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Carnal Christians sounds menacing...like calling them meat. But I suppose such names are good for looking down the end of our noses at people.That certainly sounds like more fun. Some of us seem to have forgotten that the Gospel was supposed to be good news
The thing is, I could present you with a dozen quotes from members, reworded so that you couldn't search for the people who posted them, and I guarantee that you couldn't tell from them whether someone was a Christian or not. In fact, you'd probably think most were not. And I'll bet the ones that you thought were not all go to church and read their bibles regularly. And quite possibly the ones you thought were are not regular church goers.
The 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today — ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.
About half of Americans now say religion is not an important part of their daily life. They remain as divided on the question today as they were last year.
As religiosity has declined in the U.S., the gap between the U.S. and the global median has widened. The global median for religiosity has remained stable for nearly two decades, averaging 81% since 2007 and reaching 83% last year, the most current full-year data available.
At the same time, attitudes in the U.S. are drawing closer to those in other advanced economies.
U.S. Now Occupies Unique Spot in Global Religiosity
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Yes, it makes one wonder why so many Christians in the US are devoting their energy to supporting Christian Nationalism rather than evangelizing.It is a crisis of credibility for the West that Cultural Christians are being so heavily pruned in recent years. It does not bode well for Western culture and explains a lot of the relative loss of power, wealth and influence also in recent years. The true church is still there. Young people are being challenged by the moral relativism, egoism and materialistic reductionism of liberal atheism but my hope is that they will see through this hopeless culture of despair in time. Meanwhile around the world people continue to be overwhelmingly religious and the global church keeps growing as it has done for 2000 years already.
The 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today — ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.
About half of Americans now say religion is not an important part of their daily life. They remain as divided on the question today as they were last year.
As religiosity has declined in the U.S., the gap between the U.S. and the global median has widened. The global median for religiosity has remained stable for nearly two decades, averaging 81% since 2007 and reaching 83% last year, the most current full-year data available.
At the same time, attitudes in the U.S. are drawing closer to those in other advanced economies.
U.S. Now Occupies Unique Spot in Global Religiosity
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What sort of things exemplify this blitz? NFL games on Sunday?rather than from any sort of ongoing, atheistic social media blitz intended to tear a person's faith apart. (**cough!**)
Yes, I jest.
What sort of things exemplify this blitz? NFL games on Sunday?
This, you seriously think, is responsible for Americans being less likely to rate religion as important in their lives? The siren song of Nietzsche on TikTok?I had more in mind examples along the lines of a book, or even a youtube channel for instance, committed to explicating the "benefits" of Nietzsche's or Marx's thinking, or some such, proliferating as they have over the last quarter century.
But I know, those areas of study aren't your specialty, are they?
Perhaps Americans are getting tired of politics intruding into every moment of their lives.
Not sure I understand. Can you give me an example of what youre talking about?Yes, there's that. But the complication is that unless your personal ideology extends to nothing more than a "Wilson" soccer ball, they almost always carry some kind of social outcome with them, some large and some small. And we all have ideologies.
They are, to use the right term, woke to their reality. Religion is dying and seizing power is their only hope to arrest that decline.Yes, it makes one wonder why so many Christians in the US are devoting their energy to supporting Christian Nationalism rather than evangelizing.
The NFL has primarily played games on Sunday from their creation a hundred years ago, as it was a day when people were not working and there was no college football. In 1961, a federal law about sports broadcasting essential prohibits pro-football broadcast from compete with HS and college football keeping the NFL/AFL on Sundays.What sort of things exemplify this blitz? NFL games on Sunday?
They are, to use the right term, woke to their reality. Religion is dying and seizing power is their only hope to arrest that decline.
How are you gong to get to that pointi when over 70 million people voted for someone whom is the direct opposite of what you need? And that's not a flippant response. I really want to know how it can be done.I have no interest in "seizing" power or in helping anyone else do so. I would prefer to see truly intelligent, educated and well intentioned (meaning: non-extremist) people in government seats.
How are you gong to get to that pointi when over 70 million people voted for someone whom is the direct opposite of what you need? And that's not a flippant response. I really want to know how it can be done.
That's nice, but the Christian nationalists are trying to seize the government and shove their religion down our society. That's the whole project at this point for them.I have no interest in "seizing" power or in helping anyone else do so. I would prefer to see truly intelligent, educated and well intentioned (meaning: non-extremist) people in government seats.
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