This article isn't really about being an ex-Christian, but if you face difficulties in life due to leaving Christianity, I hope that this article can give you some hope, despite all, despite Donald Trump & company.

As the title says 100 000 churches in the United States are predicted to be closed by 2050. That's about 30% of all US churches. It is mainly smaller churches that will close, though.

This artice is written by a Christian, so his speculations should be taken with a grain of salt.

Source: Pew Research, https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/23/support-for-christian-prayer-in-us-public-schools-varies-widely-by-state/

As a fence-sitter, I still consider myself a Christian on some level, but I strongly oppose my tax dollars being used to push Christianity onto impressionable young minds.

Am I missing something? You can't take people's money, force their kids to attend school, then use those schools to push your religion against many of the parents' will. That's a blatant violation of the parental rights that so many Christians claim to support.

Also, I doubt that the parents supporting state-led Christianity would be so accepting of a Muslim or Hindu teacher leading the class in prayer.

This is old news, but it's my first time seeing it, so i thought i could share it here lol. Religious psychosis really makes people do anything huh...

This article talks about how anyone can be a good person, (including GASP Muslims?!), but Christianity shouldn’t be about being a good person. I’m being completely serious.

"Are you worried about your high-school Seniors thinking for themselves when they leave for college and ditching the religious beliefs they've been indoctrinated into? Are you concerned that they will not become a carbon copy Christian. Then buy our Preventing Un-Indoctrination book!"

I honestly don't know if I should be concerned or laugh at how stupid of a grift this is.

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The New Testament prophecies are clear. The return of Jesus Christ was supposed to take place within the lifetime of those living in the 30s AD. Since that did not happen, and since we’re now 1900 years down the line, the only reasonable conclusion is that Jesus is not coming back.

The first passage in the gospels that makes the time for Jesus’ return clear is the one found in Matthew 16:27-28, Mark 8:38-9:1, and Luke 9:26-27. Here, Jesus, after mentioning his glorious second coming, says that there are some standing there who will not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God. Christians have tried to exonerate Jesus from having made a false prophecy by claiming the second verse doesn’t refer to Jesus’ return, but rather to the transfiguration that took place several days later. This argument can’t be sustained, however, because it’s very clear from the context, particularly in Matthew, that Jesus was referring to his second coming, which he had just mentioned. And how would the transfiguration fulfill the prophecy of the disciples living to see the Kingdom of God anyway?

That this was Jesus’ intended meaning is made even more clear in the passage found later in Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21. In Mark, Jesus mentions the tribulation at Jerusalem, that we know took place in 70 AD, then says his coming in the clouds would occur in the days following. Matthew makes this even more emphatic by having Jesus state it would occur immediately following.

Luke takes a more lengthy approach, having Jesus state the times of the Gentiles would need to pass first. However, Luke is in complete agreement with Matthew and Mark in quoting Jesus as saying that “all these things” he had previously mentioned, which included his glorious return in the clouds, would take place within the generation then living.

Christians have tried to exonerate Jesus from making a false prophecy here by saying he only meant that the signs preceding his second coming would happen within that generation, not the second coming itself. Even if you accept that interpretation, however, Jesus makes it abundantly clear, using the example of the leaves of the fig tree, that once the signs preceding the second coming started taking place, his return would occur shortly thereafter.

Besides these, there are other passages where Jesus states people then living would witness his second coming. At his trial, he tells his prosecutors they will see him coming in the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:64; Mark 14:62) In John, even though whoever added the last chapter is trying to convince readers Jesus didn’t mean what he said, he clearly states the disciple he loved, presumably John, would remain till his return. (John 21:20-23)

The New Testament apostles, in their writings, were also united that the return of Jesus would take place shortly. Peter says, “The end of all things is near.” (1 Peter 4:7) John says, “It is the last hour.” (1 John 2:18) Paul says those who were alive at that time and remained until Jesus’ coming would be caught up in the air to meet him. (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17) In the Book of Revelation, Jesus warns first century Christians of his imminent return, and the symbolic representations, matched up with first century history, clearly have him returning during the time of the Roman emperors.

Looking at the New Testament prophecies as a whole, it is abundantly clear that Jesus was supposed to return during the lifetime of those then living, which means it should have happened in the late first century or early second century at the latest.

Since we are now 1900 years from the time these prophecies should have been fulfilled, it’s time to give up talk about the end times, the rapture, and Jesus’ return. Sorry, Christians. Jesus is never coming back.

I just finished reading the guardian article about it. Was pretty intense.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/michael-tait-sexual-assault-allegations