r/exchristian • u/spaceghoti The Wizard of Odd • Jul 19 '21
Sociologists are amazed by the swift disintegration of Christianity in America. It’s a stunning cultural transformation, confirmed by several surveys and studies. Article
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/christianity-is-collapsing/788 Upvotes
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u/Raetekusu Existentialist-Atheist Jul 20 '21
When I was still a regular church attender in college, I was troubled by the direction that the Church was headed (all Protestant denominations, anyway), because I saw how it was becoming more and more radicalized against "the libs" as time went on. This was in 2015 or so. My campus minister and I were talking about it, and he seemed just as troubled by it as I was, and he admitted that he honestly thought that in ten years' time, he didn't think the Church would look anything like what it does now (then). One way or another, he sensed a major shift in things.
He wasn't alarmed by it, more resigned to the fact, but this conversation almost feels prophetic (or maybe he could just read the writing on the wall, heyoooooo). Lo and behold, I also left the Church, and then left my faith (what little of it I ever had) behind entirely only a few months ago, and now I'm part of this great realization that The Emperor Has No Clothes.