Future of Christianity in US

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Matt Dillahunty is a prime example of what I was driveling on about. He is a hardcore sceptic, and always has been. But he was a christian for 25 years and was beginning to train to become a minister. It was at that point he decided that he needed to find the answers to the problems atheists had been presenting him with, so he could stride confidently into his new role.

Once he started looking, he discovered that he had been applying scepticism to every aspect of his life except his religion. Once he finally shone the light on it, he found it didn't hold up. Thus began his deconversion, and his eventual atheism. Now he's a presenter on the Atheist Experience. Check it out on youtube, it's incredibly entertaining and informative for theist and atheist alike.

I'm sure there are plenty more scientifically minded sceptics out there who just haven't shone that light into the sacred darkness of their religion. It may be the fear of what they will find, it may be conditioning, it may be peer pressure. It's up to them whether they continue to keep religion in a little box that is safe from reason and reality, or to apply the same methods to it that they would to anything else, and see if it stands up. If it's true, it should.

Spoiler: it doesn't.