Decline of religion

[Deesse23]

There are many churches in Germany which are being recommissioned as living spaces, art galleries, hobby areas, even sport halls because attendance is steadily decreasing:

46 Catholic ones in 2025 and 500 in the past 25 years.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There are many churches in Germany which are being recommissioned as living spaces, art galleries, hobby areas, even sport halls because attendance is steadily decreasing:

46 Catholic ones in 2025 and 500 in the past 25 years.

The only advantage in keeping houses of worship open is to keep the nutters in one place. These people need to be watched.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

America’s Christian revival is a hoax

Contrary to ridiculous reports, America is merely witnessing a Christian reboot, not a Christian revival. And reboots are rarely as good as the original.

To hear cultural tastemakers tell it, faith is fashionable again. Songs with Christian lyrics climb the charts. Cross necklaces reappear on red carpets. Political leaders promise to “defend Christians.” Podcasters debate whether belief has become cool once more. Even NPR, not exactly known for altar calls, recently asked whether Christianity has found new life in popular culture.

But culture isn’t the same as church. Visibility isn’t the same as vitality. And Christianity without commitment isn’t Christianity in any meaningful sense.

Start with the most basic measure: attendance. Churchgoing in America continues to fall. Weekly attendance has been steadily declining for decades. The pandemic didn’t create the problem so much as accelerate the retreat.

America is in the midst of the “great unchurching,” a steady shift away from organized religion toward a more individualized spiritual landscape. Nearly 30 percent of U.S. adults now identify as religiously unaffiliated, up by roughly one-third since 2013. About 57 percent seldom or never attend religious services, a sharp rise from two decades ago. The numbers tell a clear story. The visuals make it unmistakable: empty pews, consolidated parishes, and church buildings quietly repurposed into apartments, event spaces or yoga studios.

Yet the search for meaning hasn’t disappeared. If anything, it has migrated. The spiritual marketplace is booming, just not in churches. TikTok mystics dispense daily wisdom. Content creators offer bite-sized transcendence. Even AI prayer bots now offer forgiveness as a service.

For many Americans, spirituality is now something to consume rather than commune around. An individual brand rather than a shared discipline, a playlist rather than a practice. Belief remains, but it has been deinstitutionalized, downloaded, and personalized. No priest, sermon, or parking lot scramble required.

This is where the revival narrative falls apart. What we are seeing is not a return to shared worship, shared discipline, or shared belief, but Christianity detached from its roots and repackaged for mass consumption.

Arizona Christian University found that the share of Americans identifying as Christian fell from 72 percent in 2020 to 66 percent in 2025. That‘s roughly 15 million adults in just five years. At the same time, the number of Americans claiming no faith rose to nearly 60 million.

On this current trajectory, Christianity’s decline is less a gradual erosion than a generational shift. Each cohort that disengages is less likely to return, less likely to marry within the church, and far less likely to raise children in it. What looks like a marginal change on paper compounds quickly in practice.

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blo...s-revival/

[The Grand Nudger]

It's why the nuts think demonic forces are attacking them from without - but, ofc, it's their own children ghosting the faith of their fathers from within.