Decline of Christian Nation

Chuck on April 6th, 2009

picture-2Newsweek has on their cover, “The Decline and Fall of Christian America” – in the shape of the cross.  Interesting graphics, and title.  This article (read that here) and podcast (listen here) articulates that only 62% of Americans claim that America is in fact a “Christian Nation.”  This is steadily declining and has even more so the last 5 years.  The podcast also brings up the issue of justice work from people of faith and whether or not it’s authentic to their beliefs.  It also walks through how American culture is becoming more and more secular and what this may/may not mean for Christian believers.   Lastly, and this may or many not interest you, but it discusses the influence Christian believers have on politics and in particular the Republican party – on this note and another interesting point was apparently less than 20% of Catholics today claim to be Republican (interesting in that this is declining more and more).  Anyway, worth the read, or 8 minute listen to the podcast.

I’ll issue some thoughts on this possibly later this week.  But would love to hear some of your thoughts/comments about it first…

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Jon Greenhill at 5:47pm April 13

I found it interesting that it said that it was the fall of Christian America. The number of people associating themselves with Christianity has fallen but the article says that 76% still do compared to 1.3 Jewish and <1% Muslim. With that margin I’d say that it’s still predominately Christian.
Personally I think that people feel more comfortable saying they aren’t religious than they did in 1990.

las chicas mas calientes at 9:21am July 19

well.. it’s like I knew!

peeing in the woods at 11:21am July 23

eh.. bookmarked.