When we consider the data documenting the rapid decline of Christianity in the w

When we consider the data documenting the rapid decline of Christianity in the west, there are four different numbers:
1) What you were born or initiated into.
2) What sect you identify and report as.
3) How frequently you attend or participate.
4) How much you donate and contribute.

And:
5) Self Identification of membership of the sects is declilning.
6) Participation is a tiny fraction of self identification.
7) Donations are crashing.

Industrialized countries always abandon faith in each greneration unless the faith provides MORE services than the promised intermediation bretween the individual and the divine.

So does religion have any meainingful value?
What has replaced religon as providing superior value?
Is an organization separate from the state, separate from the ecnomy, responsibile for the ‘care and insurance of both physical and psychological’ desirable or enough value to cause people to participate?

What services would a ‘church’ need to provide in order to provide enough value to the polity so that they polity would bear the cost of its moral teachings?


Source date (UTC): 2024-01-02 03:17:09 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1742022189732200448

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