Why is Christianity Declining

When I began blogging several years ago, there were articles about the falling numbers of Christians. But little was written by Christian authors admitting it was a problem. The thinking was it merely reflected a cycle and numbers would rise again. Instead, the decline has accelerated.

The drop in Christian numbers is now acknowledged widely. When solutions are suggested, however, it is usually to "invite more people to church." I've thought all along this will not help--that the problem is an unwillingness to believe the tenets of the faith are true. The faith stems from a book written centuries ago by the wealthy 1% of that time. People are leaving the faith because they are skeptical about what those wealthy goat herders once wrote.

It was interesting to read that two Christian professors both agree  when young people are told the Bible is the truth and then later find flaws they pack up and leave the faith.

Previous generations did not do this. In the past smaller percentages questioned the faith as young people and then most returned. Today the majority leave and only about half ever return.

What can be done about the decline? The professors will broach that topic in a future article.

From other such people I've read I know what solution they will propose. They will propose there are parts of the Bible readers can take literally and other parts readers must treat as metaphor. People need to be taught, they will say, which is which.

Efforts to delineate between good and bad reading of the Bible is like debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. This will not stop the exodus.

The decline will only end when the entire Bible is considered the musings of those ancients and not guided by some remote god. This honest approach will stand the test of time.