America is losing its religion — and the effects will be long-lasting

[PoliTalker]

Hello signalmankenneth,

[FONT=&]New surveys show Americans' membership in communities of worship has declined sharply in recent years, with less than 50% of the country belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque.
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[FONT=&]Why it matters: The accelerating trend towards a more secular America represents a fundamental change in the national character, one that will have major ramifications for politics and even social cohesion.

By the numbers: A Gallup poll released last week found just 47% of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% as recently as 1999.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html


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I once struggled with the religion thing. Bombarded as we are with the messages that we should believe in this story. But that's all it is, really. Oh, and just to make sure you believe, part of the story is that horrible things will happen to you if you don't believe. Carlin got it right.

I was afraid to be true to my disbelief for a long time. Gradually, I decided that it was OK. Finally, I was free of the guilt of doubting it. And the fear. Free to say out loud what I suspected for a long time. That we really do not know how we got here.

And I can tell you honestly, after many many years of disbelief, that there is a perfectly good life without that heavy ominous weight. It is a freedom to accept that this life is the only one we will know, that after it is done one simply ceases to exist. Just like any other animal.

Because that's all we really are.

Lately, Christianity has become more and more at odds with science and reality. It has become a greater and greater leap of faith to follow. So I am not surprised to see people running from it. Now, I know that many who no longer belong to organized religion still hold their beliefs. That is their right. It is not for me or any person to say what others should believe. And that is exactly why churches are going out of fashion.

 

[RB 60]

Hello signalmankenneth,



I once struggled with the religion thing. Bombarded as we are with the messages that we should believe in this story. But that's all it is, really. Oh, and just to make sure you believe, part of the story is that horrible things will happen to you if you don't believe. Carlin got it right.

I was afraid to be true to my disbelief for a long time. Gradually, I decided that it was OK. Finally, I was free of the guilt of doubting it. And the fear. Free to say out loud what I suspected for a long time. That we really do not know how we got here.

And I can tell you honestly, after many many years of disbelief, that there is a perfectly good life without that heavy ominous weight. It is a freedom to accept that this life is the only one we will know, that after it is done one simply ceases to exist. Just like any other animal.

Because that's all we really are.

Lately, Christianity has become more and more at odds with science and reality. It has become a greater and greater leap of faith to follow. So I am not surprised to see people running from it. Now, I know that many who no longer belong to organized religion still hold their beliefs. That is their right. It is not for me or any person to say what others should believe. And that is exactly why churches are going out of fashion.

STFU!

 

[Hawkeye10]

Hello signalmankenneth,



I once struggled with the religion thing. Bombarded as we are with the messages that we should believe in this story. But that's all it is, really. Oh, and just to make sure you believe, part of the story is that horrible things will happen to you if you don't believe. Carlin got it right.

I was afraid to be true to my disbelief for a long time. Gradually, I decided that it was OK. Finally, I was free of the guilt of doubting it. And the fear. Free to say out loud what I suspected for a long time. That we really do not know how we got here.

And I can tell you honestly, after many many years of disbelief, that there is a perfectly good life without that heavy ominous weight. It is a freedom to accept that this life is the only one we will know, that after it is done one simply ceases to exist. Just like any other animal.

Because that's all we really are.

Lately, Christianity has become more and more at odds with science and reality. It has become a greater and greater leap of faith to follow. So I am not surprised to see people running from it. Now, I know that many who no longer belong to organized religion still hold their beliefs. That is their right. It is not for me or any person to say what others should believe. And that is exactly why churches are going out of fashion.

Much more important is that Modern Morons are sure that they know that their ancestors have nothing to teach them, so they refuse to listen.....THAT is how we got to collapse.....it is because we failed....that is how we degraded into shit people and then failed.

 

[RB 60]

Much more important is that Modern Morons are sure that they know that their ancestors have nothing to teach them, so they refuse to listen.....THAT is how we got to collapse.....it is because we failed.

Al the while that stupid cunt (and a few others above) sit in line at the church that is handing out free food waiting for "their share."

