Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: December 4, 2024, 10:37 pm
Atheist Forums › Community › Atheism › News & Activism v
Decline of religion

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
Decline of religion
Thumpalumpacus Offline
Outside cat
*****
Religious Views: Alive in the Superunknown
Posts: 23099
Threads: 26
Joined: February 2, 2010
Reputation: 106
#191
RE: Decline of religion
May 15, 2024 at 6:40 pm
(May 15, 2024 at 12:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 15, 2024 at 10:42 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: In Germany, an initiative was launched to declare church buildings a public asset.

Christian communities are less and less able to preserve church buildings, many of them have been put out of use or even removed. People don't need them anymore.

https://www.moderne-regional.de/kirchenmanifest/

I propose that all unused churches be repurposed as therapy centres for child victims of clerical sexual abuse.

Boru

There was an old Catholic church in Paso Robles, CA (where I lived for a few years) that got repurposed into a nice restaurant and great meat-market back in the 70s, before I moved there or was old enough to enjoy.

Find
Reply
h311inac311 Offline
Junior Member
**
Religious Views: Christian
Posts: 165
Threads: 5
Joined: May 4, 2022
Reputation: 1
#192
RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am
What are we replacing churches with?
Find
Reply
The Grand Nudger Offline
Retired Staff
*****
Religious Views: Invasive
Posts: 67223
Threads: 140
Joined: June 28, 2011
Reputation: 162
#193
RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 11:21 am (This post was last modified: May 16, 2024 at 11:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Self help retreats, yoga classes, herbal supplements, timeshares, and The Donald.....mostly. You guys are a new agey and aged bunch nowadays.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Find
Reply
h4ym4n Offline
Member
***
Religious Views: Atheist
Posts: 1325
Threads: 2
Joined: October 10, 2013
Reputation: 10
#194
RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?

Tattoos and piercings

Find
Reply
arewethereyet Offline
Don't make me use my mom voice!
*******
Religious Views: Yawn...
Posts: 16493
Threads: 127
Joined: July 10, 2013
Reputation: 65
#195
RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm)h4ym4n Wrote:
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?

Tattoos and piercings

Perfect...got lots of tattoos but don't really wear jewelry anymore.
[Image: MmQV79M.png]  
                                      
Find
Reply
h4ym4n Offline
Member
***
Religious Views: Atheist
Posts: 1325
Threads: 2
Joined: October 10, 2013
Reputation: 10
#196
RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 9:18 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(May 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Tattoos and piercings

Perfect...got lots of tattoos but don't really wear jewelry anymore.

Ain’t true without pictures.  Read

Find
Reply
arewethereyet Offline
Don't make me use my mom voice!
*******
Religious Views: Yawn...
Posts: 16493
Threads: 127
Joined: July 10, 2013
Reputation: 65
#197
RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 9:57 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 9:18 pm)h4ym4n Wrote:
(May 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Perfect...got lots of tattoos but don't really wear jewelry anymore.

Ain’t true without pictures.  Read

I don't have pics of them all...


[Image: MmQV79M.png]  
                                      
Find
Reply
Fake Messiah Offline
Activist for Sin
*****
Religious Views: Prozac supplants exorcism
Posts: 17031
Threads: 461
Joined: March 29, 2015
Reputation: 30
#198
RE: Decline of religion
May 18, 2024 at 1:57 am
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
Benjamin Franklin


In Nebraska, empty churches are becoming apartments, museums

After over a century of worship, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Benedict closed its doors in January 2020. Seven months later, the Johnsons bought it.

This house of worship turned home is one of a number of Nebraska churches that, amid rising costs and falling attendance, have found second lives filling gaps in their local communities. Churches are becoming apartments, community centers and places to preserve history and foster the arts.

In early February, the Lincoln City Council signed off on a proposal to turn the former Southminster Methodist Church into offices and apartments.

Cadre Architecture and Design is set to buy the church for $350,000 after New Visions United Methodist Church decided to merge into one building and sell their two remaining properties in Lincoln.

The United Methodist Church Great Plains Conference, which includes Nebraska and Kansas, has seen 81 churches close since 2014.

[Image: KathyPew_Delkamiller-1-768x512.webp]

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/in-nebras...s-museums/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Find
Reply
brewer Offline Donators
Emotionally exhausted/Morally bankrupt
*****
Religious Views: atheist
Posts: 28337
Threads: 524
Joined: June 16, 2015
Reputation: 90
#199
RE: Decline of religion
May 18, 2024 at 6:17 am
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?

Anything else.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
Find
Reply
Fake Messiah Offline
Activist for Sin
*****
Religious Views: Prozac supplants exorcism
Posts: 17031
Threads: 461
Joined: March 29, 2015
Reputation: 30
#200
RE: Decline of religion
May 22, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Majority of people in Scotland have no religion, census shows

A majority of people in Scotland say they do not follow any religion – the first time secular attitudes have overtaken religious identity.

Data from the latest Scottish census, carried out in 2022, shows 51% of the population reported they belonged to no religion – a sharp increase on the 36.7% in 2011.

The Church of Scotland, the once-dominant Presbyterian church, which is now holding its annual general assembly in Edinburgh, was the most heavily affected by the surge in secularism.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...nsus-shows
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Find
Reply


Atheist Forums › Community › Atheism › News & Activism v
Decline of religion



Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)