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December 16, 2007 at 12:55:21

The Real Reason the Religious Right is Losing America

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Bowling for God, Michael Shermer, Scientific American, 12/06 - A seminal volume that documents the forces behind western secularism in Pippa

Sacred and Secular (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Norris and Ronald Inghelart, who also refute the free market hypothesis of American religiosity. 
 
Religious Views and Beliefs Vary Greatly by Country - According to the latest Financial Times/Harris Poll- According to the latest Financial Times/Harris Poll, while most Americans believe in God, only 36% attend a religious service once a month or more,  .
 
PEW Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007, The 2002 Pew Global Attitudes Project, the 2004 BBC/ICM, the 2004 BBC/ICM

2005 Eurobarometer – Social Values, Science and Technology and International Social Survey Program Religion I & II (ICSPR), a document concerning global religiosity and secularization which shows the adverse impact upon the former by higher education and income levels.

Tom Smith and Seokho Kim discuss the NORC data showing that Amerofaith is declining as the nonreligious rise in “The Vanishing Protestant Majority”, GSS Social Change Report 14, 2004

“The Decline of Religious Identity in the United States”, Institute for Jewish & Community Research, 2004 - Sid Groeneman and Gary Tobin explore the demographic factors behind the decline, while Michael Hout and Claude Fischer look at the socio-political aspect in “Why more Americans have no religious preference: politics and generations”, American Sociological Review, 2002  

The high levels of stress resulting from high levels of social disparity and insecurity are discussed in R. Sapolsky, Sick of poverty. Scientific American (6/2005); R. Wilkinson The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier. New Press, 2005); M. Marmot The Status Syndrome, Bloomsburg Publishing, 2004
 
Adelle Banks, “Southern Baptists address drop in baptism numbers”, The Washington Post, 6/18/05

P. Marler and C. Hadaway, Testing the Attendance Gap in a Conservative Church, Sociology of Religion, 1999, 60:175

S. Presser, Data collection mode and social desirability bias in self-reported religious attendance, American Sociological Review, 1998, 63:137 show that actual church attendance is much lower than indicated in surveys. 

John Judis and Ruy Texeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority, 2002

Also see Sager, R. Purple, mountains, Atlantic Monthly, 298(1), 37-41,2006  

Gallup, 2005, Religion in America: Who has None?

Gallup, 2006, Twenty-Eight Percent Believe Bible is Actual Word of God.
 

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Wanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors
M. DavisWanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors

Read this again:: "Christmas" is mercantile,not Gentile

Snip: When Bill O’Reilly claims that there is a war on traditional Christmas he is right, but when he blames the liberals he misses the mark. The mercantile interests have been converting the holidays into a profit generating shopping spree since the early 1800s.

And that is something these religious addicts either don't know, or can not comprehend the danger of.  The celebration of the birth of Christ, in Christianity has been hijacked by business to sell product. Most businesses make as much as 75% of their income during the "holiday season".  How is this materialistic baccanalia a celebration of one who was a-material?

All of these people yowling about not shopping at stores that say happy holidays instead of merry christmas are totally missing the point. This orgy of spending and consumption flies in the face of everything that Christianity is supposed to stand for and the only thing it has in common with the birth of Christ is that it is a prime example of the money lenders and temple parable, where materialistic, mercantile interests have hijacked a Holy Day and turned it into a consumer orgy.

by M. Davis (39 articles, 2 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 137 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 1:45:42 PM
 

 

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