Reasons for Leaving Christianity

[countryboy]

Are you going to tell us why you left? Did someone die?

What makes you think she was ever a Christian?

[Tahuyaman]

There are plenty of Protestant denominations which are LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ+ friendly. So, right off the bat, that sounds like a bull$#@! excuse. Which indicates to me, that this is very likely, a bull$#@! article.

There's an agenda being pushed that traditional Christian based morality is considered hateful. Of course to push that agenda one must misrepresent the principles of Christianity.

[Tahuyaman]

A true Christian is very unlikely to turn their back on Christianity. More than likely they would change the way the practice their faith.

[countryboy]

There's an agenda being pushed that traditional Christian based morality is considered hateful. Of course to push that agenda one must misrepresent the principles of Christianity.

If the article in the OP were honest, the number one reason For leaving Christianity would be, "God won't change his nature to accommodate my sinful lifestyle".

[carolina73]

What makes you think she was ever a Christian?

Because she hates Christianity so much. I'll bet their was an event that turned her to be this angry.

[blackjack21]

We often hear from more conservative Christians that membership is falling in some of the more mainstream church bodies because they are acquiescing to societal demands from the LGBTQ community, and people supposedly believe that Biblical condemnation of same-sex relationships is being ignored. If that is, in fact, going on, where do you see that response falling in terms of the chart? "Scriptural Issues"? "Exposure to Difference"?

Well, I think you could say that Exposure to Difference, Faith Leadership, Politics, Women's Rights, and Scriptual Issues all fall under that rubric. The Bible clearly condemns homosexuality among men. It's beyond question. The Judeo-Christian tradition also has male-led clerics, rather than females, or co-ed clergy. So between feminists wanting female clerics and homosexuals demanding that they be treated the same when the Bible clearly condemns homosexuality, efforts among the more liberal Protestant demoninations have led to a collapse in their membership.

I think there is also the issue of moral judgement of other social behaviors, like drinking and drugs. Strictly abstemious churches loose some members that way, while it seems the mega churches have picked up a lot of membership of people recovering from drugs and alcohol who didn't feel so welcome in say a Baptist church or a Methodist church.

There are plenty of Protestant denominations which are LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ+ friendly. So, right off the bat, that sounds like a bull$#@! excuse. Which indicates to me, that this is very likely, a bull$#@! article.

Possibly, but the churches with female preachers that tolerate homosexuality aren't able to give the LGBTQ types what they want: acceptance of their behavior/lifestyle as equal to that of traditional families, principally because those churches empty out of people who adhere to scripture and are thus filled pretty much only with movement liberals and the LQGBTQ types. I find it interesting how many more people get their morality not from their religion, but from the Democrat party and the mainstream media. Groupthink and a need to belong to a group is very powerful in such people.

The liberal side is more of a social club these days.

I think that has always been somewhat the case, particularly in rural areas where socializing with the congregation is a huge part of the draw for people who are otherwise isolated by distance. Other draws to churches in the past were music and art, which have far more in the way of secular outlet. Before radios, record players, etc., people mostly heard music in church.

[zelmo1234]

I think that there are a lot of reasons, one being the stigma that liberal society try's to put on religion.

I think that there are many that don't like what the scriptures have to say as they tend to show us that we are not living correctly.

And then you have the country club church's that have gone away from scripture.

I find the Church's that are active in the community and do the things that Christ Told them to do tend to have growing congregations.

But the decline of the church and the depravation of society is biblical

[Chris]

What are they replacing it with? Paganism?

Faith in the State.

[Tahuyaman]

Faith in the State.

That can qualify as paganism.

[LescoBrandon]

2 Timothy 3:1-8

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

So people are leaving Christianity because it doesn't condone LQBQT, perving kids, and all that garbage? It is what it is. So be it.