Decline of Christianity has slowed or maybe stopped. Posting memes isn't going to bring Christianity down. We need to act.
We are going to need an active, serious, directed program to bring down Christianity, not just sharing memes to show for the 1,273rd time that Christianity isn't logical to Facebook atheists.
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Pew Research Center poll results.
Pew Research Center, Feb. 26, 2025, “Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off.”
After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians shows signs of leveling off – at least temporarily – at slightly above six-in-ten, according to a massive new Pew Research Center survey of 36,908 U.S. adults.
There is a table showing a steady decline but the percentage starts to turn around in 2022. It was 63 percent in 2019, declined and then started to rise and is 62% in 2023-2024 study. (There is a 2024 point on the graph for 63%, but they don’t say what that is.)
However, there are factors that indicate that though the decline has halted over the last 6 years, it is likely to decline more in the future.
But, despite these signs of recent stabilization and abiding spirituality, other indicators suggest we may see further declines in the American religious landscape in future years.
Namely, younger Americans remain far less religious than older adults.
For example, the youngest adults in the survey (ages 18 to 24) are less likely than today’s oldest adults (ages 74 and older) to:
Identify as Christian (46% vs. 80%)
Pray daily (27% vs. 58%)
Say they attend religious services at least monthly (25% vs. 49%)
And the youngest adults are more likely than the oldest Americans to be religiously unaffiliated (43% vs. 13%).
Also, younger Americans are less likely than older adults to say they were raised in religious households.1 And, compared with older adults, fewer young people who were raised in religious households have remained religious after reaching adulthood.
However, there might be a new trend in younger people changing as they get older to be more religious and the poll results might be indications. I am using “might” here alot, but I want to indicate that polls are somewhat after the fact of some trend or social change operating.
This is the executive summary of the poll.
Gays can’t be complacent about Christianity.
It is the number one source of homophobia in the United States and the world.
It is the force behind the effort to get rid of same sex marriage in the United States.
There is no secular movement against same sex marriage. It is a Christian movement.
Yet, when bringing up tactics to deal with Christianity, I get responses that Christianity is going to go down without intervention and there is no reason to act.
In history trends stop or reverse themselves. The social forces driving one trend often stop and there can be new social forces driving a contrary trend.
Earlier in a review of the PRRI poll results, I pointed out that some Christianities are declining, but not all branches of Christianity are declining.
There is this complacent attitude that the decline of Christianity is inevitable.
The future is opaque. It is full of the unexpected.
Nothing is inevitable.
We don’t have an effective defense against Christian aggressions.
The Christians are planning to get rid of Gay marriage.
The counter response is going to be ineffective and pathetic.
There will be the protest where we can show how angry we are. Or spew out slogans.
There will be the liberal Christian and the Gay Christian with their pious sentimentalities saying what “true” Christianity is and their sad faces.
There will be the Gay Democrats with their perennial solution of voting for the Democrats, a party which has lost the Supreme Court, the presidency, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives, and are losing much more.
We will be victims and there are those who see victimhood as a drama opportunity.
We need to go after Christianity. We need to target the source of our problems.
This is something the Gay Democrats won’t do since they are part of a political party willing to recruit homophobic Christians to win elections.
The liberal Christians and Gay Christians will be against this.
One more meme in an atheist Facebook group to be seen by other atheists isn’t going to do it.
Atheist groups pre-occupied with showing Christianity isn’t logical aren’t going to do it.
Current atheist movement isn’t effective.
A lot of atheists think atheism is joining a debating society where you can show how smart you are.
The current atheist movement is concerned with converting Christians to atheism with logic. A project that is ever failing. They also reject or don’t care to do anything but endlessly put forth their logical arguments.
Christianity has declined because an emotional rejection of Christianity as being intolerant, not because of the atheist movement.
When people leave Christianity, they mostly don’t go into atheism.
Our goal needs to be to disable, defeat and demolish Christianity.
However, disabling is good enough.
We just need to disable Christianity so that they can’t effectively go after Gays.
We don’t need to convert them to atheism.
We can demoralize Christians so they drop out of their churches or just not fight as hard.
We can try to get Christians fighting each other.
We can encourage confusion in their theology.
We can make sure that their scandals are widely known.
There are a lot of things we could do to bring down Christianity.
I have been trying think of additional tactics and publish them so we have a tool set of things that we could possibly do.
We need to start organizing and mobilize. We need to think globally and other Gays around the world need to mobilize against against Christianity.
