Less than half of Americans attend Christmas church services compared to 10 years ago, study shows
Lifeway, a Christian media company, reported approximately half of US adults are attending church compared to ten years ago.
And Father Jon Seda says this doesn’t surprise him.
“I mean, I’ve been a priest 36 years, and all the churches, the numbers are going down. We’re becoming a more secular society.” he said.
And although two thirds of Americans identify as Christians, he says this doesn’t mean they’ll keep this label their whole life.
“The culture kind of carried it, but, eventually, you have to come to it yourself. It can’t be Mom and Dad’s faith. It can’t be, you know, other people’s, it has to be yours. And so you’re seeing some of the cultural Christians simply are not connected with the church anymore.” he said.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/12/26/less-tha...udy-shows/
Lifeway, a Christian media company, reported approximately half of US adults are attending church compared to ten years ago.
And Father Jon Seda says this doesn’t surprise him.
“I mean, I’ve been a priest 36 years, and all the churches, the numbers are going down. We’re becoming a more secular society.” he said.
And although two thirds of Americans identify as Christians, he says this doesn’t mean they’ll keep this label their whole life.
“The culture kind of carried it, but, eventually, you have to come to it yourself. It can’t be Mom and Dad’s faith. It can’t be, you know, other people’s, it has to be yours. And so you’re seeing some of the cultural Christians simply are not connected with the church anymore.” he said.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/12/26/less-tha...udy-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"
