Article: The Great Unchurching of America

[briancamdudetenger2018]

those type of religious folks who are christians catholics and evengelicles that do not go to church most of the time and only do go on the main holidays are rinos aka religious in name only

 

[Wilson23]

 

[wallstreetguy]

In every leftist revolution, the lefties go after the church (Mexican, Haitian, Spanish, French, Russian, etc). That whets their appetites for more. It is usually dated with former allies.

 

[eric_erosfan]

In every leftist revolution, the lefties go after the church (Mexican, Haitian, Spanish, French, Russian, etc). That whets their appetites for more. It is usually dated with former allies.

Nobody is going after anyone. People are just not as dumb anymore. They learned science.

 

[Wilson23]

 

[Wilson23]

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/07/sorry-gop-theres-no-christian-revival/
Sorry, GOP. There’s no Christian revival
Republicans are betting the midterms on mass conversions that aren't happening

But none of that seems to register with MAGA leadership right now. They’ve convinced themselves — or at least are trying to persuade their donors and followers — that the U.S. is undergoing a massive religious revival. Right-wing media has been pushing the view that huge numbers of Americans, especially young Americans, are converting to fundamentalist Christianity. The hype at AmericaFest suggests they are pinning their hopes on this imaginary religious awakening to deliver big wins to the Republicans in November’s elections.

As my colleague Russell Payne and I reported on in November for Salon’s “Standing Room Only,” Fox News in particular has been running a number of stories claiming a “Charlie Kirk effect” — that the MAGA influencer’s killing in September led to a tidal wave of Americans, especially young Americans, discovering or returning to Christianity.

Since then, there’s been a constant drumbeat of similar claims from right-wing media. “Gen Z embracing faith as more young people return to religion,” Fox News declared again on Dec. 21. NewsNation ran a new year segment that reported a “religious revival” was taking place among the young. This follows many similar segments from both channels dating back months, all swearing to their largely elderly audience that the Zoomers are flooding church services, despite what they may be seeing at their own local congregation. Conservative ministers keep insisting on social media that waves of young people are converting, even as no such numbers show up in surveys with more rigorous research methods.

Much of AmericaFest was also devoted to propping up the narrative that young adults are giving up sex and secularism for Christian nationalism in record numbers. Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, 25, spoke about how Christianity calls on women to “Get married, have babies, have as many as you can and as early in your married life as you can.” Pastor Keenan Clark, 30, preached, “If you have not submitted to the lordship of Jesus Christ, though you were a conservative, you will find yourself in the bowels of a devil’s hell.” Angela Halili, 29, and Arielle Reitsma, 36, hosts of the “Girls Gone Bible” podcast, preached about saving sex for marriage because “sexual immorality is the only sin that you commit against your own body.”

The presence of Halili and Reitsma is a big clue that this Christian hype may be rooted in something other than an outpouring of faith. As I reported last year, there’s overwhelming evidence that the two podcast hosts were working as poker girls — women who make money at underground poker games by offering flirting and often much more to male players — while launching a Christian channel devoted to preaching the virtues of chastity to young women. Whatever they personally believe, their entire endeavor is rooted in dishonesty, a sin the Bible tends to have more to say about than sexual “immorality.”

There is no evidence-based reason to believe there’s a religious revival among the young that is about to create massive election windfalls for Republicans. On the contrary, a December report from Pew Research found that, “On average, young adults remain much less religious than older Americans. Today’s young adults also are less religious than young people were a decade ago.”

 

[Saint_Ann]

I've already been to two church funerals this year. Beautiful structures. I don't understand those churches that meet in deserted strip malls. No pomp. You gotta have some pomp to get butts in the pews...or folding chairs.

 

[Wilson23]

I've already been to two church funerals this year. Beautiful structures. I don't understand those churches that meet in deserted strip malls. No pomp. You gotta have some pomp to get butts in the pews...or folding chairs.

The space is cheap.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The space is cheap.

Retail is dead.

 

[Bray123]

those type of religious folks who are christians catholics and evengelicles that do not go to church most of the time and only do go on the main holidays are rinos aka religious in name only

I recall from a time when I was forced to have religion shouted at me that someone a long time ago said that it wasn't necessary to go to church to pray.

They may have mentioned 'Hypocrites' and 'Lazarus'.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

I recall from a time when I was forced to have religion shouted at me that someone a long time ago said that it wasn't necessary to go to church to pray.

They may have mentioned 'Hypocrites' and 'Lazarus'.

oh ok

 

[Bray123]

oh ok

"When you pray, don’t be like the Hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them"

"Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Nobody is going after anyone. People are just not as dumb anymore. They learned science.

Really? They “learned science?”

Like this:

 

[DeluxAuto]

You are obviously, willfully blind..... or an outright bullshit liar....

Cry harder.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Really? They “learned science?”

Like this:

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Is Hel a female? I didn't know. If so I'll have to treat her with a little more respect than I would you.

Yeah! Idiots who don't what a woman is are stupid!

 

[Wilson23]

None of this is going to bring people back to the churches. It's a generational decline. In 20 years America will be as post-Christian as Europe is now.