The dying right: Why Christian fundamentalists are in panic mode

[LiberalElite]

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/the_dying_right_why_christian_fundamentalists_are_in_panic_mode_partner/

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Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, the Christian Right, knowing it represents the views of an ever shrinking number of Americans, is engaged in an existential fight to the death. Veto or no veto, Arizona’s anti-gay bill is just another of its many efforts to transform America’s secular democracy into a tyrannical theocracy.

The Christian Right’s dirty little secret is they are acutely aware that changing demographics are running against them. While they may believe the earth is a mere few thousand years old, they’re not complete idiots. They can read polls, and the data tells them this: millennials are abandoning religious belief. According to a recent Pew survey, one in four Americans born after 1981 hold no religious belief, which is nearly double the national rate of atheism. Other studies confirm this trend, including a recent study by the Public Religion Research Institute showing more than half of non-religious Millennials have abandoned their childhood faith.
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[randys1]

1. While these haters lose power watch for them to strike out with greater hate everyday

[C_U_L8R]

2. Religion is doing a pretty good job

of chasing everyone away in repulsion.

[RKP5637]

3. I'm not religious, I used to be neutral about religion, but now I deplore it. n/t

[Warpy]

4. It's wortking that way on the young

Oh, they'll be back when their kids are in school, but for now, even the believers refuse to identify as Christians because the Republicans stole the name, along with the cross, the flag, and false definitions of freedom. All they did with them is rob the poor to fatten the rich.

However, I've seen people of all ages starting to turn away, especially if they were sucked in by prosperity theology. It took some Gen X second cousins all of six months to notice the only one prospering was the preacher, fat on tithes from the "flock" he was fleecing. Other people want to believe, so it's taken them a bit longer. Some have turned back to mainstream churches while others, like my cousins, have simply turned away and turned off.

I'm glad the Clown Congress is reaching such a crescendo of self defeating idiocy. Every excess, every failure will drive more people away from the fundegelicals in general and the Republicans in particular.

I love the smell of gotterdammerung in the morning.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. ^ n/t

[LiberalElite]

7. I once worked with a woman who

was an atheist and so was her husband. They were former Catholics. She told me they were raising their son as a Catholic "so he'd have something to rebel against." I'm a former Catholic myself (not atheist but I don't care if anyone is). I thought that was a big chance they were taking. I told her "With your luck he'll become a priest."

[rock]

6. If there was only one Christian believer

How long do you suppose he would hold to his deeply held beliefs? It's the counter point of Randy Newman's "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)".

[blkmusclmachine]

8. The God Botherers operate the President's Prayer Breakfast, and own Frathouse For Jesus (which

houses Senators both D & R).

[jomin41]

9. happy me

My grown son went from rw religion-nut to "independent" (whatever that means) because of the Iraq war scam.