Reacting to New Research on American Evangelicalism | Here's The Stats!

In today's video, I respond to the newest stats on American Evangelicalism presented by CBN News. I cover the following:
- Lower Church Attendance
- Fewer Christians Are Reading Their Bible
- Fewer Christians In America
- Percentage of "true" Believers
- Beliefs Of The Modern Christian
- Implications For The Future

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:55 Clip 1
1:28 Church Attendance
3:30 Clip 2
3:49 Bible Reading And Number Of Christians
5:51 Clip 3
6:25 Born Sinners And "True" Believers
9:16 What Are The Implications?
14:17 Final Thoughts

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[MindShift-Brandon]

Welcome, all! How are we all feeling about the stats presented in this video?

[jgibson]

My wife challenged herself to read the Bible cover to cover during the pandemic. In August 2020 she came to me and stated that she no longer believed in the god of the Bible because of all of the heinous acts attributed to him and/or committed by him as well as the numerous Biblical contradictions that she found.

I have been an atheist for about 15 years and never really talked to her much about religion in order to keep the peace.

After her deconversion our marriage is amazing and we have a lot more to talk about. She isn’t filling our kid’s heads full of nonsense anymore and has become as much of an outspoken anti-theist as I have.

COVID-19 was and is a terrible disease but the pandemic caused gave people time to stop and think. Thinking is always a good thing.

[brycetorno]

The pandemic was an absolute godsend (pardon the irony) for the ex-Jehovah’s witness community. Many members who have woken up to the reality that it’s not “the truth” are still essentially held hostage because if they leave, their entire family and everyone they know will shun them. All services and preaching being abruptly stopped for 2 years was the best thing that could have happened.

[jenna]

Makes my day. The trend is in the right direction. Human consciousness is rising out of the feudal hierarchical zero-sum paradigm.

[christopherknight]

I recently read a book by Phil Zuckerman named, "Society without God". Phil is a professor of sociology. He moved his family to Denmark and Sweden for over a year and conducted a large number of formal interviews with people from these largely secular countries to better understand the reasons why most are agnostic or atheist. Per Wikipedia - Phil Zuckerman's 2008 book Society without God notes that Denmark and Sweden, "probably the least religious countries in the world, and possibly in the history of the world", enjoy "among the lowest violent crime rates in the world [and] the lowest levels of corruption in the world". These countries also score highly in the United Nations Happiness Report which is published every year. Very interesting...

[danieltempas]

It happened to me as well. For 40 years I was a devout christian. Then I read some atheist stuff and began to think for myself. It is so embarrassing that I was taken in by that crap.

[HassanRadwan]

As an ex-Muslim the transition period is even worse. Thank you for this video.

[stimlord]

I won’t lie, I squealed in delight when one of my other favorite creators (Prophet of Zod) in this space shouted your channel out. Here’s to your continual growth and your channel’s exposure to new viewers who need content like yours!

[MarcWhitaker]

Until WW2, most Americans were born, lived, and died in the same geographic area surrounded by the same people raised in the same churches. Since then, more and more people travel, move, meet new people in new places with new and different beliefs. Children don’t grow up where their parents grew up, they grow up making friends among other kids with different beliefs.

When your early friends are Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, atheist, you have a hard time they are all going to hell because they don’t go to your church.

[matthewgordon]

The phasing out of religion and other superstitious modes of thought is an advancement for humanity. You are right that we have to have things in society to serve the positive functions of organized religion. We have to make rational decisions about how our societies are going to change and progress. It seems that people have always just let things change organically, without thought. We have to actively pick our future if we want it to be a good one.

[alflyle]

Another reason for the Evangelicals to be concerned with the declining statistics is the well-established tendency of survey respondents to give answers that are "religiously correct". I.e., they stretch the truth about their level of belief and religious activity due to an internal fear that somehow their pastor can see their answers.

[MrSnapperDog]

The thing that opened my eyes was reading the Bible. I don’t know is how people can read the Bible and not be atheist.

[coreyfaller]

Hi! I am sent by recommendation of Prophet of Zod. I look forward to getting caught up on your videos. I was never a "true believer" (born atheist, I guess!) so I can only empathize with those that are in the process of leaving religion. I am an ally though, so I am always willing to offer a leg up in the journey out.
I appreciate the breakdown by the numbers in this video. It is heartening to see that people are starting to realize that to be a good and valuable contributor to our society does not require an oath to an imperceivable being. And it feels good! Peace!

[MrCanis]

A small group of people, living is a desert about 2000 years ago, who didn't even know where thunder and lightning came from, are going to tell me how to live my live. I pass for that.

[ravonderelle]

I've been deconstructing and reconstructing my belief system for about 2 years now and it can be tough, but also liberating. I have a hard time relinquishing the title of Christian, although I don't believe things the same way most Christians do. I now see God as the universe and our potentiality and I believe heavily in Spirituality/consciousness and connection. You popped up on my algorithm a few days ago and I actually agree with a lot that you say. Thanks for helping people see how we've been duped. I think there's actually a mass shift happening and people are waking up because of people like you.

[MalachiMarvin]

6:54, it's been many years since I deconstructed (I don't recall it being called that back then), but this is what started me down that path. My church and the people in my church believed we had the one true belief and that many other people, including many other Christians, were not actually saved. That troubled me because many of these other people seemed sincere believers to me. So, how could I know who was right?

Eventually, and it was not right away, I came to realize that this so called tri-omni god would not set up a system like this. After that, it all began to fall apart.

[rockrug]

The faster humanity gives up these myths, the healthier our world will be. These trends are encouraging.

[Tanner]

A bit late to this video but weirdly enough I'm very lucky that the pandemic happened early in my teenage years or I doubt I ever would've questioned my beliefs and converted. I was still a devout Christian towards the end of the pandemic but that's when I actually started having doubts and looking into apologetics, took me three years to deconvert but eventually I got there!

[calebjosh]

This just goes to show that once you break free from that echo chamber, you start to think.
That is why it is so important to culture yourself.
Expose yourself to other viewpoints and hang out with people from all walks of life. Live, learn and love.

[lovecatxx]

Hey! I got here via Prophet of Zod and I'm enjoying the videos I've watched so far!

I've pretty much always been atheist (I briefly had faith in the 90s because nursery taught Christianity as standard facts and I was a toddler so just accepted it. As of 1997 I have been atheist because at 5 I lost my faith because 'no dinosaurs in the Bible'. I've developed better reasoning since then) because my parents were both atheists and didn't nudge me in any specific direction spiratually, they just let me figure that stuff out for myself. I got cool points in school for not bejng baptised :P School was also religious because for some reason, when I was at school, all schools were faith schools (despite Scotland being majority non-religious) it was just that you had Catholic or "non-denominational", which could mean anything within Protestantism. My primary school leaned heavily into evangelical shite as a non-denom and it was extremely irritating.

Anyway, due to being athiest for forever, I find it fascinating to learn about people's journeys out of religion. It's super interesting because obvs they have a totally different angle and context from myself when it come to religion.

Anyway, sorry for the essay :P You've deffs gained a sub.