[DoctorBulldog]

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[RIghtwardHo]

Sadly, I can’t say I’m surprised.

[Alex Murphy]

Evangelical Protestants have become more devoted to their religious beliefs over the last three decades, even as Catholics have become less attached to their faith, new research finds. The denominational differences come even as religious affiliations have decreased overall in America, with the number of people who claim no religious affiliation at all doubling from 7 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2000, said study researcher Philip Schwadel, a sociologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Nevertheless, Schwadel said, these unaffiliated individuals seem to be dropping out of religious institutions that they were previously ambivalent about. People who feel strongly about their faith are as numerous as ever. "The proportion of Americans who say they have a very strong religious affiliation over time is very stable," Schwadel told LiveScience.

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[Karliner]

Are the mosques growing?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'm not suprised the number of Christians is decreasing. I think the # of non-Evangelical Protestants is decreasing as well.

The wheat separating from the chaff...It was foretold.

Thats why the Catholic bishops need to stop pandering to liberal minority groups and the government and just take a stand. They're afraid it will cause a loss in membership, but the truth is, if these people don't represent or live Catholic values, why retain them anyway and let them taint the title?

They need to just accept that its going to happen, no matter what they do, because it was foretold in the Bible.

The wheat are separating from the chaff. The goats from the sheep. The lukewarm from the fervent. Just pray and roll with it.

[SaraJohnson]

South and central Americans immigrants identify themselves as Catholics culturally, but they also come from a tradition of marxist hatred of their church given Catholic history. American-American catholics don’t have a history of church abuse of power like the foreigners do because of the constitution.

I am not surprised that a larger percentage of Catholics are faithless and rebellous in surveys. That will increase as people from Central and South American roots increases. They came to America from oppressive foreign lands in which the Catholic church played a dark part.

[Colofornian]

Here's an example: Pew Forum said in October that white Catholics favor "same-sex 'marriage'" 54-38% -- see:
Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012 Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided

With some segments of the church, you almost have to forget about converting people (at least into that segment of the church)...lest the newbies coming onboard there become like the rest and become worldly like them!

[evangmlw]

Jesus said the last days before His return would be similar to the days of Noah. Noah and his family were the only believers left on a very populated planet in his time. As we approach the last day, it would stand to reason there will be less and less TRUE BELIEVERS. Many will one day say to Him, “Lord, Lord,” and He will say to them in response, “Depart from Me, I never knew you.”

[onyx]

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Many make none
Have YOU contributed?

[RitaOK]

One thing about it, there are upward of 30,000 choices for Christian non-Catholics to drop in on, when things don’t go their way. Catholics are split in two, between liberals who demand that the Church swing with the times, and the other half who know the Church and her tenets are timeless, based on natural law and principles of the Creator and Christ Jesus.

Catholics are unhappy with the other half of Catholics, but both halves intend to stay and fight for their vision of the Church, or else they’re gone by now. Both halves know the Church is just that— the Church. The Catholic Church, from which all other formations scattered, left, departed, hence divided and divided infinitum exponentially, on and on, always finding a home somewhere for their own opinion or their own interpretation of the faith.

By and large Catholics won’t do that, they may leave the Church but its not so much to become something else.

[hinckley buzzard]

number of strongly affiliated people stayed basically steady around 37 percent, with a small, short-lived bump to 43 percent in 1984 and 1985.

The Moral Majority.