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Article from Christian Science Monitor a few days ago. The author, Michael Spencer, is an evangelical Xian himself. I think the part about "a new vitality and integrity" is just wishful thinking, but I'm a grumpy atheist.

The coming evangelical collapse

An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise.

By Michael Spencer / March 10, 2009

We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.

Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century...

Why is this going to happen?

1. Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society...

7. The money will dry up.



Yeah, #7 will do it every time...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html