U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time

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  1. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

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    No but it shows how children from these folks act and how bigoted they must be towards other children they interact with.. Bigoted parents just like racist parents raise children in that environment and they act accordingly..

    Reality is our friend, friend ;)
     
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    Most people are to some extent..
     
  3. cd8ed

    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I have no interest in your opinion, feel free to cite data or an unbiased source on bigotry against religious persons being the reason for its decline.
     
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    Good thing the Left never practices prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group!
     
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    Which is not bigotry. It's a dislike.

    bigotry
    [ big-uh-tree ]
    See synonyms for bigotry on Thesaurus.com
    noun, plural big·ot·ries.
    stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
    the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.
     
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    Some bigotry isn't a bad thing.
    Being intolerant to hate groups is bigotry towards them. I don't see that as a bad thing.
     
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    It has NOTHING to do with class. Peasant Class migrants work their way out of poverty and into the Middle Class on a regular basis. Some Upper Class (educated and from wealthy backgrounds) people live in poverty.

    And your comment "unless someone is a miser" reveals your profound privilege thinking. That's the aristocrat way, isn't it - to sneer at the economies of the peasants. Regarding such measures as beyond the pale, and beneath you.
     
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    That's utter BS. Renting is a LUXURY, no matter what you've been led to believe.

    Only a very small percentage of us can afford to pay out a million bucks over a lifetime, and not need to get anything back from it. That means you must have a SPARE million, which you don't mind throwing away or basically gifting to some random stranger to pay off their mortgage. The vast majority of us must get that money back, because we're too poor not to.

    Your perspective is seriously warped, with respect.
     
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    That's not what Progressives claim. They claim that people have no choice but to live in expensive cities.
     
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    Except when they simply trade one ideology for another. In this case, a religious ideology for a political one.
     
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    Let's hope it has the same effect on the political ideologues. Hostile as they are to just about everything that doesn't look and sound exactly like them.
     
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    And 'hate' is in the eye of the beholder. Ideologues have always operated on the basis that their definitions of evil are the only definitions. They rely on the old adage that 'my hate is better than your hate'.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeh. How more people didn’t abandon the right after what they have been doing lately I have no idea. Hopefully you are correct.

    I would argue it is evangelicals responsible for both though. They seem to corrupt everything they touch. I miss the day of true Christians.
     
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    It's fantastically revealing that you automatically declared only one particular varient of ideology problematic.

    It's like you unconsciously wanted to declare yourself an ideologue! I didn't mean it as a trap, but it worked to that effect in any case :D
     
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    Only the left would ban people from going to church with their fake Covid claims, then claim the fall in church attendance is due to a fall in religious preference.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Was COVID an issue in 2015?
    How about 2018?

    Can you comprehend the graph?
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am speaking statistically — the right wing is more violent on acts committed in the name of their ideology — and on topic which is the link between evangelicalism and the various declines.

    Sorry if that offends you
     
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    REa
    Really?
     
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    I suspect you wouldn't, I find many on the left find all sorts of contextual and self convincing rights to justify all their wrongs..
     
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    Not opinion.. This is person experience reading this forum alone..

    Surely you have read some of it, if not even contributed to some of those threads since 2011 :wink:

     
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    Well, as good as example as that is, I doubt you will get many religion haters to see that as a factor. The idea of the fall of faith tickles most of them because in their world God is spelled DNC and their Messiah is GOV ;)
     
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    I think understanding a graph is not the easiest of things for some to understand. I guess you have to somewhat math orientated.
     
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    Its an excuse, not a factor. Like anyone who has a belief other than theres should be tolerated.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ok. I am uninterested in your “person experience” also. Feel free to respond with a source — or don’t, because one doesn’t exist.
     
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    So you are intolerant of the left.
     

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