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

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by undefined1 on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:29AM (#26623220)

I agree, but beware that many people end up filling a religion shaped hole with other things. look at how many of our fellow atheists have joined the church of social justice. adhering to a new kind of religion and dogma. things you can't say, heretics who must be cast out, good vs evil, original sin, preachers, zealots, self flagellation. it's all there, except for a path to redemption.

https://reason.com/2020/06/29/kneeling-in-the-church-of-soci...

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by nicbou on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:34AM (#26623299)

I'm not sure if it makes sense to connect those two. Is there any more political zealotry among atheists than among the religious?

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by gumby on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:43AM (#26623489)

> religion shaped hole

Your statement presumes that there is something innate about religion.

There are billions of people who live completely off the line of explicitly atheistic <-> avowedly devout. They are by their nature not generally considered in such discussions.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by oblio on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:39AM (#26623389)

I think that at some level you need a belief system. There will always be things beyond us, so at some level the only thing we can do is guess. But we shouldn't let those guesses dominate our life and we should re-evaluate them completely, say, at least every decade.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by freewilly1040 on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:39PM (#26624439)

QAnon is also a filler of this void.

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