A Gallup poll found, for the first time in the poll’s 80-year history, church membership among American adults has fallen below 50%. #TwoAmericas www.kgun9.com/...
I'm christian but no longer go church pray at home because my Jesus with me protect my family I'm sick going to church get abused made me feeling guilty about tax collection that was thousands years ago ? Only stupid can do that. Come on
I left all that religion behind and haven't missed it at. Much of what's being taught in those places are not true and so much confusion and division. It's so sad that many ppl are so caught up in it and I to was there once but now I'm Free.
@@davidralphs4Cringe neckbeard atheism. It’s entirely possible to believe in Abrahamic religion and accept scientific ideas substantiated through observation. My church never had any major opposition to Darwin’s theory or evolution, and in fact one of its priests was the first scientist to put forth the Big Bang theory.
The young generation becomes more neutral believers but for a christian church is just a place, it is not mandatory to worship Jesus Christ in Church, anyone can worship at any place, any time, any direction, any language, that is the speciality in Christianity, so church is not a main matter, not to be focussed on physical presence, where Christ lives in every souls
@@adamwalker2377 It sure is. All of the demographic data emphatically shows that now is the best time to be a human being, and that societal metrics are worse the more religious a society is. Teen pregnancy, abortions, crime, illiteracy, life expectancy, unemployment, poverty, etc, are all worse the more religious a society is today, whether it's the most religious countries in the world, or the most religious states in the US. The only benefits a religion still gives are social connection and belonging, which can be achieved by many other means. I know that people try to assure you that the opposite is true, and that the news focuses on negative stories because we pay more attention to those, but see if such people give you actual data and facts, rather than anecdotes or vague personal feelings. There's a reason why they won't.
The level of ignorance here is astounding. Do you have any idea WHO feeds most of the homeless and hungry in your community? Think just a minute. Oh... It's the churches.
Millions of people have to work on Sundays or late Saturday nights. Min. wage jobs have both parents working full time and often working a second job. Also multiple millions of people today support rather than condemn their LGBT family members and friends. Also you are asking min. wage earners to give at least 20 dollars a week to the collection plate, that's over 1000 bucks a year. People working two jobs and barely making ends meat can't give a 1000 bucks away to a church.
The young generation becomes more neutral believers but for a christian church is just a place, it is not mandatory to worship Jesus Christ in Church, anyone can worship at any place, any time, any direction, any language, that is the speciality in Christianity, so church is not a main matter, not to be focussed on physical presence, where Christ lives in every souls
God and Jesus can be worshiped anywhere anytime day or night in your home in your car wherever you're at but it's nice to be with other believers and worshiping but Jesus said go preach the gospel and make disciples baptizing them in the name of the Father the son and the Holy Ghost commanding them to do all that Jesus said
GOOD. I’m sick of their bullshit….anyone and everyone can pick up a bible and read at home. You go to church for the camaraderie, the charity, the kindness, the love and the church lately HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY DEVOID OF ANY OF THAT. Every single church has some political agenda…you know why I’m fed up with the church my parents used to take me to? Every sermon was about forcing women to give birth to babies they couldn’t afford to keep…they help these women keep the children…but then where are these women with their children afterwards????? NOTHING. NOTHING is said about them. But we’re onto the next woman to force into keeping a baby. Second…I was too young at the time to understand but I do now…there was a woman experiencing physical abuse from her husband and she was used as an example…Oh, what was SHE doing to get HIM to hit HER???? EXCUSE ME???? Nothing about getting this woman help. Nothing about holding the man accountable. Her problem is she wasn’t praying hard enough!!!! And let’s not forget the Westborough Church and the hate they spread. Or other racist or hateful churches…it’s not about preaching the word of God…it’s about being exclusive to only your clientele. So you can play all the sad piano music that you want over the death of the church but the only people responsible for the death of the church is the church itself. God is no longer in the house of worship. He’s in you and you need to cultivate your own relationship with God. And stop listening to these false prophets.. I would, hands down, go back to a church where you felt loved and welcomed. I think EVERYONE wants that. When we are all adults and we have no mother or father or family to go back to…you know what’s nice…? Pulling up to the church and it’s a hubcap of activity…especially on the holidays! You don’t have to be home alone with yourself…you can go to church and see all smiling faces and there’s food and kids running around and you feel a sense of belonging. I been to church lately. It’s a judgmental hell hole where no one genuinely cares about anyone else, there is no community, there is no heart and no sense of belonging. You want to be tortured for an hour. Then attend.