 

[Cypress]

I would be happy with no Christians.

However, humans will always be hard wired for a spritual-moral-philosophical tradition which address the following:

the importance of a connection between our own lives and some larger context (universal, divine, or social).

Impermanence.

Some ideal of human perfection.

Effortless melding of values and actions.

Living an authentic life.


And that human need will be true whether one wants to call it Christianity, Existentialism, Buddhism, or whatever.

 

[BidenPresident]

However, humans will always need a spritual-moral-philosophical tradition which address the following:

the importance of a connection between our own lives and some larger context (universal, divine, or social).

Impermanence.

Some ideal of human perfection.

Effortless melding of values and actions.

Living an authentic life.


And that human need will be true whether one wants to call it Christianity, Existentialism, Buddhism, or whatever.

When churches pay property tax I will care.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

This is not true. It's just traditional religion is being displaced by religion in things like "science," or Leftist dogma...

Environmentalism as Religion
Unwitting religiosity makes the environmental movement less effective.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/202008/environmentalism-religion

Leftism pretends to be a system of thought, but it is nothing more or less than a secular religion. It is godless, but godlessness is the most bigoted and intolerant of all belief systems, and the Ultra-Orthodox Church of Atheism adheres to no doctrine more fanatically than the impossibility of a Blessed Creator. That accounts for its worship of Darwinism – evolution by natural selection – even though many great agnostic scientists like Sir Fred Hoyle have demonstrated the impossibility of Darwinism. It also explains the deliberate misnaming of theories other than Darwinism as "Creationism," although even the most average honest mind grasps that Creationism and Intelligent Design are independent theories.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/11/the_religion_of_leftism.html

Socialism = I'm breathing so you owe me crap!

 

[Cypress]

Belief has long tended to be so superficial that it barely matters. It was not so with my Grandparents, their entire lives revolved around the Church and what they believed in.

Christianity is losing favor because there are so many bad ambassadors for Christianity.

Rightwing evangelicals worshipping Donald Trumpf telegraphs to everyone else that flavor of evangelicalism is hypocritical and morally bankrupt.

Everyone admires the faith of Jimmy and Roslyn Carter because it is a bedrock of humility, social justice, morality.

Christianity needs good ambassadors. It does not need to worry about what percentage of the nation it is.

 

[Mason Melchizedek]

[FONT=&]New surveys show Americans' membership in communities of worship has declined sharply in recent years, with less than 50% of the country belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque.
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[FONT=&]Why it matters: The accelerating trend towards a more secular America represents a fundamental change in the national character, one that will have major ramifications for politics and even social cohesion.

By the numbers: A Gallup poll released last week found just 47% of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% as recently as 1999.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html


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America's religion is capitalism

 

[gemini104104]

[FONT=&]New surveys show Americans' membership in communities of worship has declined sharply in recent years, with less than 50% of the country belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque.
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[FONT=&]Why it matters: The accelerating trend towards a more secular America represents a fundamental change in the national character, one that will have major ramifications for politics and even social cohesion.

By the numbers: A Gallup poll released last week found just 47% of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% as recently as 1999.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html


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What religion would that be and don't you think its wise to speak for oneself instead of a entire nation to which religion of all faiths is alive and well in America, except for the GQP/GOP to which their Evangelical faith is basically blasphemous devil worshipping?

 

[Drummie123]

--->"Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.Wikipedia"

Thanks for that.

 

[Drummie123]

America's religion is capitalism

The fact that a sensible and well informed poster would say that indicates a need for more Christianity.

 

[RB 60]

Christianity is losing favor because there are so many bad ambassadors for Christianity.

Rightwing evangelicals worshipping Donald Trumpf telegraphs to everyone else that flavor of evangelicalism is hypocritical and morally bankrupt.

Everyone admires the faith of Jimmy and Roslyn Carter because it is a bedrock of humility, social justice, morality.

Christianity needs good ambassadors. It does not need to worry about what percentage of the nation it is.

