Current Events > America is meant to be teeming with Christians, but posting on CE for years...

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...I get the impression that I have been greatly, greatly mislead.

Is it because most CE posters are millenials?


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It's because CE is not representative of the population.

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MeIon Bread posted...

Is it because most CE posters are millenials?

Pretty much. America is still like 70% Christian but it's mostly older people and conservatives

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America is full of people claiming to be Christians but oddly the message they take from the Bible is to be cruel to the poor.

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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

America is full of people claiming to be Christians but oddly the message they take from the Bible is to be cruel to the poor.

To attribute it to the Bible implies people read it. They don't.

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Depends on where you are. You won't find a lot in New England or the West Coast, but come down to the South and you will.
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There are a lot of Christians here. You wont find a decent sized town without a few Christian churches and there are many catholic schools.

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Doe posted...

It's because CE is not representative of the population.

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Doe posted...

It's because CE is not representative of the population.

but yeah, this too.

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https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

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Wii_Shaker posted...

https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

I absolutely detest how every study or survey groups in agnostics with atheists. They are two completely different things. Agnostics in America are basically just Christians with doubts.

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Christianity continues to die out: https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

The data shows a wide gap between older Americans (Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation) and Millennials in their levels of religious affiliation and attendance. More than eight-in-ten members of the Silent Generation (those born between 1928 and 1945) describe themselves as Christians (84%), as do three-quarters of Baby Boomers (76%). In stark contrast, only half of Millennials (49%) describe themselves as Christians; four-in-ten are religious nones, and one-in-ten Millennials identify with non-Christian faiths.

Only about one-in-three Millennials say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month. Roughly two-thirds of Millennials (64%) attend worship services a few times a year or less often, including about four-in-ten who say they seldom or never go. Indeed, there are as many Millennials who say they never attend religious services (22%) as there are who say they go at least once a week (22%).

While the trends are clear the U.S. is steadily becoming less Christian and less religiously observant as the share of adults who are not religious grows self-described Christians report that they attend religious services at about the same rate today as in 2009. Today, 62% of Christians say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month, which is identical to the share who said the same in 2009. In other words, the nations overall rate of religious attendance is declining not because Christians are attending church less often, but rather because there are now fewer Christians as a share of the population.

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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

America is full of people claiming to be Christians but oddly the message they take from the Bible is to be cruel to the poor.

And hate gay people. Or people who loom different than them. Or people who have a different religion.

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dolomedes posted...

this

when i lived in the rural south, i was often uncomfortable discussing my lack of belief in god - or, as was more often the case for me, discussing evolution.

people in this country are very religious (less so, young folk) and it's odd. hold firm their convictions, but can't support them well

I've grown up in a small city with the headquarters of several orthopedic companies, and still in middle school our biology teacher was always like "well legally I have to talk about evolution, but let's be real, they look similar because they had a common DESIGNER not ANCESTOR."

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