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According to some critics, the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. Let's break down why that's ridiculous.
From what I gather on what is called, with irony that could only come from Hell’s own propaganda department, “social media,” the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. They do not welcome people of the whole range of oddball sexual proclivities, they insist upon liturgies that put everyone off but themselves, and they are generally obnoxious and unloving.
Let me take these one by one.
First, it has been many years since the liberal Protestant denominations in the United States, Canada, and Europe have sung “Over the Rainbow.” Their precipitous decline continues apace. Here and there it is stalled by pockets of real resistance: I am thinking, for example, of Episcopalian parishes that have united themselves with African bishops, and of parishes in the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that hold the line locally.
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From what I gather on what is called, with irony that could only come from Hell’s own propaganda department, “social media,” the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. They do not welcome people of the whole range of oddball sexual proclivities, they insist upon liturgies that put everyone off but themselves, and they are generally obnoxious and unloving.
Let me take these one by one.
First, it has been many years since the liberal Protestant denominations in the United States, Canada, and Europe have sung “Over the Rainbow.” Their precipitous decline continues apace. Here and there it is stalled by pockets of real resistance: I am thinking, for example, of Episcopalian parishes that have united themselves with African bishops, and of parishes in the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that hold the line locally.
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Do Conservatives Drive People Away from the Church?
By Anthony Esolen - According to some critics, the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. Let’s break down why that’s ridiculous.
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