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Christianity In The USA
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Welcome. May your faith be stronger than your vehicles… someday
You never know, his faith may spontaneously combust some day.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/19/steven-lawson-pastor-removed/75296634007/
This story is a month old but still worth sharing. A fairly renowned pastor was removed from leadership after he was discovered to be having an affair. His fellow Elders did the right thing, and it was not the easy thing to do.
This story is a month old but still worth sharing. A fairly renowned pastor was removed from leadership after he was discovered to be having an affair. His fellow Elders did the right thing, and it was not the easy thing to do.
The guy above (CosmicSkeptic/Alex O' Connor) has done quite a turn around in the last few years. First time I heard about him was around 2022 when he was still a Hitchens/Dawkins type of atheist. He's still an atheist but he doesn't have the same vitrol and anger that he did back then. He did a lot of debates with Christians in the last few years and that seems to have tempered his view on Christians all being uneducated simpletons that believe in things without evidence or argument.
More Young Men Are Now Religious Than Women in the U.S.
Infographic: More Young Men Are Now Religious Than Women in the U.S.
This chart shows the share of U.S. male and female respondents who say they are religious, by generation (in percent).
www.statista.com
More Young Men Are Now Religious Than Women in the U.S.
Infographic: More Young Men Are Now Religious Than Women in the U.S.
This chart shows the share of U.S. male and female respondents who say they are religious, by generation (in percent).
Also this varies widely by state. Big blue states tend to be Christian wastelands and very few women participate, probably below 25% for women and around 35% for men. Skews older as well.
You can't debate your way around Pascal's wager.
I want to add that there are 380,000 churches in the United States, and the majority of them are Protestant churches.
My personal experience is that a large percentage of those are non-denominational "Bible" churches with relatively small congregations, oftentimes in non-descript buildings.
Anecdotally, I believe most of these would be considered "trad" and "based". The pastor is a man. They believe homosexuality is a sin. They believe abortion is murder. They are definitely not "woke".
It's easy to see the big, old, prominent Presbyterian or Methodist church with a rainbow flag on the front and believe that's representative of Protestantism in the United States, but I do not believe that to be the case.
My personal experience is that a large percentage of those are non-denominational "Bible" churches with relatively small congregations, oftentimes in non-descript buildings.
Anecdotally, I believe most of these would be considered "trad" and "based". The pastor is a man. They believe homosexuality is a sin. They believe abortion is murder. They are definitely not "woke".
It's easy to see the big, old, prominent Presbyterian or Methodist church with a rainbow flag on the front and believe that's representative of Protestantism in the United States, but I do not believe that to be the case.
If it wasn't for Evangelicals, America would be a communist hell-hole by now. So give credit where credits due. I don't blame the good guys for what the bad guys are doing.
That said, many of the mainline Protestant denominations have been targeted for infiltration by the left because they held the most institutional power. It doesn't matter what the institution is, the left always seeks to infect and propagate itself. Everytime the left successfully corrupts enough of any one denomination, the conservatives break off and form a new organization to keep things pure. This is what happened with the PCUSA, and led to the formation of the PCA. Same Presbyterian denomination, but one group is pozzed and the other is not.
Based on all of the data I've seen, Protestantism is the only one of the three main branches of Christianity that consistently votes Republican over Democrat. Hopefully this will change since it is becoming ever more apparent that the left is secular and atheist to the core.
I find it alarming how many Catholics vote Democrat considering it's the party of death. Mind blowing.
I grew up going to Catholic church off and on, and now go to a Protestant church like described above. I like this environment a lot more. And it is much more conservative.
It doesn't even seem like a lot of American Catholics are religious. Just woke and gay like everyone else in the big cities. And they like telling people they're Catholic without actually practicing it.
Protestants have phonies too but in general it seems a lot more sincere. It also seems like a lot of rural Protestants get married right after high school. So less women sleeping around, although you still have to watch out for it. Meanwhile Catholic girls have their reputation for a reason.
It doesn't even seem like a lot of American Catholics are religious. Just woke and gay like everyone else in the big cities. And they like telling people they're Catholic without actually practicing it.
Protestants have phonies too but in general it seems a lot more sincere. It also seems like a lot of rural Protestants get married right after high school. So less women sleeping around, although you still have to watch out for it. Meanwhile Catholic girls have their reputation for a reason.
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I find it alarming how many Catholics vote for abortion rights, but condemn capital punishment as "murder". Last time I checked, babies in utero haven't committed any crimes. We can repent before God and be forgiven for our sins, but that does not preclude us having to pay the price in this life for crimes we've committed.
Yeah, abortion is what I'm specifically talking about. Very straightforward. Capital punishment on the other hand is a little more complex.
It's not just Churches. Forums, games, communities, everything. The left is a cancer.
Spacebattles broke off into a the Sietch and a few other forums. SCP broke off into RCP because they put gay pride on their website and banned anyone who complained about it.
The left says everything is political. It's not a statement of fact.
It's a threat.
One thing I've noticed is that, at least in the wider Midwest, Catholics tend to be concentrated in the cities due to historical immigration patterns from Italy, Poland, etc. So if you take a look at Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, or Chicago, you'll see they have huge Catholic populations. But the surrounding rural regions tend to be mostly Protestant.
So because Catholics never had the same strong rural base, they were always much more prone to liberal influences. Of course there are exceptions like the Catholic Cajuns in Southern Louisiana who are religious and conservative, but still more laid-back about things like alcohol than the evangelicals to the north.
So because Catholics never had the same strong rural base, they were always much more prone to liberal influences. Of course there are exceptions like the Catholic Cajuns in Southern Louisiana who are religious and conservative, but still more laid-back about things like alcohol than the evangelicals to the north.
Being very anti-smoking and drinking seems to be mostly as Protestant thing - especially with the "low church" types like Pentecostals and Southern Baptists. Even Catholics that are pretty serious about their faith as opposed to your typical cultural Catholic seem to not really mind regular alcohol consumption or smoking. I will say that with Protestants, there is the stereotype of the super theologically minded Reform/Calvinist guy that likes to smoke so that's an exception to the trend I just mentioned.
The low church opposition to alcohol goes back to England during the industrial revolution. You had millions of people going to work in the factories, which paid more than farm work, but it still wasn't much.
Often the men would get their pay and blow it all in the bar on their day off, and leave nothing for their wife and kids. If they would not drink, and would spend all their money on supporting their family, plus setting aside a little in savings, then they could make ends meet, and over the course of years their saving could actually build up enough to buy a little cottage, and to pay for the children to learn to read and write.
The temperance movement developed in this environment, trying to stop the scourge of alcoholic fathers leaving their families in poverty, starving and freezing. They had a pretty good point, because the masses were living in squalor, and yet actually had the resources to live well if they would be hard working, prudent, and frugal.
The change towards more liberalism happened with the move to the suburbs in the 1960s/70s/80s, where theses communities became diluted, as outlined by EMJ in "The Slaughter of Cities".