If they're devoting time to religion, they're paying less attention to the product.

They should be mocked for being the hypocrites they are.

Bigots SHOULD lose their place in society.

And support those who refuse to fund social programs such as food stamps and the ACA. Because the Jesus I know said,"feed the poor" and " be thy brothers keeper" and "heal the sick". These right wing Christians disgust me and turn me off of religion.

That sought to explain why the younger generation was leaving church/religion in droves or joining more liberal churches that of course don't preach the Bible, and it was because conservative evangelical churches have gotten too scared to call a sin a sin, softening the message, etc. due to public pressure and media.

Which to me is total horseshit. If anything, people started leaving churches or changing/leaving religion because they saw that what the evangelical churches were pushing wasn't true - that our gay friends and family members WEREN'T evil, that aligning themselves with republican policies was the antithesis of 95% of what Jesus preached, etc. And in that time, the conservative churches have gotten even more shrill about their beliefs rather than softening their message.

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Sunday Christians who should be surprised at the exodus? SCPL even has at least 1 huge 'Christian' group on their hate group list! Even the seemingly liberal Pope gets a hypocritical foot in his mouth.

I don't buy it. Not for a second.

Not only does it seem historically incongruous to me (Evangelicalism seems to have risen in response to an increasingly secular society, not vice versa), but there are much better explanations.

People are more mobile than they used to be. They don't grow up and settle in the same neighborhoods as their parents. They are more solitary, less community-oriented. If your religion is not reinforced by your community, it is much easier to stop practicing it... and there's very little expectation of negative social consequences for doing so.

Moreover, social welfare programs have taken over services previously relegated to religious organizations... and offering these services more efficiently. It's a hell of a lot easier to walk away from a church if you know you'll never have to rely on it for your next meal, or relief should you lose your job.

There is considerable overlap between the two groups but they are not the same thing, the fundamentalists and particularly the evangelical fundamentalists are definitely causing damage to the average person's view of Christianity.

that it is true.

and I'd say it was probably true over here. Go UK!