I know what I wrote was long but I realize that I could speak for HOURS on how let down I feel by the church. Especially as a woman. I was taught to be an object…not a person. I was taught to be submissive and accept disrespect and less than any human being deserves because I was a girl. I have hurt in my heart that for a good portion of my life I was taught to be someone’s wife and not my own person. And I’m angry…that religion has been weaponized the way it has…to be used as a tool of oppression and division. Organized religion always starts off with the best of intentions…but it always gets co-opted by those who crave power. You are sheep to the slaughter…especially in Christianity.
Really good post. Thanks for sharing and I’m sorry that happened to you. I was reading that 75% of the people who leave evangelical Christianity are women. I don’t blame them one bit.
Paying tax collector every year no way the gift and blessed for free rather pray my Jesus at home read Bible simple is that don't let them made you feel guilty of you not contribute will make you guilty waste time. Churches is more than business profit wake up pick up your Bible pray to Jesus Christ.
@@MayTheOddsBeInYourFavoryou are so right. Religion has been weaponized for hundreds of years. Many slaves were lynched in the name of Christianity for the cleansing of the people and other lies. Many Native Americans and Native children in Canada were mistreated, murdered, raped, in the name of religion. Now religion is being politicized against women. We are going backwards people…This weaponization starts in the church because the wolves have the sheep under control. History will repeat itself. The new name is Christian Nationalism, AKA white evangelicals, AKA non white evangelicals, AKA white supremacists. This is not speaking extreme. This is truth. Read History. Texas wants to replace school counselors with Chaplains. Do we trust them? Can we trust them? What is the History of these religious folks in our schools? No good track records. The Pope is still apologizing for the past and present behavior of some of these “religious” pretend folks. Sometimes I wonder if the devil is not making us believe what the politicians are telling us. That the Queers are bad for our kids. What if they are the good guys and the ones who say a Bible verse are the true vagrants?!? We have been fooled before… Peace and Blessings.
The woman being interviewed isn’t telling the truth, religion is dying, around the world, even while most still believe in God, they don’t believe in listening to bizarre and disturbing stories from the ancient past and sermons that denigrate and divide people, as most evangelical churches do today.
Christian gatherings will be more decentralized, like they were in the early church. Hopefully all Christians will use the gifts God gave them for mutual edification. Church gatherings as we know it has stunted the growth of too many Christians.
Just because people stop going to church, doesn't mean they stop being religious. We all saw how zealously all those covid rituals were followed, even more so by those who claim to dislike religion the most. The irony.
@@Safe-and-effective you mean Muslim population? This is a misleading as Islamic belief is also beginning to decline, understandably not as obvious and fast as Christian decline, but it's happening. Natural result of Secularism and the Information age we live in.
@matteojaco8642 No. Check the stats. Every year, for the last 30 years or so, an extra 1% of the American population no longer identifies as Christian. And this rate of decline of Christianity is only accelerating.
@@Gfish17 what do you mean by spirituality? No-one seems able to agree on what spirituality actually means, in the same way that those who believe in gods, fairies, devils and ghosts can't agree on specific characteristics. E.g. do you think spirituality involves belief in a 'soul' that lives on after bodily death, if so in what form, and how do you know?
Where do you think your conscience comes from? who designed the wonder of cellular, DNA function in the human body?ua-cam.com/video/7Hk9jct2ozY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=WEHImovies But of course the atheist says absolutely there is no God, because he wants no metaphysical accountability for his sins.
Are you saying that this earth and everything that fills it was an accident? That somehow no intelligent creator was needed? Saying that a creator does not exist is like wandering through the desert and stumbling upon a nice temperature control cottage in the middle of nowhere, stocked with food and everything needed for you to be comfortable. I am confident I could not convince you that the cottage required no builder and that by chance it came into existence. You would think perhaps I thought you are a fool to believe such nonsense. The evidence of a designer and builder is too overwhelming to believe such. Is not the earth and everything in it much more complicated and complex than a cottage? Don’t allow yourself to be a fool by being convince there is not a god. Open your eyes, the evidence of an intelligent creator is all around you. He is a reader of hearts so if you sincerely want to know him call out to him in prayer. The Bible in Psalms 83:18 says his name is Jehovah.
