tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post2478340892272842769..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: The Wave of the Future Breaks on the RocksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-9830646507662693182011-06-14T10:41:22.437-04:002011-06-14T10:41:22.437-04:00I agree. People in general, and kids in particula...I agree. People in general, and kids in particular, have well-honed bullshit detectors these days. Evangelizing would be seen (rightly) as just another marketing campaign.<br /><br />Also, the dominance of evangelical Christianity and that very Calvinist version of the faith that they promote fits too well with the supremacist ideology that dominates Republican politics these days.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-1380894599867811932011-06-14T10:00:47.620-04:002011-06-14T10:00:47.620-04:00I agree with JCF. They're ageing, having fewer...I agree with JCF. They're ageing, having fewer kids, moving to cities and have major cultural differences with the growing part of the population (Hispanics, Asians, etc.) <br /><br />What I don't think many understand is that we live in a post-Christian culture where most people have their minds made up about the merits of belonging to organized religion. So more evangelism isn't going to fix their decline. People are evangelized and marketed for all kinds of causes all the time and by not most people, particularly younger people, have developed a thick skin. "Join us or you're going to hell" isn't going to work as well as it used to.toujoursdanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08106158181662408311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-71544983253085718772011-06-13T12:20:19.489-04:002011-06-13T12:20:19.489-04:00Thankfully, JCF is right!Thankfully, JCF is right!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01203286781888444548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-65150935403603254142011-06-13T01:13:54.364-04:002011-06-13T01:13:54.364-04:00In other words, they're facing the same demogr...In other words, they're facing the same demographic factors as the Mainline (inc TEC).<br /><br />It's just that, for them, demographic decline is a THEOLOGICAL crisis!<br /><br />"God is working [God's] purpose out, as year succeeds to year..."JCFnoreply@blogger.com