American Christianity Is on a Path Toward Being a Tool of Theocratic Authoritarianism

[metalwolf]

American Christianity Is on a Path Toward Being a Tool of Theocratic Authoritarianism

As nonevangelical faiths lose adherents, it won’t be too long before the vast majority of Christians in America are seriously right wing. This is not good.

newrepublic.com

Recent data analysis by Pew Research looked at the future of Christianity in the United States, and what it found was startling. By sometime around 2045, only about half of Americans could identify as Christian. If trends continue, it could fall to as little as 35 percent by 2070, and certainly no more than 54 percent. Simultaneously, the rise of the “nones” means there will likely be as many Americans with no religion by then.
There have been plenty of articles by very serious people who wring their hands and bemoan the loss of a common U.S. religion (and who ignore that there have always been Muslims, Jews, deists, atheists, agnostics, and other non-Christians here). Where will communities meet and bond? Where will morality come from? What will tie people together? However, such questions entirely miss the point that religion in this country has been a singularly divisive factor for well over a decade and is only becoming more so.

This is bad.

Christian fascists are using their religion as a weapon, Something tells me when Christ returns he will tell them that they didn't follow by his examples/

 

[Confederate Soldier]

WHAT. CHRISTIAN. FASCISTS?

 

[irosie91]

WHAT. CHRISTIAN. FASCISTS?

well---its happened before----but just about any ideology
can be so perverted

 

[JGalt]

American Christianity Is on a Path Toward Being a Tool of Theocratic Authoritarianism

As nonevangelical faiths lose adherents, it won’t be too long before the vast majority of Christians in America are seriously right wing. This is not good.

newrepublic.com

Recent data analysis by Pew Research looked at the future of Christianity in the United States, and what it found was startling. By sometime around 2045, only about half of Americans could identify as Christian. If trends continue, it could fall to as little as 35 percent by 2070, and certainly no more than 54 percent. Simultaneously, the rise of the “nones” means there will likely be as many Americans with no religion by then.
There have been plenty of articles by very serious people who wring their hands and bemoan the loss of a common U.S. religion (and who ignore that there have always been Muslims, Jews, deists, atheists, agnostics, and other non-Christians here). Where will communities meet and bond? Where will morality come from? What will tie people together? However, such questions entirely miss the point that religion in this country has been a singularly divisive factor for well over a decade and is only becoming more so.

This is bad.

Christian fascists are using their religion as a weapon, Something tells me when Christ returns he will tell them that they didn't follow by his examples/

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand what Christianity is. Ephesians 6:12 states what we're fighting against:

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

 

[DGS49]

With all due respect, whoever wrote that article is a moron. "Theocratic Authoritariansm" appears to be the state of affairs that exists when a religion (or its leadership) takes Biblical teachings seriously. For example, a religion that opposes gay marriage, abortion, and does not condone the "gay" lifestyle generally. Let's hear it for Theocratic Authoritariansm.

Projections of the percentage of Americans who profess one sort of religion or another decades out are even less reliable than yesterday's predictions of when the polar icecaps will melt.

However, it is clear that religion is being killed by decades of public school anti-religious indoctrination, and a cultural abhorrence for religion and traditional beliefs in general.

In my own World, the number of Catholic priests is already at a critical level, with many communities only being served by priests imported from the Third World. Today's yoots, totally absorbed with themselves, have no taste for giving one's life in service to the Church and its people. If you discount recent Hispanic imports, the Church will be at less than half its current population within 10-15 years, at which point it will collapse upon itself, in one way or another.

Glad I won't be around to see it.