The young generation becomes more neutral believers but for a christian church is just a place, it is not mandatory to worship Jesus Christ in Church, anyone can worship at any place, any time, any direction, any language, that is the speciality in Christianity, so church is not a main matter, not to be focussed on physical presence, where Christ lives in every souls
I don't mean to offend anyone by this, but if all we want, as Christians, is to go back to "normal" I, personally, want NO part of it! I was getting sick and tired of church as "normal". The American church knows how to "do" church while excluding or limiting the Holy Spirit. After all, Godly disorder, aka "holy messiness" scares people because they no longer have control. So we cling tightly to our rituals, traditions and timetables: 1 fast song while calling late-comers from the coffee-shop to the sanctuary, then the greeting. 1 or 2 more fast songs (to get people hyped up and "in the mood") then maybe 2 slow songs to get the emotional atmospheric tone juuuuust right. Of course, this can vary depending on what "big game" will be on later. Then the offering, release the kids, then a motivational speech where the listeners are encouraged to think positive this week. Then a short benediction, release and more social interaction. Then home to enjoy that meal we've been thinking about the whole service. PUKE! No wonder many churches closed down and many people willingly stayed home! I don't blame them! Just another social club instead of Holy Ghost fire coming down, causing hungry people to come from all parts of the world because they've finally smelled "fresh bread" instead of the stale stuff our churches have been doling out! I want a church where the Holy Spirit is given ALL power and permission, the services last for hours with absolutely NO agenda or schedule on our parts, and lives are transformed! Where people crawl out of there because they've experienced the powerful, weighty, life-changing presence of the almighty God and can't WAIT to come back! I want to see a holy starvation come to the "cotton-candy" themed modern-day American church that will turn them inside out and give glory and honor to Jesus alone!
Americans have not stopped believing in God. Vast majority Americans still believe in God. We just are no longer going for the bait & switch that churches & religious organization have been pulling for ages. Some are so bad they require a copy of your W2, to ensure 10% tithing.🤣. I get my spiritual fulfillment in the privacy of my own home these days. For free!
Several years ago, a new pastor was nominated for St. Brendan's Church of the Bronx, N.Y. named Fr. Raul. There was a 24 hour lower church that he closed. Now the upper church is not open as much as it used to be. He closed the bathrooms using covid as a justification. Even though there is a funeral home nearby, he stopped the church calendar. He stopped the film series, using the pandemic as an excuse. He stopped the Tenebrae masses. He avoid showing up o confession and uses another priest often. He is available by appointment only even for the deacon. This pastor got renominated. People who have been there a long time test him too. The pastor avoids saying sermons for his daily masses. He has avoided answering theological questions.
Well try teaching your kids the truth about the world instead of trying to make them look stupid to the rest of the world and maybe they wont laugh you into irrelevance.
This is 😢 sad. The gospel is for humanity. That's the problem in America segregation and isolation. Jesus laid his life down for the sins of mankind I believe in a death burial Resurrection. You have to go back to Orthodox Christianity that started in Europe Sola scripura. Greek or Ethiopian Orthodox or just before the Reformation the break away from Catholicism. The authentic Gospel that existed way before the Puritans left the church of England to the USA America.
"They still seek meaning." Well,apparently, not anymore. "They seek to create meaning." You can't create that kind of meaning, you find it. And most of us aren't seeking anymore.
They gather to themselves teachers that will tell them what they want to hear and walk away with nothing. They are searching for meaning within themselves. The evidence tells us how it's working. More people are in therapy than ever before. Suicides are up over 50% and even higher among teenage girls. More young people are on antidepressants than ever before. Yet, we have more resources for adults and kids than ever before in history, more education, more enlightened teachers and professors and more government money being spent. 60 Minutes last night revealed the stark reality. We the people are not finding meaning to the extent that the battle is being lost. It was a grim report. Maybe we need God. When we did need him things were so much better.
@@2wheelz3504 We do need God. It won't mean life will be perfect, as the Bible doesn't promise that (unless a prosperity preacher wants money sent to them), but at least we will have hope.
@max marrero We can't cure the common cold, arguing about whether men can get pregnant, and just put a guy like Biden into the Whitehouse. We're *not* it. We *need* something beyond us.
@@livewireOrourke No, we don’t need god. People who deconvert usually talk about how happy and safe and free they finally feel. Granted, if children are taught from a young age that they are vile and worthless without a god, they may internalize that false poison and then rely on the imaginary cure that is Christianity. So yeah, it helps to partially mitigate the abuse it perpetuates, but…what if we just didn’t abuse and lie to kids in the first place???
I consider myself a Deist, I believe in God. But I cannot follow all the nonsense in the Bible.Noah's Ark is a ridiculous story, yet many in the church take it as fact.
