Crisis in American Faith: Christianity is 43 percent of population as Conservative Christianity becomes own religion [View all]

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"The most popular religion in the United States is Christianity, comprising the majority of the population (73.7% of adults in 2016)..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

Seem to be about 30% of the population, so I think Christianity dropping from 73% to 43% is fair, give or take a little bit.

I mean, let's call it what it is...

* If you white-out Matthew 19:24 but highlight Romans 13

* If you want to call being GLBTQ a sin but ignore the commandment that is, you know, "Thou shalt not steal", something that is held sacred to adherents of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I actually read that commandment, it does not read "Thou shalt not steal unless thou be rich and powerful". If you can call GLBTQ a sin, but you suddenly shut your trap when people are defrauded by the rich and powerful (Which is... anyone, anyone? ... STEALING), then don't call yourself a Christian, you can call yourself a Conservative Christian, but not a Christian. You outright reject a commandment held not just by Christianity but by other Abrahamic faiths as well, I mean come on.

* If, and going on healthcare, you actually say we have the world's greatest healthcare and we have a "Christian nation", but we pay the most for healthcare. Is it because of that, is it because we pay the most? Jesus healed people for free. You wanna rip the Christ out of your supposed Christianity any other ways while you're at it? Goodness.

* If you have a cargo cult of billionaires, prosperity theology, and Donald Trump.

* If you consider the teachings of Jesus to be "woke"

Then stop calling yourself a Christian, you're a Conservative Christian.

I'm not a super-believer in religion, I'm a critic of organized religion as a whole, but I do believe in something... maybe it's God, maybe it's oneness, I don't know. But I try to respect people who do believe and are respectful of others; Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Bahai, Hindu, etc., and those who do not believe as well and are respectful of others.

You can have money-makes-right, power-makes-right, stick it to the woke, it's not the sin of stealing when the rich do it, cargo cult belief system or you can have Christianity. But not both. So, it is because of this respect and belief for mutual respect that, in good conscience, I can no longer associate Christianity with the Conservative Christianity that has taken root in the American political landscape today.