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daniel September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Are American Liberals No Longer Christian?, Benedict Option, Post Christianity, Post-Christian, Post-Christian Political Party, Rod Dreher, Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option, The Democrats admit they are a Post-Christian Political Party, The Democrats are now a Post Christian Political Party, The Democrats are Officially Secular, Will Christians Withdraw from America?

The Democrats admit they are a Post-Christian Political Party

“WHEREAS, the religiously unaffiliated demographic represents the largest religious group within the Democratic Party, growing from 19% in 2007 to one in three today; and”

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daniel September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 • African Americans are losing their religion almost fast as whites are, • Women are losing their faith faster than men are, 46% of American adults were willing to admit to having no religion, 54% of Americans described themselves as “religious”, America is Going Post-Christian faster than you think, America’s march to post-Christianity, believers will be persecuted, Did America’s Faith die and Nobody Notice?, Did America’s Faith die and Nobody Noticed?, great American unchurching, moral rot in the church, no religion, Pew Survey, Pew’s results indicate that America is becoming “post-Christian” at a faster rate than most people realize, Post-Christian, Public Religion Research Institute, religious but not spiritual, Rod Dreher, spiritual but not religious, The Great Unchurching

Number of Religious Americans fell by 8% in five years

Pew discovered that 46% of American adults were willing to admit to having no religion in a poll held earlier this year, a Pew press release indicates. That marked an 11% increase from 2012, when just 35% of Americans were willing to admit to having “no religion.”

My Thoughts

daniel April 2, 2017 Dark Mountain Project, debt peonage, eccentric off-gridders, Low-Tech Utopia, Low-Tech Utopia or Primitive Nightmare, Luddite utopianism, Mark Sundeen, Matthew Secich, Paul Kingsworth, Possibility Alliance, Robert VerBruggen, Rod Dreher, the Amish, The low-tech utopia, The Ugly Side of the 19th Century, The Unsettlers, Why the Low-Tech Utopia will not Work

The Dark Side of Low Technology Utopias

The worst aspect of low tech utopianism is that like most idealists, its practitioners ignore human nature. Like the Communists and Libertarians the low-techers accept the delusion that human weakness can be overcome by simple idealism.

Set in a low-tech 19th Century environment most Americans would behave like Jefferson Davis; the slaving-owning Confederate President, not Thoreau. After all life on the veranda; sipping a mint julip, is far more comfortable than life in the fields.

Grocery Wars Politics

daniel June 5, 2016June 5, 2016 AFA, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), American Family Association, Culture War, declining retailer, I pledge to boycott Target stores, Is the Reagan Coalition Dead?, Libertarian Party, Organized Civil Disobedience against Corporate America, revenue fell by $920 million, Rod Dreher, Target (NYSE: TGT), Target Boycott, Target boycott represents a paradigm shift

Target finds itself caught in the Crossfire of the Culture War

Even if it fails; this Target boycott represents a paradigm shift in the relationship between Christians and corporate America. One has to wonder if this shift will lead to violent conflict of the kind seen during the labor movement of the early 20th Century, or new political coalitions. Either way it represents a profound change in our culture; that goes far beyond the bathrooms at a discount store.

Politics

daniel July 26, 2015March 6, 2016 Benedict Option, Disruptive Technology, Income Inequality, Kroger, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, Rod Dreher, What are the Benedict Options?, What Benedict Options are there?, Why are Christians considering the Benedict Option

A Few Benedict Options

So what are the Benedict Options, and how could they work? To answer that question, I took a look at various religious countercultures in history and in modern America that could serve as a template for the Option. This could show us what such a counterculture might look like and how it might impact our society.