Relationship with jesus christ saves our souls religion doesnt thats what many people need to know. The holy spirit heals anyone you will never be the same again when you have an encounter with the true God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob yeshua jesus christ
Having studied Islam for decades, I an honestly tell you, it’s the most violent, hate-filled religion on the planet and the direct cause of millions of abused and killed people around the world. Better to simply be agnostic and treat others with love and respect.
@@MrArtist7777 your bible is said to have 1871 violent verses scattered in it. vs. 71 in quran. according to Dartmouth religious studies dept 2018 .....you do know how to count don't you ? for me I left church of the pedos because yahweh/jesus murdered innocent infants in cribs of Egypt. not a loving god. this plague not in quran. could not come from a loving god
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (1 Timothy 4:1)
Who is god? Jesus Is Jesus the son of Mary? Yes Who created Mary? God. Who is God? Jesus Jesus was a born child. Yes Who is his father? God. Who is God? Jesus. Jesus is a servant of God? Yes Who is God? Jesus. Jesus died on the cross? Yes Who raised it? God. Who is God? Jesus Jesus is the messenger? Yes Who sent it? God. Who is God? Jesus. Did Jesus worship while on earth? Yes Who does he worship? God. Who is God? Jesus. Does God have a beginning? No .... Then who was born on 25 DEC? Jesus. Who is God? Jesus. Where is God? In heaven How much is there in heaven? There is only one God. Where is Jesus? He sat to his father's right. Who is God? Jesus. So how many of them are in heaven? There is only one God Then how many seats? One Where is Jesus? Sit next to God. Then how do they sit? In one chair This is only understood by those who have a holy spirit. Who is God? Jesus. Think and act ..
Congratulations, you can recite your beliefs. The issue is, you can’t show that any of it is more than imaginary ideas. You can’t show how you reached those conclusions using reliable tools for discerning truth about reality.
Perhaps if that minister took that stupid mask off, people can understand his speech. Why are so many churches dying? The lyric from an old rock song said "too many churches, too little truth."
While my heart hurts for their faith which I myself left if you ask many of these ministers their policies on the queer community, women’s rights and the morality of others not of the faith. You will see why attendance will continue to plummet.
Older adults stayed religious BUT young no longer religious the old will die you're left with NO RELIGION. I'm atheist don't like church abuse on me
I'm christian but no longer go church pray at home because my Jesus with me protect my family I'm sick going to church get abused made me feeling guilty about tax collection that was thousands years ago ? Only stupid can do that. Come on
Don't let any church come between you and God.🙏🏼
Yup, so many churches are going to close as the boomers die off
The young man didn't want to go no more ...
I left all that religion behind and haven't missed it at. Much of what's being taught in those places are not true and so much confusion and division. It's so sad that many ppl are so caught up in it and I to was there once but now I'm Free.
Can I get a DAR-WIN brother. You chose intellectual integrity over Jesus Christ.
@Betrue58 sounds like you may have been reading about the dead sea scrolls, and or " the 21 Gospels the church caused to go missing "
@@davidralphs4Cringe neckbeard atheism. It’s entirely possible to believe in Abrahamic religion and accept scientific ideas substantiated through observation. My church never had any major opposition to Darwin’s theory or evolution, and in fact one of its priests was the first scientist to put forth the Big Bang theory.
we all hate man made religion
Yes, that is the message of atheism, you are free.
Nobody's goin for the lies anymore
True brother APTTMH 🙌🏾
Especially not in these regressive Church of Christ non -instrument having churches
Ditto! I haven't gone to church in I don't remember how many years.
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@@luckied7542that makes me sad
This is the best thing to ever happen to America. About time.
The young generation becomes more neutral believers but for a christian church is just a place, it is not mandatory to worship Jesus Christ in Church, anyone can worship at any place, any time, any direction, any language, that is the speciality in Christianity, so church is not a main matter, not to be focussed on physical presence, where Christ lives in every souls
Second best thing.. the first is more younger people are also opening to Socialism.
Socialism + Secularism >>>> Capitalism + Theocracy.
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@@AdmiralBison Across the West everything is getting super better. What's the most popular birth name in London?
@@Safe-and-effective what are you trying to say?
Fantastic. Less superstition, bigotry, gaslighting, and modeling of bad reasoning. Humanity will thrive going forward.
Because that's definitely what history shows.
@@adamwalker2377 It sure is. All of the demographic data emphatically shows that now is the best time to be a human being, and that societal metrics are worse the more religious a society is. Teen pregnancy, abortions, crime, illiteracy, life expectancy, unemployment, poverty, etc, are all worse the more religious a society is today, whether it's the most religious countries in the world, or the most religious states in the US. The only benefits a religion still gives are social connection and belonging, which can be achieved by many other means.
