A new book on #US#religion, 'The Great Dechurching', has a survey of “dechurched #evangelicals”, of whom 68% said their #parents played a role in their decision to stop attending #church. The top 5 issues:
I have to wonder how congregants drifted that way. If they came to the idea from what their pastors said, it’s quite the indictment of the latter. If it’s from social media, it’s an indictment of the community (some might think this sentiment is harsh, but it’s reality), but the megaphone of contempt is well funded. They started with greed is good and then made vilification (false witness) a business model. We’re all living in that world.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@theologidons@theology as has been pointed out, these parents are often people are in church an hour per week, but watching Fox News and scrolling Facebook for hours more. Many decent pastors have, understandably, given up the struggle
Interesting #news values on the #BBC site just now- a performance at #pop#festival is apparently more important to us than how the #UK government responds to the #crisis in nuclear armed #Russia. And a bit further down, another performance at the same festival is more newsworthy than policy developments in the #SNP, a party seeking the breakup of the UK. I don't know who pockets the profits at #Glastonbury, but they must pay their #PR bods plenty to get this stuff reported as "news"