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What do you fellas here think are the causes for the ongoing decline of Christianity in particular in this country…?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/christia...come-minority-religion-decades-study.amp

White people.

Easy answer Satan and end times.

The Jews.

Cause folks are beginning to think it's all a money making scam?

All kidding aside... but when the Pope comes out "pro-Abortion" in the next 6 months... I might just have to agree with the above.

The church (some) have lost their way.

I don't think Catholics or Protestants always see each other as Christians either.

This isn't the first misguided Pope. You're correct, the Church (maybe most) have lost their way.

''New global poll on religion and atheism by WIN-Gallup International has been receiving some attention. The poll, which covered 57 countries containing a solid majority of the world’s population, shows a clear decline in religiosity between 2005 and 2011. Globally, the number of adults claiming to be religious* evidently declined by 9 percent, with the number of atheists increasing by 3 percent.''

A couple of things that could contribute.

They talk about those who “identify as”. Too many times people are defined as x, y or x when any association that makes them such is simply by default. My mom and dad were Christian, we went to church therefore I am a Christian. Since church attendance isn’t the strong social event that it was in years past participation loses its meaning.

Back in the two thousands a guy named Christian Smith did some solid research on faith beliefs of American youth. He found that regardless of Christian denomination or religious affiliation there is little difference in what the average Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish kid believed in relation to God and faith.

The phrase coined based on the research was Therapeutic Moralistic Deism. God wants me to be happy. If I’m a good person I’m good with God. There is a God but God is far removed.

Those two realities likely contribute to the “within the church” contributions to the decline.

Millenials. "Don't judge me."

Nice try, but we are ALL at fault here. ....... ALL!!

This is part of it. Millennials don’t participate in anything other than socializing among themselves. Also, look at the garbage this society has become.

What one "identifies" as and what one really is are often vastly different.
Merely professing faith or merely believing in God does not save anyone.
Billy Graham Institute and Barna research estimate that, among Americans, those that are truly born again at less than 20%.
Europe was believed to be around 3-4%.
And this is data from 2 decades ago.

To understand what is going on, one needs to read the Book of Revelations. It's very hard to comprehend, but it explains what's going to happen.

I think you are correct James.

Episcopalian then Nothing..

It will be by Default of not Practicing ..

Two poster child types of Religion going forward was the Bishop of St. John Church in DC after the Insurrection against Trump ..

And the Arch Bishop of DC ..

Then you got that Spiritual Frontman Marxist that Nanny Polonium calls Dad ..

They say everything gets Solved at the End of a Barrel.

Was a Sword and Arrow at one time ..

These cycles seem to repeat themselves..



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All over the World, big nanny-state government and prosperity seem to be causes.

But I think those are only proximate causes. The main driver is that the end of the World is coming soon, whatever "soon" means.

True Christians have ALWAYS been a minority!

I blame the NFL, Coca Cola, and Carhartt