America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches

Re:America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches by NeedMoreTea on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:36PM (#18557854)

That seems at odds to the decline of religion across Europe.

UK is now majority atheist, and Ireland once devoutly catholic is far more secular than it was. A majority voted to end the ban on abortion in Ireland only this year. So I am baffled at what "crisis of secularism" Kaufman is imagining.

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Re:America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches by 706f6f70 on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:40PM (#18557871)

I think that the factor for Europe is immigration. A majority of new Europeans are Muslims and that is by far the fastest growing religion.

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Re:America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches by mirimir on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:06PM (#18558006)

Yes, fundamentalist Judaism and Islam do a great job at driving reproduction. And keeping women subjugated is a huge part of it.

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Re:America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches by dang on Thursday November 29, 2018 @02:42PM (#18563241)

Please keep religious flamebait and religious flamewar off Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches by mirimir on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:55PM (#18564467)

Sorry.

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