Pew poll – Lee Duigon

‘A Nation of Suckers’ (2016)

leeduigon(patty)August 10, 2022

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Some of us were upset by this 2016 Pew Poll that reported that 49% of people who’v e left the church no longer believe in God or miracles (and would you believe it” They’ve found corn in Kansas!). That also means that 51% still do, but that wasn’t in the headline.

A Nation of Suckers

There are all sorts of reasons for leaving the church. I left out of youthful laziness, and by the time I was ready to come back, my church had joined the Far Left Crazy. But along the way I learned that you don’t need a building to have a church–just people gathered together in Jesus’ name.

But oh, those replacement beliefs! “We’re too smart to believe in God! We’ve been to college!”

Like a bunch of mummified corpses dancing at a New Year’s ball…

Harvard Research: Religion in America is Getting Stronger

leeduigon(patty)April 23, 2019

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For those of us who missed this, first time out: research by Harvard University and Indiana University at Bloomington finds “religion”–mostly meaning Christianity–in America, contrary to claims by noozies and other motormouths, is not fading away, but getting stronger (https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/22/new-harvard-research-says-u-s-christianity-not-shrinking-growing-stronger/?fbclid=IwAR2XkMLvWJzF3P4lTkrhMg-wSVxzmAdiCKhMoGsjhpNuM9s8U-Tu5n2YX9U#.XH7kV-iIzB6.facebook).

Meanwhile, the latest Pew poll shows some 50% of Americans would like to see “religion” (again, they mostly mean Christianity but for some reason are afraid to say so) play “a greater role” in U.S. society–with 18% opposed. I would like to hear them explain how it would hurt us to live by Christian principles.

Anyway, read the article in The Federalist, it’s really quite heartening and certainly worth another look if you’ve read it already. The research finds “persistent and exceptional intensity” in America’s Christianity, holding steady over the past 50 years.

I think we need to see that as something to build on. Consider how few people actually believe in Far Left Crazy ideas–and how many of those ideas have become public policy, like “gay marriage” and late-term abortion, simply because fanatics pushed them night and day for many years? What might Christians achieve in America, building upon an already broad foundation?

We just have to be careful, before we start building anywhere, that that foundation is Jesus Christ. We all know this, don’t we?–“Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Psalm 127:1).

A Christian conscience, Christian families, Christian schools, Christian charities, a Christian popular culture–these are what we must build on that one foundation. Some have already built their share of this, and continue building as we speak.

If we would all join in–! I find inspiration in Haggai, Ezra, and Nehemiah: how the remnant of the Jews, released from captivity by King Cyrus, returned to the ruins of Jerusalem and rebuilt the Temple and the walls. What they did, with the Lord’s help, we can do, if God is our strength.

We can do it, if we hear His voice.

‘A Nation of Suckers’ (2016)

leeduigon(patty)March 28, 2019

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When I wrote this a few years ago, I had not yet observed that the Pew Poll is all over the map when it comes to religious issues. So of course it sounded really bad: “49% of people who have left the church no longer believe in God or miracles.”