"The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become."Posted on 04/07/2009 7:35:22 PM PDT by Gordon Greene
"The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
(Read the story for more info) This is obviously in response to the evil dictator, Barack's proclamation that we are not a Christian country.
Of all the stupid times to push the idea that God is dead, Easter has to be the stupidest.
A story worth noting (before Newsweek fails miserably and has to be rescued by Obama and becomes a propaganda rag for the leftists... Oh yeah. They already are that).
“Easter has to be the stupidest.”
They ALWAYS push this kind of junk around Easter.
Ummm..., not in terms of a P.R. person trying to ride a “hot-button-issue” and boost circulation... :-)
“Of all the stupid times to push the idea that God is dead, Easter has to be the stupidest.”
Yeah... how ‘bout this story.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224529/posts
The liberal atheists are firing on all cylinders this year.
Perhaps the wealth and affluence of America has made religion and Christianity less of an influence than it might have been 40 or 50 years ago.
But that situation is changing pretty quickly.
Actually the fact that Newsweek is trumpeting this is a sign that interest in Christianity is about to turn around in a hurry.
Hat tip to GG on this one!
This is when the media always do it. "
Personally I think that the number should drop about 50%, because anyone who votes for an abortion and gay marriage loving politician is no Christian!
Christianity isn’t a popularity contest anyway. It’s about Truth.
“Actually the fact that Newsweek is trumpeting this is a sign that interest in Christianity is about to turn around in a hurry.”
That and the fact that oppression always brings out the best in the faithful. I think we’re about to get a big fat fistful of that... Paul made the best of it. Reckon we better be prepared to do the same.
Well, it’s still a worthwhile story to read. The beginning of it starts off as follows...
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It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth—read over the document after its release in March, he was struck by a single sentence. For a believer like Mohler—a starched, unflinchingly conservative Christian, steeped in the theology of his particular province of the faith, devoted to producing ministers who will preach the inerrancy of the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the only means to eternal life—the central news of the survey was troubling enough: the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. Then came the point he could not get out of his mind: while the unaffiliated have historically been concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, the report said, “this pattern has now changed, and the Northeast emerged in 2008 as the new stronghold of the religiously unidentified.” As Mohler saw it, the historic foundation of America’s religious culture was cracking.
“That really hit me hard,” he told me last week. “The Northwest was never as religious, never as congregationalized, as the Northeast, which was the foundation, the home base, of American religion. To lose New England struck me as momentous.” Turning the report over in his mind, Mohler posted a despairing online column on the eve of Holy Week lamenting the decline—and, by implication, the imminent fall—of an America shaped and suffused by Christianity. “A remarkable culture-shift has taken place around us,” Mohler wrote. “The most basic contours of American culture have been radically altered. The so-called Judeo-Christian consensus of the last millennium has given way to a post-modern, post-Christian, post-Western cultural crisis which threatens the very heart of our culture.” When Mohler and I spoke in the days after he wrote this, he had grown even gloomier. “Clearly, there is a new narrative, a post-Christian narrative, that is animating large portions of this society,” he said from his office on campus in Louisville, Ky.
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We are in a post-modern, post-Christian world... and that does seem to be in line with what the Bible says is going to be happening, close to the time when Jesus Christ returns to set up His Kingdom over the earth and rule the nations of the world from Israel...
Thought you might want to ping your Evo-atheist pals to celebrate.
“Christianity isn’t a popularity contest anyway. It’s about Truth.”
Nothing in your post innacurate. Christians are known by the fruit they bear and who they support is no exception. The Word says that “Bad company corrupts good character” and that is proven out nearly every time it’s tried.
“We are in a post-modern, post-Christian world... and that does seem to be in line with what the Bible says is going to be happening, close to the time when Jesus Christ returns to set up His Kingdom over the earth and rule the nations of the world from Israel...”
We’re movin’ on up to the edge of the last days. Let’s just pray we can get as many over to the right side before the scale tips.
The article was written by an Episcopalian. He should know all about dying churches!
God:
The decline and Fall of sNoozweek!
“Thought you might want to ping your Evo-atheist pals to celebrate.’
In a party like this, the more the merrier!
“It’s the end of the world as we know it,
And I feel fine”
Let’s not forget,
“The truth gets blurred like a wet letter,
But since I gave up hope I feel a lot better!”
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