For the first time, there are now more unbelievers who do not subscribe to faith as there are Catholics and Christians in America. But that should not come as a surprise to anyone who has been seeing the clear cut signs emerging over the past several decades. Ignore all of the fancy church sayings about revival, the religious conferences being convened, and the pop fuzzy psychology that masquerades found in many pulpits across the U.S., the reality is becoming clear, we are living in a POST-Christian nation.
The study found that 23.1% of people in America today have absolutely no religious identity. This tops the number of Roman Catholics (23%), as well as traditional Christian (22.5%). Simply put, there is a shift happening in our nation that is driving people away from faith and into secularism. But why?
The word declares that in the last days, men will love their sin more than they will love God. They will not follow Christ, and what's worse, they will eventually show a genuine hatred for anything of God. We can see this in Europe, where Christianity was once a underlying foundation throughout the region, it (Christianity) has all but become an historic relic that few find the time for anymore. All of this is guiding us into a period of great darkness that is rising in our world.
If America was a Christian nation in the past (debatable), it has proven that it is no longer. Sooner or later the church must realize the time frame they are in, recognize the hour in which we live, and set its course on proclaiming the gospel to all who will listen. For at some point that statistical number will begin to rise even further, and eventually a new sentiment will give rise to a new idea, an wicked idea, and that is to worship another identity, and that my friend should cause us all to realize our time here is short.
[Christopher Gregory]
2 Timothy 3:1-5 … This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.❤