I know that people try to assure you that the opposite is true, and that the news focuses on negative stories because we pay more attention to those, but see if such people give you actual data and facts, rather than anecdotes or vague personal feelings. There's a reason why they won't.
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I’m so glad churches are closing. They need to be closed.
AMEN
we all hate man made religion
The level of ignorance here is astounding. Do you have any idea WHO feeds most of the homeless and hungry in your community? Think just a minute. Oh... It's the churches.
Never went to any church anywhere where I wasn't bored to death and always felt like an outsider .
Jesus never said "go to church"
Millions of people have to work on Sundays or late Saturday nights. Min. wage jobs have both parents working full time and often working a second job. Also multiple millions of people today support rather than condemn their LGBT family members and friends. Also you are asking min. wage earners to give at least 20 dollars a week to the collection plate, that's over 1000 bucks a year. People working two jobs and barely making ends meat can't give a 1000 bucks away to a church.
You also forgot a lot of church want you to tithe 10% of your gross income.
@@northwest-e3q True and for minimum wage employees 20 bucks a week sadely is a 10% tithe.
The young generation becomes more neutral believers but for a christian church is just a place, it is not mandatory to worship Jesus Christ in Church, anyone can worship at any place, any time, any direction, any language, that is the speciality in Christianity, so church is not a main matter, not to be focussed on physical presence, where Christ lives in every souls
we all hate man made religion
That's how they make Africans willingly labor for their masters and their Lord. Totally abusive and sick.
God and Jesus can be worshiped anywhere anytime day or night in your home in your car wherever you're at but it's nice to be with other believers and worshiping but Jesus said go preach the gospel and make disciples baptizing them in the name of the Father the son and the Holy Ghost commanding them to do all that Jesus said
people are no longer falling for religion and religiosity, but they’re becoming spiritual in other more effective ways
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GOOD. I’m sick of their bullshit….anyone and everyone can pick up a bible and read at home. You go to church for the camaraderie, the charity, the kindness, the love and the church lately HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY DEVOID OF ANY OF THAT. Every single church has some political agenda…you know why I’m fed up with the church my parents used to take me to? Every sermon was about forcing women to give birth to babies they couldn’t afford to keep…they help these women keep the children…but then where are these women with their children afterwards????? NOTHING. NOTHING is said about them. But we’re onto the next woman to force into keeping a baby.
Second…I was too young at the time to understand but I do now…there was a woman experiencing physical abuse from her husband and she was used as an example…Oh, what was SHE doing to get HIM to hit HER???? EXCUSE ME???? Nothing about getting this woman help. Nothing about holding the man accountable. Her problem is she wasn’t praying hard enough!!!!
And let’s not forget the Westborough Church and the hate they spread. Or other racist or hateful churches…it’s not about preaching the word of God…it’s about being exclusive to only your clientele.
So you can play all the sad piano music that you want over the death of the church but the only people responsible for the death of the church is the church itself. God is no longer in the house of worship. He’s in you and you need to cultivate your own relationship with God. And stop listening to these false prophets..
I would, hands down, go back to a church where you felt loved and welcomed. I think EVERYONE wants that. When we are all adults and we have no mother or father or family to go back to…you know what’s nice…? Pulling up to the church and it’s a hubcap of activity…especially on the holidays! You don’t have to be home alone with yourself…you can go to church and see all smiling faces and there’s food and kids running around and you feel a sense of belonging. I been to church lately. It’s a judgmental hell hole where no one genuinely cares about anyone else, there is no community, there is no heart and no sense of belonging. You want to be tortured for an hour. Then attend.
I know what I wrote was long but I realize that I could speak for HOURS on how let down I feel by the church. Especially as a woman. I was taught to be an object…not a person. I was taught to be submissive and accept disrespect and less than any human being deserves because I was a girl. I have hurt in my heart that for a good portion of my life I was taught to be someone’s wife and not my own person. And I’m angry…that religion has been weaponized the way it has…to be used as a tool of oppression and division. Organized religion always starts off with the best of intentions…but it always gets co-opted by those who crave power. You are sheep to the slaughter…especially in Christianity.
Really good post. Thanks for sharing and I’m sorry that happened to you. I was reading that 75% of the people who leave evangelical Christianity are women. I don’t blame them one bit.
