Churches faced with empty pews are fighting to keep their doors open, while former houses of worship are being converted into bars, clubs and luxury condos.
And also the whole culture of teaching hate, fear, vindictiveness, selfishness, violence, exclusion, ignorance, discrimination, etc. Everything they teach and stand for is in stark opposition to everything the person they’re named after taught and stood for. You don’t need churches or institutions or pastors to live the way Jesus told people to live. None of it needs organization at all. The organization of religion, including Christianity, is nothing more than an authoritarian political weapon.
Could it be the armies of sexually assaulted children turning people off of Christianity?
And also the whole culture of teaching hate, fear, vindictiveness, selfishness, violence, exclusion, ignorance, discrimination, etc. Everything they teach and stand for is in stark opposition to everything the person they’re named after taught and stood for. You don’t need churches or institutions or pastors to live the way Jesus told people to live. None of it needs organization at all. The organization of religion, including Christianity, is nothing more than an authoritarian political weapon.