A new Gallup poll reveals that church membership has decreased 23% over the last 20 years. Roughly 70% of Americans were members of a church from 1940 through 2000, but since 2000 church membership has quickly declined. It fell 9% from 2000 to 2010, and 14% from 2010 to 2020.
Gallup attributes more than half of the drop in church attendance to the increase in those who no longer identify with any particular religion. However, even among the religiously affiliated, church membership is down across all age demographics (but rates are higher the younger the demo).
Thinking to Believe 
April 1, 2021 at 9:48 am
Church was only “social community” in the heyday of human population but with the advent of civilizing and internet socializing. The only real difference is that Internet social media is part real and part fake and church is all fake and it won’t be long before nobody will go to church except in the Philippines and third world countries where religion still has more influence than it should.
So the decrease I say is a good thing, a progressive thing, a part of civilizing thing. Like John Lennon’s song prays….
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin’ for today
Ah, ah, ah-ah
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothin’ to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin’ life in peace
Yoo, hoo, ooh-ooh
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharin’ all the world
Yoo, hoo, ooh-ooh
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Yoo, hoo, ooh-ooh
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April 1, 2021 at 12:24 pm
no surprise there and what’s hilarious ……… hatred for God which people say they don’t believe in is on the rise also.
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April 2, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Why Church membership is falling?
I understand that it is because Paul faked a vision and elevated Jesus as Son of God , God , God in the flesh and or God in human form, just to take revenge from Jesus who had migrated from Judea, out the hands of Jews and out the hand of Romans. Paul who was after killing Jesus and persecuting his followers thought of new plan to character assassinate Jesus. By elevating Jesus from a Messenger/Prophet of God and putting on the head of Jesus the hat of divinity falsely of course, I figure, Paul assumed, falsely of course, the office of an Apostle of Jesus allured Jesus people to new creeds that had nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus. Credulous Christians have been following Paul for 2000 years, not Jesus. Now people have realized this so they are leaving Christianity and the Churches, please. Right?
Regards
https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx
https://theosophical.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/church-membership-is-falling-fast/
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April 15, 2021 at 2:58 pm
“no surprise there and what’s hilarious ……… hatred for God which people say they don’t believe in is on the rise also.”
Atheists do not hate God because they don’t believe he exists. At best atheists can say that IF he existed, they might hate him. After all, the Bible describes him as committing or condoning murder and genocide, animal and human sacrifice, torture, child and animal abuse, theft, slavery, rape, incest, cannibalism, betrayal and lying, and he repeatedly exhibits megalomania, sociopathy and narcissism. These are all behaviors and characteristics any sane, civilized person would identify as evil. It’s no different than noting Darth Vader’s behavior in Star Wars and describing him as evil, even though nobody believes he’s a real person.
What most atheists object to is not God, but religious fanatics (like Christian nationalists) who try to impose their theological dogma on society and undermine science. Wouldn’t you hate it if most people were, say, Muslims who wanted to pass Sharia Law and impose prayer to Allah five times a day? Well, atheists have the same response to the imposition of religions they don’t follow on their lives, too.
That’s one of the great things about the US Constitution: it established the first secular government, with the only mention of religion being exclusionary.
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April 26, 2021 at 9:36 pm
If churches would clean up the roles membership would fall even more.
The Bible presupposes membership. Excommunication and elders giving an account for sheep under their care are intelligible only if membership is true doctrine.
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