The most important changes don’t come in the form of attention-grabbing headlines, but subtle trends that quietly gather momentum until, by the time they finally burst into public view, they’re unstoppable.
By Adam Lee—DAYLIGHT ATHEISM
Such is the case with the most important, and paradoxically most underappreciated, trend in American religion today: the long-term, across-the-board decline of Christianity and the corresponding rise of atheism, which has been going on behind the scenes for more than twenty years and is now well underway.
The mainline Protestant churches, once the dominant cultural power in the United States, have already dwindled to shadows of their former selves and are well on their way to extinction. The largest Christian denominations remaining, including Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist, are likewise shrinking and struggling to come up with ways to reverse the decline. Evangelical megachurches, for all the media attention they’ve attracted, represent consolidation, not growth; and minority religions like Mormonism have poured enormous effort into evangelism with little to show for it. Meanwhile, the up-and-coming generation, the Millennials, are the least religious in American history – and unprecedentedly, they’re getting less religious as they get older.
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