Church membership among US adults falls below 50% for the first time ever

Define church membership.

We moved to Texas last Summer and haven't found a church in our area we like.

Thankfully, our old church in Alabama broadcasts practically everything online so we can "attend" every service.

Churches gettin woke and goin broke.

This was prophesied 2000 years ago.

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Shocked it’s that high.

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It isn't. If my parents were still alive they would have answered in the affirmative despite having not set foot in a church in probably 30 years

How easy is it to be a church member at a time when COVID restrictions have fricked things six ways from Sunday?

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Churches gettin woke and goin broke.

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yes

It’s almost like someone is preventing them from going to church

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know a lot of people from the traditional middle class America with similar experiences. They grow up in a church, but somewhere along the way they quit going after a couple of moves and searching for a new church.

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I grew up in the Catholic Church. But along the way, I’ve found more faith in science than I do with the church. For the simple fact that the church is as flawed as I am. Doesn’t mean I don’t believe.

This is not a bad or good thing, but ppl don't need faith to be moral and good.

I understand many on this board are agnostic and frown upon religion, but even IF the whole religion thing is nonsense, it’s not at all clear that the alternative is better.

Church membership gave people meaning and a support system. Taught people how to be around others and act within society

I can’t help but wonder if the explosion in isolation and mental illness and anxiety of our youth isn’t correlated with a decline in membership in churches, after school clubs, etc

I am not even talking about religion. Churches are, when you boil it all down, just another societal organization.

I don’t want to see a decline in these kinds of things without a guarantee that kids and adults are replacing it with other forms of contact and relationship.

The early results suggests they are not.

We should not be cheering the decline of ANY organization that gets people out of the house and into productive side activities.