Die große Entkirchlichung Amerikas
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/26/great-unchurching-america-religiously-unaffiliated
Die große Entkirchlichung Amerikas
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/26/great-unchurching-america-religiously-unaffiliated
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>Some Christian conservatives have framed the Sept. 10 assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as a potential inflection point for a religious „awakening“ and for Gen Z to revitalize churches.
>Reality check: There is no widespread academic or mainstream evidence of a large-scale national religious awakening
>Despite anecdotal and media reports about Gen Z men returning to church, there’s little evidence it’s happening beyond scattered examples to reverse the overall decline, she said.
Well, some of America’s biggest advertisers for Christianity are a drunken murderer,
A pedophile, murderer and felon,
A low grade house speaker who covers for pedophiles and shares porn habits with his son
Just to name a few, you just have such good role models. Why wouldn’t you be sending out a good message here?
People like Charlie Kirk are one of the biggest reasons that Americans started staying away from churches in the first place.
If churches became community centers again, places where all are welcome, places where the actual words of Jesus are taught and practiced, then I bet they’d do a bit better on attendance.
Is this really about religion — or about institutions losing credibility?
Good religion is at the root of most the problems in the US. I hope the trend continues.
Being a „Christian“ in America no longer has much to do with actually practicing the tenets of Christianity. It’s more of an ethnic and political marker than a religious marker. That’s a big part of why the founding fathers made sure that separation of church and state was an explicit part of the Constitution. They knew that commingling politics and religion was bad for both.
I think the story arc of Jesus in South Park this season kind of sums it all up. A lot of „Christians“ in America couldn’t care less about the actual teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. They are just looking for something to use as an excuse for treating other people like shit.
Tax them. It’s a free campaign platform for the right.
Sane people are offended by religions that use Jesus and God as a weapon of hate. Certainly smart enough not to give 10% + of their income to finance hate.
Good, keep it up
Finally, some good news about the USA.
>And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
— Matthew 21:12–13, King James Version
Great, Christianity has almost ruined the country
This is the religious equivalent of brick and mortar stores finding out that people can just order it online.
Organized religion is a giant grift
Churches covering up the abuses their leaders do is rampant and unchecked. and because their emotional abuse works so well, they use the threat of being labeled a bad Christian to coerce their followers into bad decisions, it’s not even a crime you can build a case against in court. All the donors to Kenneth Copeland’s ministry failing to ask the critical question of why they need to donate when he’s clearly a multimillionaire, and they are on food stamps, are making the choice. Religion is a perfect grift.
Im fucking tired of Abrahamists. I wish they would stfu and stop shoving their beliefs down my throat
They have their church, temple, mosque… yet they invade every other space
This article is not explicitly about politics. It is off topic. It shouldnt be here.
But it has to be here, because their internicene disputes threaten he world
Fuck all of them…. God, Yahweh, Allah
I wish religion would just disappear. It has and continues to be one of the worst things ever dreamt up by man.
Social media gives it a run for its money but we don’t have millennia of effects to study yet.
Hard to believe in a higher power watching over you when everything sucks all the time and evil wins every time
I used to go to church every Sunday, tithe 10% of my income, volunteer, etc… then Trump and the MAGA crowd somehow infested the church, or maybe they were always there waiting for a chance to show who they really were without fear. Either way, back before Covid during one of the pastors sermons he started talking about how great a Christian Trump was and how Democrats don’t represent Christian values were demonic and such. I literally called him out on his lies right there in front of everyone, told him he was the demonic one and walked out and have not and will never go back to church.
Edit: this wasn’t the first time they had made statements like this, I had just gotten sick of it and couldn’t take it anymore… pretty sure that church is on hard times last I heard
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” – Seneca
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” – Voltaire
“If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.” – Marcus Aurelius
If Christians were more Christ-like maybe, instead they are the poster childs for exactly why to stay away.
Also how many church leaders get caught in child sex crimes time and time again?
No thanks, I’ll keep enjoying my Sundays.
Maybe, just maybe, rational people see the right wing christians as fake christian fascists that worship an orange pedo. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, Christian about the right wing evangelical churches. It is a sea of hate, bigotry, sexism, anti gay bigotry and especially anti trans hate and bigotry. Evil people all of them
I moved to a Bible Belt state for three years, in an area where people had 2-3x the average salary, and yet the roads were shit, there weren’t a lot of parks, and whatever parks there were were poorly kept, the public schools were terrible, everything looked rundown…and there was a tax-exempt church on what felt like every corner. Needless to say it was a relief that I could easily get the fuck out of that shit hole.
I hope America becomes majority atheist sooner rather than later. It’s the only way this country will survive.
Hold on while I cry for the tax free grift machine that is religion. Tax churches.
I left a long time ago due to the Prosperity d
Doctrine. Since then other family members have left due to the Christian Nationalist Doctrine.
