That’s a fair point. Christ IS the door but in the modern era not so much.
I think that there is a natural matriculation that’s been going on for a long time. There was understandably a large surge in religion after WWII. Lots of new churches and moralism after the hell of war. I’ve read about the decline relates to the natural fall off of such a movement and had thought that we were mostly past that phase. It may account for some of the present exodus but likely only a small percentage.
The post modern narrative of group identification and group definition which quickly transitioned to the individual narrative in post post modernism has made its way to the church/churches. There is a lot of that think demonstrated on this board on relation to Christian belief and expression.
That kind of thinking isn’t new and it never lasts. The post and post post modern fade likely makes up for a majority of the exodus.
In any of the cases I see the common thread of moralistic therapeutic deism. The acceptance of God as a helper rather than the Savior.
