crazy that church membership was pretty stable for 60 years then dropped immediately rapidly past 2000
@vanillaopinions people getting smarter basically always correlates with a drop in church membership
@vanillaopinions @ABeanTweeting “Church” going from being this inescapable social force I had to deal with to being laughably irrelevant by the end of my adolescence seems bizarre in hindsight.
@vanillaopinions Bush era evangelicals driving moderates away from churchgoing?
@vanillaopinions COVID stopped people who were only attending out of habit and community. The church will be better off with the true believers who remained. Easier to start a revival without lukewarm people dragging the movement down.
@vanillaopinions I'm sure most of it comes from the internet. Even some spiritual people stopped going to church because you can easily see the information on line. As far as recent years... Trump has given power to the worst people in churches and gave them a voice they didn't need.
I looked into this a while back and this is actually a bad thing. Not for religious reasons but it singles that Americans are loosing their sense of community and becoming more isolated. You can see the same trend if you look up how potential dating partners meet now. Early 2000s meeting in person rapidly dropped up due to the internet.
@vanillaopinions When did they bring in female Priests?