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Re:The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is t... by mistrial9 on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:41PM (#41142440)
this is really odd to read, since almost all of the Protestant-related theology in the US West seems to have dropped evil and hell almost entirely. At a graduate theology seminar on the History of Religion in America, Professor Robert McDermott asked the group "How many of you believe in 'evil' ?" and only half the class raised their hands (about a dozen).
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Re:The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is t... by pjlegato on Saturday August 03, 2024 @12:38PM (#41147621)
You are speaking of what is called "mainline Protestantism."

Catholicism is, by far, the largest Christian denomination in the US.

Moreover, large areas in the south, midwest, and California favor the "evangelical" and "fundamentalist" varieties of Protestant theology, where Hell (and inculcating mass fear of Hell) is very much the central concern today.

Your immediate local community likely does not have many of either group.

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