Comments on: The "unChristian" Society http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/10/unchristian-society.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:24:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Steve Caldwell http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/10/unchristian-society.html/comment-page-1#comment-1186 Steve Caldwell Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:32:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/10/the-unchristian-society.html#comment-1186 Jason wrote:<br/>-snip-<br/><i>"But even if a large percentage of 16 - to 29-year-olds remain immune to Christianity's charms, we won't be living in an "unChristian" world. Christian denominations in America hold a powerfully large majority, and it would take generations of shifts like this to eliminate such cultural dominance."</i><br/><br/>Jason,<br/><br/>When I was growing up, I never thought that the Berlin Wall would come down or Soviet Union - Warsaw Pact would fall apart politically.<br/><br/>Then in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it happened.<br/><br/>A shift in Christian cultural and political dominance is possible based on current demographic trends that you've highlighted and similiar trends posted on the Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance web site:<br/><br/><b>"By about the year 2042, non-Christians will outnumber the Christians in the U.S."</b><br/><br/><b>"14.1% do not follow any organized religion. This is an unusually rapid increase -- almost a doubling -- from only 8% in 1990. There are more Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans taken together."</b><br/><br/>Source:<br/>Religious identification in the U.S.<br/>http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_prac2.htm<br/><br/>So Christianity may find itself as a minority faith in the U.S. and no faith group will be in the majority. Jason wrote:
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“But even if a large percentage of 16 – to 29-year-olds remain immune to Christianity’s charms, we won’t be living in an “unChristian” world. Christian denominations in America hold a powerfully large majority, and it would take generations of shifts like this to eliminate such cultural dominance.”

Jason,

When I was growing up, I never thought that the Berlin Wall would come down or Soviet Union – Warsaw Pact would fall apart politically.

Then in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it happened.

A shift in Christian cultural and political dominance is possible based on current demographic trends that you’ve highlighted and similiar trends posted on the Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance web site:

“By about the year 2042, non-Christians will outnumber the Christians in the U.S.”

“14.1% do not follow any organized religion. This is an unusually rapid increase — almost a doubling — from only 8% in 1990. There are more Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans taken together.”

Source:
Religious identification in the U.S.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_prac2.htm

So Christianity may find itself as a minority faith in the U.S. and no faith group will be in the majority.

]]> By: Hekateris http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/10/unchristian-society.html/comment-page-1#comment-1185 Hekateris Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:47:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/10/the-unchristian-society.html#comment-1185 I think a lot of Christians, particularly Fundamentalist Christians, don't understand is how badly Bush has damaged them. 'Christian' in general means Fundamentalism and Evangelism, two words that for many, many, many is equal to bigotry, prejudice, sexism, favoritism and and the destruction of the Constitution of this country. Amongst other things.<br/><br/>To be frank, I don't want or need to learn more about Christianity, I've had enough of it shoved down my throat in the last twenty years, thank you very much. I think a lot of Christians, particularly Fundamentalist Christians, don’t understand is how badly Bush has damaged them. ‘Christian’ in general means Fundamentalism and Evangelism, two words that for many, many, many is equal to bigotry, prejudice, sexism, favoritism and and the destruction of the Constitution of this country. Amongst other things.

To be frank, I don’t want or need to learn more about Christianity, I’ve had enough of it shoved down my throat in the last twenty years, thank you very much.

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