Can You Come Up With a Way to Save Christianity



Every week the results of another survey is released showing the decline in those who consider themselves to be Christian. It gets a little boring to write about them here. What's interesting, however, is trying to see behind the curtain of those trying to save the faith. In the Pew link above, a questionnaire asked about things like "does your religion fulfill a spiritual need", "Is the social aspect of church important to you" and other general questions. 

For those who have left the faith behind there are other repetitive and rather meaningless selections that respondents can choose, "I don't believe in the tenets of the faith, "There is too much scandal" and "I did not like some people in the church." The questionnaire left the opportunity for respondent to write their own comments. But few offer suggestions diagnosing the decline in Christianity. Without a wide number of explanations for leaving the faith people in the faith do not know what went wrong. That is, how can the decline be reversed?

I wish these surveys would ask those who were once in the faith but who have left an open ended question: What would it take to bring you back into the faith? I have never seen this done. What do you think people would answer?

I think some would say, "Present evidence there is a God" while others would say "Nothing could bring me back." Both of these answers are the same. Those who have left know there is no evidence of a God and never will be. 

My observation is there is nothing that Christians can do to change the downward trajectory of the faith.   

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