US church membership less than 50% now... and falling (prophecy, bible, faith)
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did the pandemic measures have any impact?
are the religious religious if their membership ceases?
I think that when quality of life goes up and people feel the state owes them, religion numbers drop. But believers in something (as in a pronoun to express no single belief) will always outnumber nothing or deny everything.
Plus, I really think its Christianity dropping the fastest in the states. No way a god sent his son to die for our sins can withstand commonsense.
I stopped going to church temporary for the pandemic, as my job have people at the door of my factory and will put me out for months if I were to catch anything ....... Jesus Spirit still blesses here with His cleansing of Christ as have me booked to go back in the near future when the job is less abusive and the church added all their chairs back ...... More than half of the people of my church are in the same predicament as what I'm going through .................
I stopped going to church temporary for the pandemic, as my job have people at the door of my factory and will put me out for months if I were to catch anything ....... Jesus Spirit still blesses here with His cleansing of Christ as have me booked to go back in the near future when the job is less abusive and the church added all their chairs back ...... More than half of the people of my church are in the same predicament as what I'm going through .................
That's not what this is talking about.
Not going to church temporarily for some reason is not the same thing as dropping your membership in a church.
The poll includes those that used to attend synagogues, mosques and temples. It seems that the reduction in religious adherence is now like a snowball, and gathering speed every year. Many, like me, see this as a good thing. Others will be very concerned.
Are we talking about decrease in membership or decrease in attendance, or both?
Either way, I am surprised to read “mosques” in your comment.
From where I am located, in the last few years, we have established from 2 to 14 mosques in our city and another one is under construction.
Many of these mosques hold two to three prayer sessions on Fridays because the space cannot accommodate all the attendees.
And many mosques don’t have any organized “membership” neither do they care about it. Usually there are a few members (volunteers) to run the operations, and the attendees pay funds to cover the expenses and operational costs.
I am pretty much sure it’s the same scenario in almost all major American cities with a good size Muslim population
Not sure how this article talks about mosques, but anyway, whatever floats your boat.
So the question is -- what has happened in the last 20 years that has caused it to collapse.
I would wonder if it was the increase in the power of the religious right being such a turnoff to millions of people.
I suspect that has a lot to do with it.
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