@@weirdwilliam8500 I’m not surprised. Religion offers women nothing but a life of unappreciated servitude. Thanks for making me feel heard 🙏🏾
Paying tax collector every year no way the gift and blessed for free rather pray my Jesus at home read Bible simple is that don't let them made you feel guilty of you not contribute will make you guilty waste time. Churches is more than business profit wake up pick up your Bible pray to Jesus Christ.
@@MayTheOddsBeInYourFavoryou are so right. Religion has been weaponized for hundreds of years. Many slaves were lynched in the name of Christianity for the cleansing of the people and other lies. Many Native Americans and Native children in Canada were mistreated, murdered, raped, in the name of religion. Now religion is being politicized against women. We are going backwards people…This weaponization starts in the church because the wolves have the sheep under control. History will repeat itself. The new name is Christian Nationalism, AKA white evangelicals, AKA non white evangelicals, AKA white supremacists. This is not speaking extreme. This is truth. Read History.
Texas wants to replace school counselors with Chaplains. Do we trust them? Can we trust them? What is the History of these religious folks in our schools? No good track records. The Pope is still apologizing for the past and present behavior of some of these “religious” pretend folks.
Sometimes I wonder if the devil is not making us believe what the politicians are telling us. That the Queers are bad for our kids. What if they are the good guys and the ones who say a Bible verse are the true vagrants?!? We have been fooled before…
Peace and Blessings.
2:30 "It doesn't necessarily mean Religion is dying..."
*It is*
Religion likes being in denial of reality...even its own death.
religion is man made evil
The woman being interviewed isn’t telling the truth, religion is dying, around the world, even while most still believe in God, they don’t believe in listening to bizarre and disturbing stories from the ancient past and sermons that denigrate and divide people, as most evangelical churches do today.
religion is not dying everywhere. it is declining much in the decadant West (North America and Europe) There are also many Martyrs today.
Christian gatherings will be more decentralized, like they were in the early church. Hopefully all Christians will use the gifts God gave them for mutual edification. Church gatherings as we know it has stunted the growth of too many Christians.
What will happen to the Easter bunny?
Any "pastor" who will wear a mask, for covid, in an interview, is WICKED!!.
You are the type of person keeping kids out of church.
OMG lol!!😂😂😂😂
Jefferson, you're a special kind of stupid.
Just because people stop going to church, doesn't mean they stop being religious. We all saw how zealously all those covid rituals were followed, even more so by those who claim to dislike religion the most. The irony.
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Socialism + Secularism >>>> Capitalism + Theocracy.
The islamic population is growing so you can at the very least say goodbye to two of those.
@@Safe-and-effective you mean Muslim population?
This is a misleading as Islamic belief is also beginning to decline, understandably not as obvious and fast as Christian decline, but it's happening.
Natural result of Secularism and the Information age we live in.
Love it
It’s sad to see. Religion isn’t dying though. Just changing. The state and the culture is the religion for most now
What's Sad now?
@matteojaco8642
No. Check the stats. Every year, for the last 30 years or so, an extra 1% of the American population no longer identifies as Christian. And this rate of decline of Christianity is only accelerating.
@@canwelook They may not be Christian anymore but I'm sure they haven't let go of spiritually completely.
@@Gfish17 what do you mean by spirituality?
No-one seems able to agree on what spirituality actually means, in the same way that those who believe in gods, fairies, devils and ghosts can't agree on specific characteristics.
E.g. do you think spirituality involves belief in a 'soul' that lives on after bodily death, if so in what form, and how do you know?
Hallelujah
Love the vibe of this video, the music and photography are amazing:)
If there was any evidence of a God then even atheists like me would start going to church.
Where do you think your conscience comes from? who designed the wonder of cellular, DNA function in the human body?ua-cam.com/video/7Hk9jct2ozY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=WEHImovies But of course the atheist says absolutely there is no God, because he wants no metaphysical accountability for his sins.
Are you saying that this earth and everything that fills it was an accident? That somehow no intelligent creator was needed? Saying that a creator does not exist is like wandering through the desert and stumbling upon a nice temperature control cottage in the middle of nowhere, stocked with food and everything needed for you to be comfortable. I am confident I could not convince you that the cottage required no builder and that by chance it came into existence. You would think perhaps I thought you are a fool to believe such nonsense. The evidence of a designer and builder is too overwhelming to believe such. Is not the earth and everything in it much more complicated and complex than a cottage? Don’t allow yourself to be a fool by being convince there is not a god. Open your eyes, the evidence of an intelligent creator is all around you. He is a reader of hearts so if you sincerely want to know him call out to him in prayer. The Bible in Psalms 83:18 says his name is Jehovah.
