Is Christianity still relevant?

[desecration]

In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” now stands at 26%, up from 17% in 2009.

Both Protestantism and Catholicism are experiencing losses of population share. Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. And one-in-five adults (20%) are Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their numbers swell. Self-described atheists now account for 4% of U.S. adults, up modestly but significantly from 2% in 2009; agnostics make up 5% of U.S. adults, up from 3% a decade ago; and 17% of Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12% in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult population.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religio...line-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

 

[ll74]

Relevant to who?

 

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[DaddysSissySlut24]

Absolutely! It still has all the power it has in the past to support that most important demographic, the narcissist!

 

[PaxNurgle]

When people see self-proclaimed "Christians" flocking to the banner of morally corrupt, greedy and amoral leaders like Donald Trump (or Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, etc.) then they see the blatant hypocrisy of it all, and this in turn causes them to turn away from Christianity. If that's what "Christianity" means to people, then it is a natural reaction for kind, generous, honest and compassionate people to want nothing to do with it.

 

[Bray123]

Some people need the threat of eternal damnation to stop them from being criminals, others commit crime because all they have to do is ask for forgiveness at a later date.

So Christianity both prevents and promotes crime and all other poor behaviours, which is exactly how the people who call themselves 'Christians' like it.

 

[Chernosoth]

The Second Religiosity will be starting soon, or maybe it started last year during the Super Bowl. The historian Oswald Spengler described it a century ago as a standard stage of civilizations in decline. Progressives lose faith in progress and go running back to more comforting religions. The churches that kept their appeal, their magic, will gain members for a while, mostly from the comfortable middle classes. And that wraps up Christianity, with at most a century left in it. The new religions with centuries of future ahead will be created by poor and marginalized people.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

People who claim not to be Christian are very often libs, which is arguably even worse.

Liberalism is Christianity in decay in the same way that Fascism is Capitalism in decay.

 

[Bray123]

The Second Religiosity will be starting soon, or maybe it started last year during the Super Bowl. The historian Oswald Spengler described it a century ago as a standard stage of civilizations in decline. Progressives lose faith in progress and go running back to more comforting religions. The churches that kept their appeal, their magic, will gain members for a while, mostly from the comfortable middle classes. And that wraps up Christianity, with at most a century left in it. The new religions with centuries of future ahead will be created by poor and marginalized people.

You mean, like how Christianity, Islam and Judaism were when they started?

 

[wizzard426]

The new religions with centuries of future ahead will be created by poor and marginalized people.

That explains why brown people build boats out of trash to escape the new religion of communism

 

[PaxNurgle]

People who claim not to be Christian are very often libs, which is arguably even worse.

Liberalism is Christianity in decay in the same way that Fascism is Capitalism in decay.

If, as you argue, that liberalism is merely Christianity without faith, guidance, or moral principles.

At the very root, what Jesus taught in the Bible- compassion, love, tolerance and fairness, are values that are often shunned by conservatives (or, at least, the conservatives of today, not necessarily the conservatives of a generation ago.)

 

[Chernosoth]

Homeless kids in Miami created their own religion.

 

[TrailerHitch]

No more unbelievable than the core of any other religion. All religion counts on the faith of its members.