Christianity is GROWING in the U.S.

Christianity in the U.S. Is Growing Stronger And Stronger

U.S. Christianity is not shrinking but growing stronger, Glen Stanton writes in The Federalist. Referring to a Harvard Research he states that the percentage of Americans who attend church more than once a week, pray daily, and accept the Bible as wholly reliable has remained steel-bar constant for the last 50 years or more. This regards a third of the population. Attending services more than once a week continues to be twice as high among Americans compared to the next highest-attending industrial country.

Only the Liberals Have A Millstone Around Their Necks

Stanton does not deny that mainline churches - among them the liberal Catholic Church - are tanking as if they have super-sized millstones around their necks. But he points out that many of their ex-members are not leaving Christianity. Quote, "They are simply going elsewhere."

The Evangelicals Gain

Stanton has an explanation for this. Quote, "When the so-called ‘progressive’ churches question the historicity of Jesus, deny the reality of sin, support abortion, ordain clergy in same-sex relationships and perform their marriages, people desiring real Christianity head elsewhere." Therefore evangelical churches gain five new congregants exiled from the liberal churches for every one they lose for any reason.

Believers Have Many Children

There is another important key factor according to Stanton: Faithful people grow more children. The more robust baby-making practices of Christians, as opposed to the baby-limiting practices of liberals, create many more seriously religious people than a secular agenda can keep up with. Quote, “The secular West and East Asia are aging and their share of the world population is declining. This means the world is getting more religious even as people in the rich world shed their faith.”