The fact that you exist is an evidence of God. Deep down, you know he is there. you have knowledge therefore you are without excuse.
You do not have to go to church to believe in God. We exist because He made us.
@@samanthatruong8390 no, he exist because parents had sex, that is a natural cause not any god, knowledge is something you aquire reading not god
There are many layers for this. Church and religion isn't same. When people do not find a religious institution on their side they will move sway.
we all hate man made religion
The young generation becomes more neutral believers but for a christian church is just a place, it is not mandatory to worship Jesus Christ in Church, anyone can worship at any place, any time, any direction, any language, that is the speciality in Christianity, so church is not a main matter, not to be focussed on physical presence, where Christ lives in every souls
we all hate man made religion
I don't mean to offend anyone by this, but if all we want, as Christians, is to go back to "normal" I, personally, want NO part of it! I was getting sick and tired of church as "normal".
The American church knows how to "do" church while excluding or limiting the Holy Spirit. After all, Godly disorder, aka "holy messiness" scares people because they no longer have control.
So we cling tightly to our rituals, traditions and timetables: 1 fast song while calling late-comers from the coffee-shop to the sanctuary, then the greeting. 1 or 2 more fast songs (to get people hyped up and "in the mood") then maybe 2 slow songs to get the emotional atmospheric tone juuuuust right. Of course, this can vary depending on what "big game" will be on later. Then the offering, release the kids, then a motivational speech where the listeners are encouraged to think positive this week. Then a short benediction, release and more social interaction. Then home to enjoy that meal we've been thinking about the whole service.
PUKE! No wonder many churches closed down and many people willingly stayed home! I don't blame them! Just another social club instead of Holy Ghost fire coming down, causing hungry people to come from all parts of the world because they've finally smelled "fresh bread" instead of the stale stuff our churches have been doling out!
I want a church where the Holy Spirit is given ALL power and permission, the services last for hours with absolutely NO agenda or schedule on our parts, and lives are transformed! Where people crawl out of there because they've experienced the powerful, weighty, life-changing presence of the almighty God and can't WAIT to come back! I want to see a holy starvation come to the "cotton-candy" themed modern-day American church that will turn them inside out and give glory and honor to Jesus alone!
Good riddance
Americans have not stopped believing in God. Vast majority Americans still believe in God. We just are no longer going for the bait & switch that churches & religious organization have been pulling for ages. Some are so bad they require a copy of your W2, to ensure 10% tithing.🤣. I get my spiritual fulfillment in the privacy of my own home these days. For free!
Several years ago, a new pastor was nominated for St. Brendan's Church of the Bronx, N.Y. named Fr. Raul. There was a 24 hour lower church that he closed. Now the upper church is not open as much as it used to be. He closed the bathrooms using covid as a justification. Even though there is a funeral home nearby, he stopped the church calendar. He stopped the film series, using the pandemic as an excuse. He stopped the Tenebrae masses. He avoid showing up o confession and uses another priest often. He is available by appointment only even for the deacon. This pastor got renominated. People who have been there a long time test him too. The pastor avoids saying sermons for his daily masses. He has avoided answering theological questions.
Keep god and spirituality out of your man made religion
This is good news!
we all hate man made religion
Well try teaching your kids the truth about the world instead of trying to make them look stupid to the rest of the world and maybe they wont laugh you into irrelevance.
This is 😢 sad. The gospel is for humanity. That's the problem in America segregation and isolation. Jesus laid his life down for the sins of mankind I believe in a death burial Resurrection. You have to go back to Orthodox Christianity that started in Europe Sola scripura. Greek or Ethiopian Orthodox or just before the Reformation the break away from Catholicism. The authentic Gospel that existed way before the Puritans left the church of England to the USA America.
"They still seek meaning."
Well,apparently, not anymore.
"They seek to create meaning."
You can't create that kind of meaning, you find it. And most of us aren't seeking anymore.
They gather to themselves teachers that will tell them what they want to hear and walk away with nothing. They are searching for meaning within themselves. The evidence tells us how it's working. More people are in therapy than ever before. Suicides are up over 50% and even higher among teenage girls. More young people are on antidepressants than ever before. Yet, we have more resources for adults and kids than ever before in history, more education, more enlightened teachers and professors and more government money being spent. 60 Minutes last night revealed the stark reality. We the people are not finding meaning to the extent that the battle is being lost. It was a grim report. Maybe we need God. When we did need him things were so much better.
@@2wheelz3504 We do need God. It won't mean life will be perfect, as the Bible doesn't promise that (unless a prosperity preacher wants money sent to them), but at least we will have hope.
