In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace

Re:In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace by traderjane on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:46PM (#21284529)

1. Which community does? The Christian community? If so, do you have an intuition over the proportion of HN people who were raised in Abrahamic faiths? Do you presume that the voices which monitor the conversation aren't personally experienced?

2. Or the academic community formed by the Abrahamic faiths? Did you reserve some expectation that secular scholars in academia are about to pop in?

3. And if people cannot discuss these matters, are they to receive the truth from a better source? Which source should we receive it from?

4. If most discussions never reaches into data-driven conversation, does that put them all in the same bin for you? Aspirational speech, perhaps?

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Re:In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace by dang on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:57PM (#21284658)

I don't know which community does, but I suspect there's no large public internet forum that does. The topic is too activating.

To get substantive discussion of religion, you probably need smaller groups that have a certain amount of cohesion. A group can be cohesive even if it disagrees. But a large group with weak cohesion discussing a provocative topic is probably always going to plummet to lowest-common-denominator quickly.

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