Right-Wing Politics is Driving People Away From Church

[Dawg]

Easter.

The Bunny doesn't count...……...

 

[Dawg]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/02/politics/donald-trump-dictators-kim-jong-un-vladimir-putin/index.html

Why of all progs do YOU want a WAR!

'Don't Ask Don't Tell'

 

[Constitutional Sheepdog]

Interesting read...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-christian-right-is-helping-drive-liberals-away-from-religion/?yptr=yahoo

"But when two sociologists, Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, began to look at possible explanations for why so many Americans were suddenly becoming secular, those conventional reasons couldn’t explain why religious affiliation started to fall in the mid-1990s. Demographic and generational shifts also couldn’t fully account for why liberals and moderates were leaving in larger numbers than conservatives. In a paper published in 2002, they offered a new theory: Distaste for the Christian right’s involvement with politics was prompting some left-leaning Americans to walk away from religion.

It was a simple but compelling explanation. For one thing, the timing made sense. In the 1990s, white evangelical Protestants were becoming more politically powerful and visible within conservative politics. As white evangelical Protestants became an increasingly important constituency for the GOP, the Christian conservative political agenda — focused primarily on issues of sexual morality, including opposition to gay marriage and abortion — became an integral part of the the party’s pitch to voters, but it was still framed as part of an existential struggle to protect the country’s religious foundation from incursions by the secular left. Hout and Fischer argued that the Christian right hadn’t just roused religious voters from their political slumber — left-leaning people with weaker religious ties also started opting out of religion because they disliked Christian conservatives’ social agenda."

I don't feel bad the churches. they made they choices, now they can live with the consequences.

Here is a really relevant read and more interesting than your op
1 John 2:15-17 - Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (Read More...)

Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

1 John 2:15 - Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

James 4:4 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Colossians 2:8 - Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Matthew 6:24 - No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

1 John 3:13 - Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

1 John 2:16 - For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

John 12:46 - I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

John 15:18-21 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. (Read More...)

Hebrews 13:5 - [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Ephesians 5:11 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].

Matthew 7:13 - Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

1 John 2:17 - And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Romans 14:1-23 - Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations. (Read More...)

2 Corinthians 4:4 - In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

 

[EatTheRich]

Why of all progs do YOU want a WAR!

'Don't Ask Don't Tell'

I don’t want a war. I also don’t want the dictatorship the ruling class is preparing for us.

 

[Nutty Cortez]

Interesting read...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-christian-right-is-helping-drive-liberals-away-from-religion/?yptr=yahoo

"But when two sociologists, Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, began to look at possible explanations for why so many Americans were suddenly becoming secular, those conventional reasons couldn’t explain why religious affiliation started to fall in the mid-1990s. Demographic and generational shifts also couldn’t fully account for why liberals and moderates were leaving in larger numbers than conservatives. In a paper published in 2002, they offered a new theory: Distaste for the Christian right’s involvement with politics was prompting some left-leaning Americans to walk away from religion.

It was a simple but compelling explanation. For one thing, the timing made sense. In the 1990s, white evangelical Protestants were becoming more politically powerful and visible within conservative politics. As white evangelical Protestants became an increasingly important constituency for the GOP, the Christian conservative political agenda — focused primarily on issues of sexual morality, including opposition to gay marriage and abortion — became an integral part of the the party’s pitch to voters, but it was still framed as part of an existential struggle to protect the country’s religious foundation from incursions by the secular left. Hout and Fischer argued that the Christian right hadn’t just roused religious voters from their political slumber — left-leaning people with weaker religious ties also started opting out of religion because they disliked Christian conservatives’ social agenda."

I don't feel bad the churches. they made they choices, now they can live with the consequences.

Yes, churches going too far left wing is driving people away.