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Originally Posted by Thor
Is this a pushback to Bush and the Evangelicals?? Is this a awakening of the atheist movement finally showing results?
Whatever is going on, its clear, the evangelical movement is facing a pushback to their dogma.
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I dunno, I haven't gone through all of your links yet, but in the main story it actually said that while Christianity is on the decline, Evangelical and 'born again' type beliefs are actually on the rise.
'The survey also found that "born-again" or "evangelical" Christianity is on the rise, while the percentage who belong to "mainline" congregations such as the Episcopal or Lutheran churches has fallen.'
At least according to THIS survey and story, Christianity is on the decline, but the more radical subsections are growing over the more mainstream beliefs.
Not really a great trade off IMO. it's not Christians or religious people that are the problem, it's the most radical of the religious people (in any religion) that are.
The ones that want to teach Creationism and change laws and protest gay funerals etc. As like with Muslim beliefs, it's not the majority that are the problem. It's the minority that want to bomb buildings and decapitate cartoonists that are.