Churches in America haven’t been teaching/preaching the bible for a loooong time.
almost every person i know who thinks of themselves as „a christian and a patriot“ is a bigoted selfish sexist. why would i want to stand with people who hate me and mine.
The easiest moral question of the last 5 years was vote Trump or Kamala. There was a clear right and wrong answer. Looking at exit polls the demographic most likely to get that question wrong was Christians (but especially white Christians). Which is truly ironic because their main argument for what Christianity provides people is a set of morals.
This leaves us with the conclusion that Christianity counter indicates morality.
It’s funny cause for years we go through the motions, expose our kids, and keep up the pretense that Christianity=morality. But not anymore now you have to protect your kids from Christian influence lest they get the wrong idea.
Christians clearly wanted to destroy their own brand.
You can’t make a worse association than electing a person who embodies the exact opposite of virtually every tenant of Jesus and the bible.
An adulterous bearer of falsehoods about his neighbors who supports predatory lending, turns away the poor and the immigrant, preaches taking your wealth into heaven and shelters child predators.
I’m agnostic and this ‚builder of towers‘ creep checks so many boxes that he makes even me consider believing in the antichrist.
I’m convinced my mother is stupid or senile to have studied the bible for a lifetime and then backed this maskless, unashamed barbarian.
Given the lead role of christian nationalism supporting fascist politics, uplifting sociopathic billionaires, and the inhumane treatment of non-whites, this is good news. If I was a devout Christian I’d suspect Trump is the anti-Christ.
The true teachings of Jesus are: compassion, moderation, and respect for all people. James Talarico is showing how it should be done.
This is not frightening.
What is really frightening is that so many “self proclaimed Bible followers” have no idea what is in the Bible.
In the long term, mass secularization may be inevitable unless we slide all the way back into a new Dark Age. Any religion ultimately conflicts with reality in some respect, and people aren’t going to abide by worldviews that arbitrarily limit their freedom and happiness. It’s why even conservative Christians don’t really follow all the rules of their faith.
As a Bible believing Christian, I’ll tell you exactly why people stop going to church because I’m one of them. I’ve gone to four different churches in the last 12 months and the people that go to these churches do not act like Christians or anything close to it. so I don’t blame people for not going to church
But I just saw of Faux News the other day that there was a 200% increase in church attendance amongst Gen Z and younger people… surely they can’t be lying, right? (/s)
The faster the churches disappear and we start funding and backing science again, the faster we will become a better nation.
There is zero proof of any Gods or omnipotent beings ever existing. It is all hearsay, or oral history. The Bible is not the word of God. It is the word of humans, that are cosplaying God.
I used to be a devout Christian but after the Maga Christian Nationalist took over the majority of churches I dipped away from that nonsense. Churches in the United States just want to preach politics and enjoy their tax exemption (just like the rich they pay no taxes) I mean they aren’t worshipping anything but the fat, disgraced, pedophilic President of the United States now. Who, by the way, has no idea about how the government works. He is an absolute moron with dementia creeping in his already child-like brain like his father. If he died tomorrow the world would rejoice, (except for his racist redneck cult, they would move on to the next great genius leader; whoever the GOP tells them to endorse.)
It’s wild to me that articles like this never really hone in on that some people might just not believe in God or a higher power?
I was „raised“ (if you could call it that) Catholic. Parents sent me to religious education classes so I could get my first Holy Communion, get Confirmation, etc., but mostly because that’s what they thought was „expected“ of them.
But I never believe it God – I remember walking into class one day (which was on Wednesday night at 7PM – I remember having to go cold and wet after swim team practice) and telling the nuns straight up that I didn’t believe in God…I remember them telling me that I was going to go to purgatory after I died and I was like ok?
The absolute worst people I know in life go to church and use it as an excuse to keep being shitty people.
Religion is all about power, it’s about using mythology and superstition to manipulate and control people. It’s too much an ingrained part of our political system and would require a revolution or a lobotomy. Although it’ll never happen eliminating the tax free status of all religions and their income and assets would be a great way to redistribute wealth.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
I am being dead honest….if someone volunteers „I’m a Christian „, I am automatically thinking I am going to be screwed over in a business deal or shanked in the back.
This is called consequences for decades of religious behavior. They’ve made it clear what religion stands for: tribalism, bigotry, and fairy tales. No thanks.
„When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.“
-Sinclair Lewis
I was kind of exploring returning to church about 10 years ago but then the whole MAGAification of Christianity completely changed my mind. I can’t be in a place that is a sanctuary for so much hate. No thanks. I’m good.
If Jesus had shown up in the US in 2025, he would have been rounded up by ICE and probably sent off to CECOT without due process. There are videos of ICE rounding up folks on Christmas Day.
Christian nation? Not one bit.