This is a response post to a top Reddit story that U.S. Christianity is Shrinking (2022):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christianity-us-shrinking-pew-research/
So which is it? I see factors going back and forth, and I will define "Christianity" broadly as any of these groups that claim to be Christian for the sake of this discussion (although I personally hold it to be a more narrow definition of only being the Church I believe is exclusively the one Christian Church).
On the one hand, we have groups like the Amish or Mormons who reproduce more than the general nonreligious population. While I see lots of people defecting from religion, I also see a lot of people doubling down on trying to take religion seriously. Those who have defected from Christianity seem to still seek out some kind of substitute religion, whether it is in science, New Age, Buddhism, or what have you.
So what do you think? Is "Christianity" growing or declining?
yeah that was one of my first thoughts in seeing this, it's just a self-fulfilling prophecy article intended to create the effect of the title even though it's not true, so I'm trying to do the same in the opposite direction with my post (although my title is not necessarily false, or intended to open up discussion on if it is true): they're trying to say "Christianity is dying" in order to make it so
interesting, I haven't given this thought but in a way I also fall in to this group. I follow Catholicism, but we believe the "mainline church" has been taken over and is not Catholic, so I am "home alone" (sedevacantist) in response and not involved in these church groups but am religious. c/sede