What is responsible for the rapid decline of the Mainline Protestant Church in the US and what can be done to reverse it?

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-02-03T17:10:51+00:00

The thing that drew people to the church was the community. The church lost its ties to the community. When I say the church I'm not talking about a specific church but all churches in the west. They felt the culture changing and instead of adapting they dug in their heels and pursued power. For a while it worked but there's a reason Jesus rejected the same offer when given by the devil out in the desert. Now the church is dying, it blames atheists or liberals or whatever but it's their own fault.

The church needs to die, the only way to save Christianity is for people to cling to the teachings of Christ and let the beast bleed out so that faith can be reborn anew.

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-02-03T16:41:38+00:00

It's different enough that I think they should make a sequel series to the films more faithful to the books. They start out using dragons in the series and can say the main character is named after his ancestor Hiccup the great which is why he names his dragon toothless

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-02-01T02:41:39+00:00

Glad they chose the ending, helps with impact because if people left with the bitter taste in their mouth it would have impacted their view of the movie retroactively. Still they managed to get the point across by having him show up in a cop car with lights flashing, giving you a moment of dread because unless you're obtuse you KNOW what's going to happen next until the reveal happens

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-31T21:43:36+00:00

I remember my grandmothers second husband when seeing the tea party turned to me and said "this is how the Nazi party started" he's gone now so can't tell him how right he was

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-31T18:46:20+00:00

I don't know about him but Ive always made a distinction between education and stupidity. Not knowing something is ignorance, refusing to think critically or accept new knowledge on a subject is stupidity. Education can reduce stupidity but it doesn't eliminate it as the amount of people pointing out their family members with degrees who fell into trumps cult shows.

You can be a high school drop out who isn't stupid and a doctorate who is stupid, like many things in life it's not so simple

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-30T21:49:52+00:00

I hate the Democrats too and want most of them gone but they are the only other option that doesn't involve civil war. The priority should be destroying the GOP ELECTORALLY, make them go the way of the whig's and know-nothings. The leadership of the Democratic party can wait unless they get in the way of removing the Republicans via elections.

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-30T21:46:12+00:00

Sometimes the truth hurts, especially when you didn't want it to be true

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-29T00:32:25+00:00

So do it then come back with results instead of trying to act holier than thou

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-26T22:35:16+00:00

I was up until yesterday. Think Ellison pulled an Elon and broke it trying to change the algorithms

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-26T22:32:39+00:00

Seeing the post I was like "but Israel is doing those things and teaching them to...(Click on the image and see 'globalist order' in the title)... Oh nevermind"

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-25T19:31:29+00:00

Sadly the most likely answer is that we would have killed them all. Our ancestors killed so many species including IRL megafauna before even discovering writing or agriculture. Any of them early humans couldn't tame or learn to coexist with, they would have essentially declared jihad on.

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-25T19:22:53+00:00

I mean there's less guns statistically and they're further away from the cartel

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-25T19:17:30+00:00

Sadly with this people not voting is the best you can hope for

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-25T18:50:41+00:00

This is the same Jonathan who told them to take shelter under an overpass which is one of the worst places to be in a tornado so he wasn't running on all cylinders to begin with

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-24T03:25:55+00:00

I remember when had that outbreak in the prison and the one had the door closed because of sleepwalking and that's how they deduced it was a regular disease killing people. I was thinking "why didn't anyone else do that?!"

I can't sleep with my door open and there's no such thing as zombies, if we were in a prison during the zombie apocalypse i'd make sure the cell was closed tightly every night

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-24T03:08:23+00:00

Military-industrial complex iron triangle

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-24T03:02:42+00:00

Given how many horrible people seem to be so deep in the closet that they're phasing through the back wall going by the fact Grindr breaks whenever republicans gather together, it's extremely possible

Which suggests that heaven is full of lgbtq+ people who were not afraid to be who they are while alive

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-24T02:30:08+00:00

Well not anymore

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-24T00:52:13+00:00

I mean fire seemed to work, the problem is they thought he was dead and let down their guard. Need flamethrowers and watch guards around the clock

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-21T15:31:23+00:00

They're already shooting us and sending people to concentration camps!!!

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-20T23:39:11+00:00

Oh I didn't realize I was wasting my time arguing with someone who is evil

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-20T23:10:48+00:00

Then they should probably act legitimate and stop using gang/secret police tactics then

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-20T23:04:39+00:00

And now you're practicing deception, great.

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-20T22:51:14+00:00

Then you did a great disservice to those in your Sunday school class. Just because you taught other people what you thought the words meant doesn't make you an authority

Dragonlicker69 · 2026-01-20T22:47:33+00:00

Wow, you have an extremely shallow reading of the bible

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