“It may come as no surprise that the influence of Christianity in the United States is waning (especially Gen Z, 1999-2015). Rates of church attendance, religious affiliation, belief in god, prayer, and Bible-reading have been dropping for decades.” Atheist is no longer a dirty word for these young people.
“Religious leaders in central Maine split on Mills’ house of worship order,” or so the headlines in this newspaper read. What wasn’t reported is some
I am appalled reading the comments from both sides of the aisle condemning the Christian terrorists to attempt to overthrow the government on January 6, an event born out of the long-standing political division, as though the insurrection was a complete surprise. Unlike the saying ‘If you see something, say something,’ the insurrection has its roots in seeing something and saying nothing.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana. After prohibition in America was repealed because it resulted in organized crime
The evangelical movement has its roots in the early 1800s. Some theologians thought liberal Christians lost their way and sought to unify all protestant denominations into a single religion, one based on a literal and conservative interpretation of the Bible.
The Trump glorifying letter-to-the-editor, “Trump critics now in a sad place” by Paul Anderson published in this newspaper on March 17, claims those on the
The Founding Fathers proposed a representative form of democracy in which each state would have equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House based on population. Slave states opposed this because, with smaller white populations, they would have less representation in the House and less influence in national politics. Southern states would not ratify the Constitution unless they could count their slaves.
How to tell if your religious freedoms are being denied
