That’s a good article, I have recently been interested in the concept of Americans losing their religion. From my perspective, at least in the Northeast, it’s probably more than predicted. Many people around hear are only at church on Christmas and Easter, and have no real attachment to church. I see more churches closing their doors and moving into strip malls and small house based congregations. Most Christian churches are only the old heads anymore.
Americans around here are so strapped in the rust belt that going to church is a luxury they can’t afford anymore. These churches cling to and pander to the old who have money, meanwhile neglecting the younger generations like myself. Churches don’t like millennials who are in debt up to their eyeballs in college debt. I mean how can you tithe 10% of your $7.57 you have left in your bank account and you just got paid two days ago? You see all these q-tip corpses up at the pulpit and it’s all so unrelated to modern struggles of being a youth in the digital age.
Christianity, here anyways, is missing the social and cultural shift. Then again, Christianity is stuck in the past and always will be in my opinion. In an ever evolving world of internet activism, I don’t think religion can survive. These arrogant moronic old crypt zombie pastors record their sermons and hundreds if not thousands of critics watch and rip them apart on the internet. Suddenly they have lost the safety of talking in their private churches. They’ve become exposed, and as more and more people see them for the dinosaurs they are, less and less modern tech savvy people will accept their rhetoric.
Church greed is explicitly on display in Pennsylvania, and many of the people I know are fed up with it. We are grinding ourselves to dust trying to eek out a living, and the church is crying it needs more money to pay $80,000 to fix the church organ because the old heads want to sing off key to great grandpa’s boring and horrendous hymns. There are a many great things ruining Christianity here, and it’s all Christianity’s fault. It’ll continue, and as it dwindles, the fanatics and loonies will be the few left in church, and we will enter an age of religious violence.