Future of Christianity in US

[FatAndFaithless]

The worst elements of Evangelical American Christianity are being shunted out and exported to Africa already. I do remain more optimistic than some though, that with the vast availability of information on the internet, successive generations will continue to get more educated and will come to view religion as a relic of their parents' and grandparents' generation.

If they're lucky, they will grow up in an environment where they don't have to give a shit. But going by what has been swept into Washington by the last election results, there's a very strong opposition of stupid. And they're pushing hard for ignorance.

Ehh, the GOP in the last half-century has been trying their best to inculcate those ideas with each successive generation, but the data are against them. Religiosity is declining, acceptance of evolution is increasing (a pittance, I know, but it's a start for us Americans), the availability of information in mass communications is something that the GOP can't (for now at least) get their hands around.

The 1950s baby-booming white picket fence non-interracial marriage AIDS-denying climate-change "skeptics" that consitute the bulk of the current GOP might seem to be "in charge" at the moment, but as more of the younger generations reach the age of governance I still think those kind of archaic ideas will decay and die (like the opposition to gay-marriage in recent years, which is a pretty stunning progress compared to where it stood two decades ago).

Still optimistic here!