Posted on 07/18/2012 1:43:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Episcopals, like many other old guard protesting religions, are in trouble. Jay Akasie tells us that at this year’s annual conclave, the Episcopalian leadership had their most serious discussions about “whether to develop funeral rites for dogs and cats, and whether to ratify resolutions condemning genetically modified foods.” Also “the approval of transgender ordination.” All were approved, naturally.
They also issued a sort of “apology to Native Americans for exposing them to Christianity”, and began a chat about how, using “blunt modern language and with politically correct intent” to re-write the “church’s historic” (but now embarrassing) Book of Common Prayer. And, oh yes, they approved a rite to bless so-called same-sex unions. The only thing missing was a statement condemning global warming.
But that’s because, as Russ Douthat reminds us, they did that already in 2006, when the group said they “valued ‘the stewardship of the earth’ too highly to reproduce themselves.”
The good news is that Episcopalians who sleep in on Sunday are in no danger of missing the weekly sermon. All they need do is switch on NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, or PBS or subscribe to the DNC newsletter and there it will be.
Evidently, this is what most Episcopalians, Methodists, Lutherans, and other WASPy religion members have done, because fewer and fewer of them are showing up in the pews. The following picture illustrates this; this is the per 1000 citizen church members (i.e. normalized by the USA population):
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
Abandoning the word of God and the gospel leads to declines?
Who knew?
The increase in RC is from Mexico, BTW.
Interesting to see that it is the distinctly British denominations that are in full nosedive.
what’s Lutheran...Wisconsin Synod and ELCA?
:o/
Including Asambleas de Dios.
:o\
¡Ay, caramba!
I know the UCC, Barack Obama’s Church as suffered something like a 50% loss in membership since the late 60’s IIRC.
I left my church because I know all the Obama voters in the church. I just can not longer pray beside them. There is also too much temptation to tell them what children of Satan they are.
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For instance, The PCUSA has had a calamitous decline. But, this chart makes it look like a drop to zero.
(Also note the sudden spike. That would be from the union of the northern and southern mainline presbyterians.)
Also the x axis (timeline) is different among denominations. Some go back to before 1940, the Methodist one looks like it begins about 1965 and the Presbyterian starts at 1980.
and the Presbyterian starts at 1980.
Which it shouldn't. I remember, as a kid in the '60s, complaints and alarm about declining numbers.
I like the look of those graphs. Thanks.
I'm still working on my list, too!
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Amazingly racist. Surely you didn't mean to imply that Mexicans have no brains, lol?
Alas, all that gorgeous real estate by the taste-makers of the late 19th and early 20th century: Upjohn, Richardson, Lafarge, Cram, Ferguson, Goodhue. Now pagan rites are performed within those glorious spaces.
Sorry, I did not imply that people coming from Mexico have no brains.
What I was trying to say was — “Look at the famous names you see on this list of converts.” They studied and discovered the truth of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostlic Church.
And here the same, unnormalized by population:
This is the number of clergy
Scientology has a lot of famous names among their number. Are they somehow validated thereby as well?
I’m not following your line of thinking at all, here. First, it’s look at all the people with brains, and amazingly no Hispanics. Then it’s famous people?
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