In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace

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12. A ton of them are just awful.

A lot of them are not. In the Northeast, for example, there are a fair amount of UCC churches, almost all of which are vocally and actively aligned with liberal values. A fair amount of them have signs and banners like this one https://www.uccresources.com/products/be-the-church-rainbow-banner-vertical . There are other denominations that skew center left, too.

Though an 'out' atheist, I marched with church folks from four states on a protest for immigration justice. Some Christians are with us, and even some whole denominations, and I am not personally willing to throw them all under the bus due to the actions of those who are nominally or situationally Christians when it suits them or when they want to twist religion to give cover for their other racist or misogynist bias.


Short story, I worry about the baby and bathwater with this issue.
When we tend towards binarity on it then we play into the religious right's hands by seeming like godless Democrats (or "militant secularists" like from Barr's speech the other day) acting happy upon hearing of religious decline.