@max marrero We can't cure the common cold, arguing about whether men can get pregnant, and just put a guy like Biden into the Whitehouse.
We're *not* it. We *need* something beyond us.
@@livewireOrourke Your hope is false one. No evidence whatsoever of a God
@@livewireOrourke No, we don’t need god. People who deconvert usually talk about how happy and safe and free they finally feel.
Granted, if children are taught from a young age that they are vile and worthless without a god, they may internalize that false poison and then rely on the imaginary cure that is Christianity.
So yeah, it helps to partially mitigate the abuse it perpetuates, but…what if we just didn’t abuse and lie to kids in the first place???
He is Allah-there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him: Knower of the seen and unseen. He is the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
This account it isnot mine My real name is Arianit. AVE SATANAS this is my the most SWEET DREAM xtaianty DIYING.
I consider myself a Deist, I believe in God. But I cannot follow all the nonsense in the Bible.Noah's Ark is a ridiculous story, yet many in the church take it as fact.
90% may say they believe but l just think a lot of them can't admit that they don't believe. It's a tough thing to say and many just won't say it.
Relationship with jesus christ saves our souls religion doesnt thats what many people need to know. The holy spirit heals anyone you will never be the same again when you have an encounter with the true God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob yeshua jesus christ
I left church for islam/monotheism in 2002. although my dad was a pastor in Dallas
Better check up on him. Lots of those pastors took advantage of people at their worst. My uncle was a pastor who molested old women before they died
Having studied Islam for decades, I an honestly tell you, it’s the most violent, hate-filled religion on the planet and the direct cause of millions of abused and killed people around the world. Better to simply be agnostic and treat others with love and respect.
@@MrArtist7777 your bible is said to have 1871 violent verses scattered in it. vs. 71 in quran. according to Dartmouth religious studies dept 2018 .....you do know how to count don't you ? for me I left church of the pedos because yahweh/jesus murdered innocent infants in cribs of Egypt. not a loving god. this plague not in quran. could not come from a loving god
As the COLONizers die off so do their religions. Wrong name, wrong image, wrong people.
Book of Obadiah
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
(1 Timothy 4:1)
In the 1950s USA was super racist 😂
And now it is super super racist
Orthodox Christianity is the only Christianity.
what about catholics, bouddhism and islam, are you ready to enter in war against 80% of humanity ?
The only true religion is the one your savior didn't believe in or practice?
@@jimbob3030 Yes, Taoism.
@@shane1948 Ok, I didn't see that coming from a person who says the only christianity is orthodox christianity.
@@jimbob3030 I am not Orthodox Christian, but for me all the other Christianities seem off
Who is god?
Jesus
Is Jesus the son of Mary?
Yes
Who created Mary?
God.
Who is God?
Jesus
Jesus was a born child.
Yes
Who is his father?
God.
Who is God?
Jesus.
Jesus is a servant of God?
Yes
Who is God?
Jesus.
Jesus died on the cross?
Yes
Who raised it?
God.
Who is God?
Jesus
Jesus is the messenger?
Yes
Who sent it?
God.
Who is God?
Jesus.
Did Jesus worship while on earth? Yes
Who does he worship?
God.
Who is God?
Jesus.
Does God have a beginning?
No ....
Then who was born on 25 DEC? Jesus.
Who is God?
Jesus.
Where is God?
In heaven
How much is there in heaven? There is only one God.
Where is Jesus?
He sat to his father's right.
Who is God?
Jesus.
So how many of them are in heaven?
There is only one God
Then how many seats?
One
Where is Jesus?
Sit next to God.
Then how do they sit?
In one chair
This is only understood by those who have a holy spirit.
Who is God?
Jesus.
Think and act ..
Congratulations, you can recite your beliefs. The issue is, you can’t show that any of it is more than imaginary ideas. You can’t show how you reached those conclusions using reliable tools for discerning truth about reality.
makes no sense
That reads like brain trauma.
@@jimbob3030 maybe written by someone who did well in creative writing, but no so well in religion class
@@erikriza7165 To me it's like we are seeing inside someone's head in real time how cognitive dissonance destroys critical thinking skills.
Not true. Plenty opening up in the south
Perhaps if that minister took that stupid mask off, people can understand his speech. Why are so many churches dying? The lyric from an old rock song said "too many churches, too little truth."
While my heart hurts for their faith which I myself left if you ask many of these ministers their policies on the queer community, women’s rights and the morality of others not of the faith. You will see why attendance will continue to plummet.