I've written about how millennials are leaving organized religion and its associated anti-LGBT animus in droves. As a result, the only religions holding on to membership (barely) are ones with super-high birth rates and very conservative views. In the process, conservative faiths are becoming increasingly insular and preaching to an echo chamber. This is creating a downward spiral of church membership overall as less and less millennials want to be a part of a brand that is increasingly unpalatable. And make no mistake, it is millennials who are leaving conservative denominations the fastest.
As an atheist and as an LGBT activist, this seems like a good thing. The faster conservative religion is overwhelmingly seen as mean, crazy, violent, hateful, misogynistic and anti-science, the faster we as a society can move on. I'd rather America looked more like somewhere people want to live, than someplace that generates political and religious refugees.
As such, here are the things atheists see hastening conservative Christianity's descent into nearly complete cultural irrelevance.
1. Fighting battles you've already lost.
2. Deciding who's Christian based on how much they hate gays.
3. Treating women like cattle.
4. Rejecting science.
5. Condemning everyone else's sex lives but their own.
6. Telling people freedom of religion is only for Christians.
7. Telling us all the awful things they'd do if they didn't believe in God.
8. Taking out their phobias on children.
9. Equating religious freedom with a special right to discriminate.
10. Showing how much you love people by harassing them.
DETAILS: 10 Ways Right-Wing Christians Are Destroying Christianity
Christian Conservatives are their own worst enemy when it comes to attracting more believers.
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