Obligatory reminder that while Christianity is declining, to the point that Nones may surpass them as the majority in 50 years, Fundamentalist Evangelicalism is rising in spite of that overall decline. People are either leaving mainstream forms of Christianity entirely or to join up with these weirdos.
And having escaped one of these cults myself, they are well-suited bedfellows with fascism.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take anything evangelicals say seriously.
They talk about personal integrity and morals and being gentle and letting your speech be gracious. Yet, they support a leader who is and does the exact opposite. And then proceed to mimic him.
Way to trash your own witness.
Even when I was still drinking the Jesus juice a decade ago I could see this in my church. It’s the main reason I left. Sermons would preach one thing, which the congregation would agree with, but then immediately after I would hear people gossiping about how Marsha has a gay son so she’s going to hell, or Tom’s daughter got pregnant out of wedlock so they were shunning them. I grew up with several of these peoples kids and knew for a fact they were nowhere close to saints. Rampant. Hypocrisy. It’s wild that they’re so willfully ignorant. It’s all just projection of their own guilt.
50 years is an embarrassingly long time out
Considering that Christianity has retained a solid majority for probably 150 years, it’s quite fast, and that’s only speaking about majorities. The actual threshold for irrelevance might be sooner.
