RE: Decline of religion
July 21, 2023 at 12:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2023 at 1:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Nominal christianity. The demographic is even larger than that 15% who don't believe in god. Something like two out of ten christians don't believe in god, and a further six out of ten (between five and seven depending on the subcult) hold explicitly heretical beliefs - which is to say beliefs that are not only verboten, but that the self reporting holders know are verboten. You could really only count on something like two or three christians out of ten to be the kind of person you're thinking of when you use the term. Each of those guys thinks some number of the other two or three aren't christian, in addition to that.
Post christian christianity is the dominant form of christianity in the us, overall, and political religion is threatening the minority remainder. Taken together, it's the birth of a new religion in real time. It's fascinating, and christian institutions did it to themselves. One giant unforced error that could very well see christianity gone or unrecognizable as christianity within our borders, in our lifetime. Unrepentant assholes. Stealing shit, fucking children, drowning in taxpayer money, and still pleading a delicious combination of poverty and superiority. I guess they figured people would just take it till the end of days.
This has happened before. Christianity was a beneficiary the last time. The short and sweet of it is that christian ideology has failed to keep up with the private beliefs of it's own adherents.
Post christian christianity is the dominant form of christianity in the us, overall, and political religion is threatening the minority remainder. Taken together, it's the birth of a new religion in real time. It's fascinating, and christian institutions did it to themselves. One giant unforced error that could very well see christianity gone or unrecognizable as christianity within our borders, in our lifetime. Unrepentant assholes. Stealing shit, fucking children, drowning in taxpayer money, and still pleading a delicious combination of poverty and superiority. I guess they figured people would just take it till the end of days.
This has happened before. Christianity was a beneficiary the last time. The short and sweet of it is that christian ideology has failed to keep up with the private beliefs of it's own adherents.
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