Christian Publicists Need Help

In the early years of this blog, there were several Catholics who liked to argue with me in the comments. When I predicted a continued decline in Christian numbers, they would point out this decline would not happen in Catholicism. It would not happen because of the growth in Hispanic membership. That growth would happen, they said, because of continual immigration and a higher birth rate among Hispanic people. Every year since then, including this year, surveys show the same decline among Hispanic Catholics as among other Catholics and Christianity in general. This year was a little different because the decline was bigger among Hispanics than among non Hispanics. Member the Spanish phrase, NO MAS. It now applies to believing the old-time religion of Catholicism. 

Female Hispanics are leaving faster than males. Why would reasoning among women of Hispanic heritage be different than the reasoning on women from non Hispanic heritage? When every place in their lives, opportunities exist for women but when they walk into church these opportunities do not exist, why would they not turn around and walk out? 

The challenge for both men and women who remain in the denomination are to come up with some explanation for this exodus of women other than the obvious one that it discriminates against them. There were almost laughable explanations in the comments here years ago. One was that the almighty had designed the genders differently. Men were designed to take charge of relationships and families while men were deprived of the great power women have, to give birth. For some reason, the power to give birth left women unable to be equals in powers in relationships and family, The male was to provide "leadership", the female was to be supportive. 

One frequent poster back then was from the no-women-behind-the-pulpit Missouri Synod Lutherans. He posted that women in the denomination did not want to take on the role of preacher. I asked if there had ever been an anonymous poll of women that confirmed this was the agreed view of the majority of women in the denomination. He replied that, of course, there was no such poll because that was not how the denomination decided things. Men decided such things.

The Christian faith badly needs some explanation for the exodus of women. It doesn't seem to come up with anything and will have to admit the faith is mostly not a place for them.