The militant, MAGA intrusion into conservative, Evangelical Christianity in America is emptying the churches.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/bloomberg-trumps-militant-christian.html

"That Trump doesn't [and never has] attended church, and has obviously never read the book he hawks for $59.99, seems of interest exclusively to his political opponents," said Wilkinson.

"In a single decade," according to Wilkinson, " from 2013 to 2023, the percentage of Americans saying that religion is the most important thing, or among the most important things in their life plummeted from 72% to 53%," he noted.

Wlkinson cites Dr. Michael Emerson, a sociologist at Rice University, who says, "The now intimate tie between religion and a host of social and political positions, for many people, either drives them away from religion altogether, or leads them to distance themselves."

According to Wilkinson, the increased infusion of secular politics into conservative, Evangelical doctrine and practice led to an increase in the number of people leaving their churches. What started as a slow trickle in the 1980's and 90's has turned into a flood of people, mostly those who see Christian faith as a grace-based lifestyle based on a set of values taught by Jesus, as opposed to what Kristin Kobes Du Mez described as "the culmination of their half-century long pursuit of a militant Christian masculinity that disdains pluralism and valorizes masculine aggression."

[Bo Zarts]

1. Everything Trump touches dies.

Including religion.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Assume for argument's sake that the Bible is a blueprint and mandate for living righteously

What must their Savior think about these nominal Christians who drive decent folk away from salvation? Theirs is a perversion of their ostensible Lord’s words.

[Aristus]

3. Mrs. Aristus' conservative evangelical church's refusal to denounce the jaw-droppingly un-Christian Trump

is the reason she left the church, became a liberal, and an atheist.

So I guess I own them a debt of thanks.

[Skittles]

5. good

the less religion, the better

religion is NOT a requirement to be a decent person

[roscoeroscoe]

6. Megachurches

Bad, bad, bad. I understand the whole 'part of a community' appeal, but yikes. It's like self-selecting to hang out with greedy assholes.

Wrong community! Jeez.