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    There has been a big drop-off in white evangelical church participation among adults under 40, and publications such as Christianity Today and religious leaders are struggling to engage “Gen Z,” or those born after 1996.

    “One of the major factors is that the church is too tied up in right-wing politics,” said Greg Carey, a professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Evangelical activism against gay rights is particularly repellant to many members of a generation where “everyone has friends who are LGBTQ,” Carey said.

    Trump’s presidency may make the age gap worse, some evangelical Christians believe. “Having to go out and defend this guy day after day, as many of these Trump evangelicals are doing, they’re just destroying their credibility,” said Napp Nazworth, who until Monday was politics editor of another publication, the Christian Post.

    Nazworth resigned over the Christian Post’s plans to criticize Christianity Today for its anti-Trump editorial.

    He told Reuters many younger evangelicals opposed Trump’s immigration and asylum policies and were concerned about alleviating poverty, in contrast to older members of the faith. Evangelical leaders standing with Trump “will have no moral authority to speak to moral issues of the day after defending him,” Nazworth said.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1YX09N


    Trumps white christ stains are old geezer cracka goyim , the dying demographic
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    White evangelical protestants declined as a proportion of the U.S. population between 2006 and 2018, falling to 15% from 23%, according to analysis by the Public Religion Research Institute.
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.


    “If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."






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    Devout Christian Trump, now that is laughable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    There has been a big drop-off in white evangelical church participation among adults under 40, and publications such as Christianity Today and religious leaders are struggling to engage “Gen Z,” or those born after 1996.

    “One of the major factors is that the church is too tied up in right-wing politics,” said Greg Carey, a professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Evangelical activism against gay rights is particularly repellant to many members of a generation where “everyone has friends who are LGBTQ,” Carey said.

    Trump’s presidency may make the age gap worse, some evangelical Christians believe. “Having to go out and defend this guy day after day, as many of these Trump evangelicals are doing, they’re just destroying their credibility,” said Napp Nazworth, who until Monday was politics editor of another publication, the Christian Post.

    Nazworth resigned over the Christian Post’s plans to criticize Christianity Today for its anti-Trump editorial.

    He told Reuters many younger evangelicals opposed Trump’s immigration and asylum policies and were concerned about alleviating poverty, in contrast to older members of the faith. Evangelical leaders standing with Trump “will have no moral authority to speak to moral issues of the day after defending him,” Nazworth said.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1YX09N


    Trumps white christ stains are old geezer cracka goyim , the dying demographic
    About time...
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    About time...
    You wish death on older Americans? Why is that? The pathetic racist guno does, do you agree?
    Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    You wish death on older Americans? Why is that? The pathetic racist guno does, do you agree?
    Because I agree w/ some part of his or anyone's article-post does not mean I agree w/ everything they do, say or think....
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    Because I agree w/ some part of his or anyone's article-post does not mean I agree w/ everything they do, say or think....
    Your response was "About time..." Agreeably, it was vague, but also expansive. That's why I asked.

    Do you think Evangelicals pose a threat to this country? Do you think this one publication speaks for all of us, too?
    Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Your response was "About time..." Agreeably, it was vague, but also expansive. That's why I asked.

    Do you think Evangelicals pose a threat to this country? Do you think this one publication speaks for all of us, too?


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    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Your response was "About time..." Agreeably, it was vague, but also expansive. That's why I asked.
    Do you think Evangelicals pose a threat to this country? Do you think this one publication speaks for all of us, too?
    One reason church attendance and Xtian beliefs are sagging in America is due to the younger generations who have wisely decided to think for themselves rather than have a preacher tell them what to believe. This is a world-wide phenomenon.

    https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/...at-rapid-pace/
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    One reason church attendance and Xtian beliefs are sagging in America is due to the younger generations who have wisely decided to think for themselves rather than have a preacher tell them what to believe. This is a world-wide phenomenon.

    https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/...at-rapid-pace/
    powerful stats, the times they are a changing


    and this was from almost 3 years ago

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    One reason church attendance and Xtian beliefs are sagging in America is due to the younger generations who have wisely decided to think for themselves rather than have a preacher tell them what to believe. This is a world-wide phenomenon.

    https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/...at-rapid-pace/
    Think for themselves? On the contrary, their minds echo exactly what they're told to think, you dumb@ss. Maybe they get an hour a week in dumb deistic therapy church, but 50+ hours a week between government schools and jewish-controlled media.
    Ape lives matter. Stop putting them in zoos. Boycott businesses that don't hire apes.

    Then answered all the Jews, and said, Jesus' blood be on us, and on our children. So be it.
    Jews want to turn America into an atheistic, amoral, socialist farmyard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobb View Post
    Think for themselves? On the contrary, their minds echo exactly what they're told to think, you dumb@ss. Maybe they get an hour a week in dumb deistic therapy church, but 50+ hours a week between government schools and jewish-controlled media.
    we cheer that you white trash goyim are dying off
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    why do atheists always have to evangelize on the internet?......
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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