I think evangelicalism, televangelists, revivals, holy rollers, and the snake oil salesmen in America did TREMENDOUS damage to the Christian brand, and they took down the Orthodox, Catholics, and other Christians with them. People have been watching scandals, perverts, greedy scumbags, charlatans, hucksters, and hypocrites in evangelicalism for years in America, and it's a turn-off. Atheism has become the preferred alternative. Why? Because some atheists sound far more rational and human than their evangelical counterparts.
American Christians are too quick to create heroes out of nowhere with practically no vetting process. Sarah Palin is a great example.
Just when I get utterly fed up with the sycophantic, arrogant, elitist, commie left wing, I listen to the right wing and find myself equally wanting to vomit. Just get on Facebook and listen to the way Republican tea party posters talk about kicking all the (f bomb) illegals out of 'Merica and kill 'em all. 'They're illegal and they can take their stinking nasty children with them, dirty Mexicans.' And if it were just one or two posts, but no, it's hundreds and hundreds and they get so many "likes."
If you listen to so many of the people cheering on Kim Davis, they're making Christians look bad. I could list ten different anti-gay comments they make on FB, most of which involve the pushing in of fecal material/stools and rectums. It makes me nauseous!
I've never seen a point in time where liberals looked more elitist, commie-like, arrogant, condescending, and their eyes more gleaming to take away our rights. And equally I've never seen a more red neck backwards mullet-wearing hickish group of Republicans in all my life. There are nothing but poles now, with no middle ground or common sense.
I guess I'm at a point where I almost feel like I envy monks at times. Take both Kim Davis and the sodomites and just flee them both and go into the desert in the monastery. A plague on both their houses. I tire of hearing about sodomy, and hearing a triple-divorcee preachin' the 'word' against them. I with government would get out of the marriage business altogether.
But just as I fantasize about running into the hills and hiding in the monastery, the truth that the devil flaps his wings into such holy places and does overtime on monks comes to the fore and the reality is there. We can hide in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, and we can't run from good old human sin and pathetic bickering and whining.
People just aren't rational anymore. They're driven by emotion in just insane fits of rage and simpering whining spurts.
I often wonder how much longer this country will last....hence the reason I am stockpiling ammo and guns! LOL