There have been "bad ambassadors" since Eve tempted Adam. But you fucks try to say all Evangelicals worship Trump? You're a fucking liar. You don't think there are liberal Evangelicals? Since you're only projecting the "talking points" and injecting your own your stupidity, there ARE liberals who attend the church I am a member of. And mine isn't the only one.

Yep, you admire Carter's faith, yet demoralize Pence for his. You are a fucking hypocrite, not to mention a fucking ignorant one.

 

[Drummie123]

Christianity is losing favor because there are so many bad ambassadors for Christianity.

Rightwing evangelicals worshipping Donald Trumpf telegraphs to everyone else that flavor of evangelicalism is hypocritical and morally bankrupt.

Everyone admires the faith of Jimmy and Roslyn Carter because it is a bedrock of humility, social justice, morality.

Christianity needs good ambassadors. It does not need to worry about what percentage of the nation it is.

The "worshipping" of Donald Trump is something the media doesn't want you to understand and that may be why your appraisal of him seems so cartoonish and simplistic.

See, we can agree with your appraisal of Jimmy and Roslyn.

And one of the reasons that we love Trump so much is that only he would commit to maintaining religious freedom to the Carters and the rest of us.

It is typical of Libs to put the cart before the horse or to lose sight of what is most important.

The Carters are lovely examples of Christianity.

But only Trump would actually protect the right of religious freedom to be practiced in America for the Carters and all the rest of US.

As the Constitution promises.

And then look at all the other rights the Dems would "compromise on."

Canadian Police Barricade Church With Riot-Style Fence: ‘All Under the Guise of a Health Order’

Apr 7, 2021
https://www.toddstarnes.com/coronav...il&utm_term=0_92d26c77ee-8b0a3e144b-113785754

Here is a Canadian church which had a fence erected around it to keep the congregation out.

That's one thing we elected Trump to prevent here.

SOMEBODY has to be willing to stand up to the threats to our freedoms from without and from within.

That somebody was Trump.

That's just one reason we "worshipped" him.


The media would never tell you that.

And no-one on the Left would stand strong for US like Trump repeatedly has.

He took his orders from US, not China, not Russia, not from Soros not from the Muslim Brotherhood, not from the big tech and big monied interests.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Al the while that stupid cunt (and a few others above) sit in line at the church that is handing out free food waiting for "their share."

"I will put the chains on myself so long as you promise to keep me safe and I believe you....anything for "SAFETY!"














barf

 

[Drummie123]

Christians have matured since those days. The only religion still at that violent stage is Islam.

Why don't you give credit where credit is due instead of impugning the religion which is no longer going on Crusades?

I think your reluctance to criticize Islam tells us which religion you think should be feared.

 

[Lightbringer]

Christians have matured since those days. The only religion still at that violent stage is Islam.

Why don't you give credit where credit is due instead of impugning the religion which is no longer going on Crusades?

I think your reluctance to criticize Islam tells us which religion you think should be feared.

You should be leery of all religions.

 

[gemini104104]

[FONT=&]New surveys show Americans' membership in communities of worship has declined sharply in recent years, with less than 50% of the country belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque.
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[FONT=&]Why it matters: The accelerating trend towards a more secular America represents a fundamental change in the national character, one that will have major ramifications for politics and even social cohesion.

By the numbers: A Gallup poll released last week found just 47% of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% as recently as 1999.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html


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Actually at dogging and contradicting the U.S., what nation Earth has the prefect form of religion, especially when it comes to faith with the Almighty? Speaking lies all the time.

 

[Mason Melchizedek]

You should be leery of all religions.

Organized Religion

 

[NiftyNiblick]

This will make the extremist religious Reichwingers became even more energized to install their beliefs into our government.

But in the end, secularism will triumph and the world will be better for it.

Cultural wars don't end with changed hearts, Owl.

They end in partition [my preferred solution],
genocide [hopefully nobody's preferred solution],
or they don't end at all.

Political polarization may diminish as politics evolve.
Cultural polarization is forever from what history tells us.

People either separate from one another, get wiped out, or keep fighting forever.