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If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right. - Ross Douthat

@Dawson45500317 @mattyglesias Right, because obvious desperation is what keeps the women flocking to you

@mattyglesias Exactly, I imagine most 20 something women would happily get married if the guys they were dating desperately wanted to marry them

There’s this odd construct on the right where they talk as if educated young women are bombarded by marriage proposals they are turning down to go girlboss when I think we all know this isn’t how things work. slowboring.com/p/yelling-at-a…

@GPCody60 @GigaBasedDad It is pretty simple. Here's a bit more simplicity for you - what happens when most people in our society continue to have children at far below the replacement rate, or none at all? Is the answer simple, or complicated?

@GigaBasedDad Blame the poor for being poor. You righties love to simplify everything because the real truth destroys your political and moral stance, and your claim to be Christian.

What's your excuse?

@KeenanPeachy So what was 2020, 2021, and 2022?

🚨143% INCREASE IN CATHOLIC CONVERTS IN LA FROM 2023 to 2026 Here's how many people came into the Church in Los Angeles: 2023: 3,462 2026: 8,598 Stunning.

@AaronBMacLean So you think that Trump, for instance, would have a problem with this?

The global right-populist bloc not one big happy family...

@matthewschmitz Amazing that an outlet which basically never admits that there is such a thing as "identity politics" only trots that concept out when they want to accuse the Right of doing it.

Christian identity politics is not a sign of revival, but a symptom of religious decline. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

@SepsSteve @nienna121 Why does any church need to forbid something that God clearly forbids in scripture?

@nienna121 The Catholic Church forbids any sex before marriage between a man and a woman. Your church does not.

The idea that Protestants object to Catholicism because of premarital sex is laughable. The data shows that Protestants oppose premarital sex far more than Catholics do.

@TerriGreenUSA Did they think that tho?

Why I’m No Longer a Fan of the Babylon Bee. — Justin Peters This is the best explanation about the failure of the guys from the bee who thought Elon received Christ during their interview with him.

@spes_man @deaninserra So catholics may be right that they are seeing more ex-protestants show up in their churches. *And*, the long term trend of more catholics transitioning to protestantism continues, more so than the reverse.

@spes_man @deaninserra Yes - I think it is possible that both are true. Disaffected cradle catholics who probably aren't all that involved in catholicism may continue to shift to being protestant. And, perhaps a greater percentage of protestants, low as it is, are switching to catholicism.

This has been the most overblown thing EVER. Glad there is data. There isn’t a mass exodus from prostestant to catholic. There is barely a trickle. The other direction movement is larger.

@TheJesusCalling @RockWallBibles Yet scripture tells us to gather together for regular worship. So yeah - obedience does have a bearing on whether you're a good Christian.

@RockWallBibles Church attendance has no bearing on if you’re a good Christian or saved. Many people who religiously attend Church often have a superficial/weak relationship with God while many people who attend church infrequently have a close relationship with God. It’s not about “attendance.”

Here is your white pill for the day: Church attendance is on the rise after a couple decade long decline that bottomed out around COVID. Gen Z and Millenial Men are now leading the way.

@gonefishin1948 @dragodimitrov More Protestants oppose abortion than Catholics, in the US at least. And most Protestants have no clue what the Roman church's teaching on IVF, contraception, or divorce are.

@dragodimitrov That and abortion and their ability to divorce and remarry.

I think attachment to contraception is the #1 thing holding Protestants back from becoming Catholic.

@taradaktyll @ShaneSchaetzel Hm - paywall

@edclements @ShaneSchaetzel Hi - have a blessed day. dailywire.com/news/the-catho…

I'm not the only one noticing this. As I said, Zionism is splitting America's Christian alliance right down the middle, along the old Catholic-Protestant divide, with some Protestants getting downright anti-Catholic. and nasty. A whole lot of work was done to bring Catholics into the Republican Party, and now it threatens to all be undone. Over what? Zionism: the idea that we should put Jews in the Holy Land, expand its borders, rebuild the Jewish Temple, and fight wars in the Middle East to hasten the "Rapture." It's a fringe eschatology that went mainstream in the 1990s-2000s, and now threatens not only America's political future, but the stability of the Middle East as well.

@taradaktyll @ShaneSchaetzel Yeah - there's no data whatsoever to support this. This is just trad-cath cope.

@ShaneSchaetzel Meh, politics has always been anti-Catholic. For the first time in… centuries maybe, we’ve got the youths! God is good and has already won. Bless the sad little men that resent the Church’s calls for peace.

@Robkearney1981 It's obviously fake data tho. So this presents no evidence one way or the other. There seem to be Catholics that feel a vibe of resurgence, but there isn't much of any empirical data to support it.

If true, perhaps this vindicates what Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about way back in the 1830s. De Tocqueville foresaw a future time in America where Protestantism (existing as an intermediate form between pure reason and full authority) would struggle to endure long-term under our democratic conditions. Due to this, people would increasingly gravitate either toward complete unbelief or toward Catholicism due to the Church's existence as a singular, authoritative structure that could give answers to people and help organize society in order for it to remain functioning. Perhaps the 21st century may see his vision fulfilled.

@jblackpost @calvinrobinson @Melissa_WongMT It goes beyond that tho - all of those denominations (Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc) hold doctrinal positions that go against a Christian Zionist position. It's just that, like Catholics, they don't do a very good job of teaching their own doctrine.

What's hilarious about that article is that no Protestant denomination requires you to be a Zionist either. Not Anglicans or Presbyterians or Lutherans, etc. Zionism is a weird 20th century Evangelical offshoot mostly embraced by Pentecostals and non-denominationals and Southern Baptist, who aren't even technically Protestant.

Daily Wire finds a troubling pattern in Catholicism. The problem is, Catholics cannot be manipulated in the same way as evangelicals. Catholics are not Zionists. It is in Israel’s interests to have Christians believe they must be “committed Zionists to receive God’s blessing.”

@marvard17 @ryanburge They are streams of American protestantism that developed over time due to various social and political reasons. Like the reason there are American Baptists and Southern Baptists. And various Catholic orders. I'm not saying that it's good, but its interesting to study.

@edclements @ryanburge Not at all. As you well know those are different religious orders who are all in communion with one another, not separate denominations. The only reason to separate black Protestants from white Protestants in charts like these is because the former is more socially liberal.

"It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family" 35% of evangelical women agree with that statement - the highest of any tradition. It's 25% of Black Protestant women 22% of Catholic women.

@theisabelb Why do you feel the need to post fake data? It's a sign of weakness/insecurity.

Cross the Tiber, the water’s fine 😎

@TheExtremeMusi1 Chris Farley looks like he spent 4 hours washing crystal meth down with tequila

31 years ago today, on March 25, 1995, The Tragically Hip took the stage on SNL. The rest is history…

@Coste1Costello @ryanburge Without religion, your morality is just an arbitrary preference

When Gen X was 18-29 years old: 18% identified as non-religious. When Millennials were 18-29 years old: 34% identified as non-religious. Among Gen Z currently: 41% identify as non-religious.

@marvard17 @ryanburge Nobody said anything about theology. But if its strange to have 3 streams of protestantism, then it must also be strange to have Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, and Jesuits.

@edclements @ryanburge Very strange to have your theology determined by race