The End of Christian America

[Ed Anger]

I wish there were more hot chicks at Princesca's family church.

They need to bring a dentist in there STAT.

Middle class church goers for the win!

[Caliga]

Middle class

Not this bunch.

Princesca has: dramatically improved her lot in life.

[crazy canuck]

The numbers I've seen still show that the number of self-identified evangelicals continues to increase.

Evangelical christianity is a bit like Amway.  Eventually they will run out of friends and relatives to whom they can pitch their product.

[Ed Anger]

Middle class

Not this bunch.

Princesca has: dramatically improved her lot in life.

I thank my parents every year for moving the hell away from Kentucky.

[Caliga]

What amuses me is that I now have alot of Facebook "friends" who are native to this area, and tons of them put stuff like this in the "Religion:" field:

"OMG JAYSYS IS MAH GAHDING LAHT"

Strangely, it seems these are also always the people who engage in lots of immoral behavior like drug use, out of wedlock children, DUIs, and so on.

I can't think of any 'secular' friends I have who have similarly shady morals.

[vinraith]

What amuses me is that I now have alot of Facebook "friends" who are native to this area, and tons of them put stuff like this in the "Religion:" field:

"OMG JAYSYS IS MAH GAHDING LAHT"

Strangely, it seems these are also always the people who engage in lots of immoral behavior like drug use, out of wedlock children, DUIs, and so on.

I can't think of any 'secular' friends I have who have similarly shady morals.

Three words: Guilt based culture.

[Ed Anger]

What amuses me is that I now have alot of Facebook "friends" who are native to this area, and tons of them put stuff like this in the "Religion:" field:

"OMG JAYSYS IS MAH GAHDING LAHT"

Strangely, it seems these are also always the people who engage in lots of immoral behavior like drug use, out of wedlock children, DUIs, and so on.

I can't think of any 'secular' friends I have who have similarly shady morals.

This chick that gave me the best blowjob ever was so religious, Jesus himself would start edging away from her.

But damn, she was a freak in the sack. But on Sunday, she was in the front pew.

[Neil]

When will currency read "In PT Anderson and Sofia Coppola We Trust" 

Maybe when Sofia Coppola starts making good films again, rather than relying on the strength of her first one.

[Viking]

What amuses me is that I now have alot of Facebook "friends" who are native to this area, and tons of them put stuff like this in the "Religion:" field:

"OMG JAYSYS IS MAH GAHDING LAHT"

Strangely, it seems these are also always the people who engage in lots of immoral behavior like drug use, out of wedlock children, DUIs, and so on.

I can't think of any 'secular' friends I have who have similarly shady morals.

I've always attributed that to the source of behaviour. The atheist can base his behavior of his morality because doesn't need to square his deeds with an external source of morality but only his conscience, while the believer needs to square his personal view of right and wrong with his external source of morality.

[Caliga]

I try to avoid getting excessively anecdotal on Languish, but this is something I just noticed the other day and thought it was relevant.

[Iormlund]

Spain ! = The World.  If the Left had won the Civil War, in all probability after the collapse of a Communist Spanish government you'd have seen the rebirth of Catholicism; instead, the Church went into bed with Franco and still suffers from that.  Combined with the European tendency towards Secularization and you have a powerful social force.

But this is a unique case.  Hinduism is reviving under the BJP, Islam with Fundamentalism and the AKP, Christianity in China and with Evangelical movments encroaching on the terf of an ineffectual Catholic Church...

If anything the argument could be made that Secularism seems to be loosing ground outside of the United States, with the growth of Islam in Europe, and religious moments across Asia. 

Nice try.

If the commies had won the war you could have seen something similar to what happened in Russia. Membership of the Church may have grown spectacularly after the commies lost power, but actual practice levels would not be higher than now.
Today's youth doesn't give a shit about Franco and they still don't flock to the seminars. They are more interested in oversize alloy rims and Jennies (the Spanish equivalent of white trash chicks).

About the rest, what Berkut said.

[Caliga]

"OMG today's youth don't care about anything  " is just about the oldest accusation there is.  I believe I read it in Suetonius

[katmai]

I try to avoid getting excessively anecdotal on Languish, but this is something I just noticed the other day and thought it was relevant.

[Caliga]

EXCESSIVELY.

[katmai]

EXCESSIVELY.

And yet i still  at you sir!