians recently about the future of Christianity in the US, they had a different message.

They said the American church is poised to find new life for one major reason: Waves of Christians are migrating to the US. Most of the religious scholars CNN spoke to said the American church may find salvation in another demographic trend: the booming of Christianity in what is called the "Global South," the regions encompassing Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Perry Hamalis spent time as a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where he personally witnessed the vitality of the Christian church in the Global South.

He says the church is not perceived in South Korea as an instrument of oppression, but one of liberation. When South Korea was colonized by the Japanese in the early 20th century, the church aligned with Koreans to protest.

"Christianity was looked at not as a religion of empire and of the colonizers, but as the religion of the anti-colonial movement and of pro-democracy," says Hamalis, a religion professor at North Central College in Illinois.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/04/08/us/christianity-decline-easter-blake-cec/index.html
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Cypress said:
The upside to a browner Christianity is that more Korean, Filipino, and Latin American christians here may ameliorate our issues with white Christian nationalism.
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There is a lot to be said about uniting different cultures for a common cause such as protecting a nation against tyranny, dictators or oligarch pedos seeking to turn the US into Putin's Russia.

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BartenderElite said:
Sounds like the future of Christianity in the U.S. relies on immigration.

That sure is interesting.
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It always has. How else could we conquor this vast land and take it from the Natives? LOL

A great book is "Empire of the Summer Moon". A truly fascinating book. The history of Texas is the history of the Comanches...and the horse...and the fact that, without Texas, Samual Colt would have died penniless. :)

My fondness of military history led me to many famous "last stands" including the Alamo...which I've visited a few times. Walter Lord's "A Time to Stand" was my favorite book about Texas until I came across S. C. Gwynne's book.

Like Laura Hillenbrand's books, Gwynne writes with rich and deeply researched detail.

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History​


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