(September 12, 2016 at 9:09 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: It's easy to be oblivious when you spend most of your time in an echo chamber being spoon-fed your talking points. I found the picture more interesting than the article itself. Judging from that, it looks like a good majority of these "values voters" are about two election cycles away from wearing Depends and drinking their meals. If the hardcore conservative Christians hope to remain any kind of viable political force, rather than to just continue their mass whining and bitching to no one but themselves, they are going to have to figure out a way to appeal to a much younger demographic that largely isn't buying it.
Good luck with that.
That's exactly it. As the generations pass, the numbers of believers here in America decline. No doubt there's a baseline somewhere, but the fact is that we've seen the peak and ebb of the tide which started in, oh, perhaps '65, peaked in the early 90s, and is now waning. More stringent rules are in place in schools regarding religion. The courts have slapped down most all attempts at public displays on public property. Kids nowadays have the internet on their phones and are therefore less susceptible to parental programing.
The erosion has certainly started.
Will they figure out a way to appeal to the young? They'll have to drop any further support for homophobic bigotry, racism, and tamp down their message even more.
In a way, it's a sort of homeopathic atheism. There will be no knockout blow, simply an incremental dilution of their power in our society.
