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 Post subject: Christianity R.I.P.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:36 am 
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Newsweek and MSN have some very heavy information for you.
You may need to sit down for this, it's so huge...

Take a deep breath, and try to stay calm, alright?

You see.....it turns out................................

Christianity died.

I know, I know... it's not possible. It can't be dead. There were so many Christians! What happened?!?

I know you're in denial right now, and that's OK. That's the first step of grieving. It's also OK because well........it's a gross over-exagerration by the mainstream media meant simply to spook you with a dramatic headline that is utterly misleading and takes a fairly minor shift in public polling and presents it as an apocalyptic armageddon for Christianity...

Aside form the OMINOUS photo and headline on MSN, the article quotes someone as saying this: "The most basic contours of American culture have been radically altered. The so-called Judeo-Christian consensus of the last millennium has given way to a post-modern, post-Christian, post-Western cultural crisis which threatens the very heart of our culture." ...days after he wrote this, he had grown even gloomier. "Clearly, there is a new narrative, a post-Christian narrative, that is animating large portions of this society,"

DUN-dun-DUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!

Who knew that Christianity had suffered such a death-blow, right? I was unaware it was on life-support and fading fast....I mean, I would have expected the number of self-identified Christians to have perhaps dropped over the last 20 years or so, due to the world becoming more modern, rational and scientific..... but at THE END?!? Wow....

That's right folks, hold onto your hats....as it turns out, the percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 percent since 1990, from 86 to 76. Horrors!!
And this! The number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has risen from 8 to 15 percent!!

It's the end for them, for sure!
But wipe those tears away, because the number of all people in the country who call themselves Christian is still more than 3 out of 4! And last I checked, that's still a 'consensus'.

What is this retardation?!

www.newsweek.com/id/192583?GT1=43002

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He he he.

I, too, saw this article and began the intense read about the major cultural shift. However, being a four page article, I was suffering heavy boredom after the first page, and at the end of the second page decided to give up on it and move on to more interesting, and hopefully more informative, information (like how to cure bad breath :roll:.

The only point to take from the entire thing is that America seems to be, ever so slowly, moving in the secular direction of Europe, which has a very low percentage of Christians, or any religion. But, we are clearly still a heavily Christian population. As an agnostic, does that make me a minority? :P

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