The Christian Right is in Decline

[XponentialChaos]

Money, money, money. It's all about the money.

 

[BULLDOG]

The New York Times wants evangelicalism to be in decline. My guess that the writers and editors don't even know any evangelicals and interviewed none for this article.

The NYT is just reporting the fact that religion is in decline. The decline started when politicians promised unethical religious leaders that acceptance of immoral right wing politicians would give them more power. It was a literal deal with the devil.

 

[surada]

Nazi stands for National Socialists.

They embraced what tenants of socialism that suited them and discarded the rest.

Again, it was only to control the populace.

They had no real interest in it other than to control people

For example, Hitler was terrified that the German people might revolt like they did during WW1 in Germany due to poor living conditions. As a result, he would run massive spending deficits and spent money either on the military or social programs. In fact, the German people had a higher standard of living till the very end of the war in Germany than any country on earth. Hitler essentially bought their souls with such spending, as a war weary people chose to overlook mass genocide to boot.

Money, money, money. It's all about the money.

Nope. Hitler put socialists and Communists in prison. He just used the German Democratic Socialist party to get his foot in the door.

 

[Mashmont]

I can't get past the NYT paywall, but as usual I found the same thing somewhere else. Great read - Sad what Trumpism has done to Evangelicals.

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Activists imagined a glorious future. “Home-schoolers will be inordinately represented in the highest levels of leadership and power in the next generation,” Ned Ryun, a former Bush speechwriter, said at a 2005 Christian home-schooling convention. Ryun was the director of a group called Generation Joshua, which worked to get home-schooled kids into politics. The name came from the Old Testament. Moses had led the chosen people out of exile, but it was his successor, Joshua, who conquered the Holy Land.​

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But the evangelicals who thought they were about to take over America were destined for disappointment. On Thursday, PRRI released startling new polling data showing just how much ground the religious right has lost. PRRI’s 2020 Census of American Religion, based on a survey of nearly half a million people, shows a precipitous decline in the share of the population identifying as white evangelical, from 23% in 2006 to 14.5% last year. In 2020, as in every year since 2013, the largest religious group in the United States was the religiously unaffiliated.​

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In addition to shrinking as a share of the population, white evangelicals were also the oldest religious group in the United States, with a median age of 56. “It’s not just that they are dying off, but it is that they’re losing younger members,” Jones told me. As the group has become older and smaller, Jones said, “a real visceral sense of loss of cultural dominance” has set in.​

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White evangelicals once saw themselves “as the owners of mainstream American culture and morality and values,” said Jones. Now they are just another subculture.​

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From this fact derives much of our country’s cultural conflict. It helps explain not just the rise of Donald Trump, but also the growth of QAnon and even the escalating conflagration over critical race theory. “It’s hard to overstate the strength of this feeling, among white evangelicals in particular, of America being a white Christian country,” said Jones. “This sense of ownership of America just runs so deep in white evangelical circles.” The feeling that it’s slipping away has created an atmosphere of rage, resentment and paranoia.​

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QAnon is essentially a millenarian movement, with Trump taking the place of Jesus. Adherents dream of the coming of what they call the storm, when the enemies of the MAGA movement will be rounded up and executed, and Trump restored to his rightful place of leadership.​

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“It’s not unlike a belief in the second coming of Christ,” said Jones. “That at some point God will reorder society and set things right. I think that when a community feels itself in crisis, it does become more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other things that tell them that what they’re experiencing is not ultimately what’s going to happen.”​

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I was frightened by the religious right in its triumphant phase. But it turns out that the movement is just as dangerous in decline. Maybe more so. It didn’t take long for the cocky optimism of Generation Joshua to give way to the nihilism of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. If they can’t own the country, they’re ready to defile it.​

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The Christian right is in decline

The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right’s influence in America. White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country.

www.standardspeaker.com

I can't speak for evangelicals, but I can tell you Trump has invigorated Catholics like no one else. The huge victory against Roe has shown us everything we do and pray for is working, and it's just the beginning. Our group is also working on ousting so-called Catholic Congressmen support atheist positions like abortion. We are clearly striking a chord with hispanics.

 

[JohnDB]

Just so that it's clear....

The Christians have been in decline since around 33 AD....

And I'm guessing that the op hasn't quite figured that out yet.

 

[beautress]

They are partisan far rightwing zealots.
They aren't Christians.

"They" are Christians if they believe in Jesus Christ. Deo gracias!

 

[surada]

Wow, ^^^this^^^ is top-notch BlueAnon kookery here. LOL!

Not all Baptists are hypocrites.

Donald Trump and the 10 Commandments – Baptist News Global

When Donald Trump and his supporters claim that he cares about this very basic, beloved list of divine commands, yet his behavior so starkly contradicts that assertion, it is time that truth be heard and justice dispensed.

baptistnews.com

 

[surada]

Can't afford it, eh?


What a pathetic TDS grunt. If anything has affected religion, it is decades of leftwing organizations indoctrinating children with atheistic dogma.

Nope. They have done it to themselves trashing their faith for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump and the 10 Commandments – Baptist News Global

When Donald Trump and his supporters claim that he cares about this very basic, beloved list of divine commands, yet his behavior so starkly contradicts that assertion, it is time that truth be heard and justice dispensed.

baptistnews.com

 

[BULLDOG]

Can't afford it, eh?


What a pathetic TDS grunt. If anything has affected religion, it is decades of leftwing organizations indoctrinating children with atheistic dogma.

So your god is too weak to stand up to competing beliefs? I thought he was supposed to be all powerful.

 

[beautress]

Nope. They have done it to themselves trashing their faith for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump and the 10 Commandments – Baptist News Global

When Donald Trump and his supporters claim that he cares about this very basic, beloved list of divine commands, yet his behavior so starkly contradicts that assertion, it is time that truth be heard and justice dispensed.

baptistnews.com

Did you follow "they" around to see if they attended church? Because if you didn't, you don't know for certain your rants might be true and might be false,
might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false. Get it? I never heard of anyone putting Trump on a cross and worshipping him, so my hunch is you just inserted another false accusation against someone you could care less about. In fact, your entire several contributions to this thread are worthy of ignoring you over, so sayonara because I just can't stand idle falsifications presented as fact.

 

[surada]

Did you follow "they" around to see if they attended church? Because if you didn't, you don't know for certain your rants might be true and might be false,
might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false, might be true and might be false. Get it? I never heard of anyone putting Trump on a cross and worshipping him, so my hunch is you just inserted another false accusation against someone you could care less about. In fact, your entire several contributions to this thread are worthy of ignoring you over, so sayonara because I just can't stand idle falsifications presented as fact.

Trump's sons claim he saved Christianity. Trump is an obscene, profane glutton.

Donald Trump and the 10 Commandments – Baptist News Global

When Donald Trump and his supporters claim that he cares about this very basic, beloved list of divine commands, yet his behavior so starkly contradicts that assertion, it is time that truth be heard and justice dispensed.

baptistnews.com