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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at what the American evangelical and right wing Catholic taliban are doing to the US. No one wants to be a part of that, so younger people are giving up religion entirely. [/quote]
I think you have it backwards. It's the mainline Protestant churches that "no one wants to be a part of" -- at least, in the sense that those churches are plummeting in attendance and membership at crazy high speed. Evangelical churches are remaining fairly stable in terms of numbers. Catholics are declining, yes.[/quote]

There is a difference between Protestant and evangelical...I see these get lumped together all the time. Evangelical: anti-women in the pulpit/deacons and anti-gay. Protestants are all over the place (inludging our mainline protestant church with women and gay persons in leadership).

Also membership in and of itself IS declining. No biggie. We're focusing on community and connection, and less on the rules of being in the club. This graph doesn't shock me at all. [/quote]

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