THE LIBERAL VOICE

The coming evangelical collapse

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Posted by The Liberal Voice
By Michael Spencer
christian science monitor

We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.

Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century. READ FULL ARTICLE

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html

America, one nation under no God?

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• Michelle Goldberg
• guardian.co.uk,

In his inaugural address, Barack Obama – doubtlessly realising that secularists constitute a big part of his base – described America as a "nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus ... and non-believers." Even Mitt Romney came to express second thoughts about leaving atheists and agnostics out of his high-profile campaign speech on faith. The United States is not Europe – it will likely be a long time before we have a publicly agnostic president – but it is becoming more tolerant of the godless.READ FULL ARTICLE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/mar/13/usa-religion