Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by engineeringwoke on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:55AM (#26622626)

I think you are looking for a regular socially democratic government, not a church.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by subpixel on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:22PM (#26627685)

Only the state-sponsored dating, which I’m sure is not what the commenter was implying!

If you’ve never lived in a society that offered socialist advantages like affordable health care, elder care, government-funded community engagement programs, etc. then I guess it’s easy to be scared by things you don’t understand.

I’m not putting this on you, but when people turn to religion with fear already pulsing through their veins, good things never happen.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by bopbeepboop on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:30PM (#26642561)

> If you’ve never lived in a society that offered socialist advantages like affordable health care, elder care, government-funded community engagement programs, etc. then I guess it’s easy to be scared by things you don’t understand.

I don’t think it’s commenting in good faith to think the only reason I would find those things dystopic is because I am ignorant or haven’t experienced them.

That sort of insulting non-answer from utopian is precisely what tends to scare me — and lead to horrific outcomes in the real world.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by subpixel on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:23AM (#26647706)

I'm not guessing that it's easy to misunderstand things one has not experienced - that's axiomatic. And there's nothing utopian about, for example, healthcare in Germany (with which I have a decade's experience) - it's just more accessible, more affordable, and more effective at producing public health outcomes than what exists in America, my country of birth.

There is nothing dystopian about having a dental emergency handled in the middle of the night, at no cost to you.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by bopbeepboop on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:27AM (#26647739)

> I'm not guessing that it's easy to misunderstand things one has not experienced - that's axiomatic.

I’ll say it again:

You’re assuming I’m ignorant about or haven’t experienced what you’re talking about.

This comment, like the one before, isn’t made in good faith.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by dang on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:42PM (#26652890)

If you continue to break the site guidelines like this we are going to have to ban you again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by subpixel on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @12:13PM (#26649089)

> This comment, like the one before, isn’t made in good faith.

That's a rich assessment on a thread about the precipitous decline in US church attendance.

I rest my case.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by dang on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:43PM (#26652898)

Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of what another commenter does. It only makes things worse.

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

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