Apostle Paul found Jesus in his 30s. Jesus knew who God was at birth and began his ministry at 30. I like Apostle Paul's story because he was a murderer. In our culture, he'd be a gang member but when he heard the call of Christ, he turned his life around

This all depends on what issues you're questioning. Start there and if your views are stacking up with the book then yes, these concepts need to be updated.

There's nothing new under the sun. What we're dealing with is what Noah dealt with.. As in the Day's of Noah b

people are finally starting to wise up to the fact that god doesn’t exist

Hard to say, personally I know a lot of people with religious parents that have moved away from it.

But I also don’t live in a really religious area

A lot of Christians I know who still go to church are queer. Theres a growing movement of queer people taking back the narrative of Christianity and teaching the Bible in a lot more educated ways. Still, those people are younger and going to church every early Sunday morning aint really it.

I think Mega churches are too rich to fail and will continue sharing their hate and conservative blueprint to people who feel like they need it. Smaller churches are all probably on their way out and will more likely be replaced by Bible study groups.

Churches that simultaneously act as community resource centers that serve low-income neighborhoods will most likely continue if they're really doing good work.

I doubt it

Try to broaden your horizon

The church and the abuse of religion at a political level =/= the practice of religion

It should but I doubt it.

it will literally never die in the south

not at all, i've learned over the years its really easy (and lucrative) to brainwash people "all in the name of god"

yeah and they will start building astrology churches instead

Not at all.

christianity as we know it will die out, it’s too rigid and authoritarian to accommodate a generation focused on identity, even people who call themselves christian around the gen z - late millennial age aren’t really hard practicing. it has to evolve or it’s dying, maybe not in immigrant communities but it’s done everywhere else

“Churches do good for low-income places”

And also rape their kids right

I doubt it. They do a good job at converting people when they are at their lowest. And being that depressed happens happens to everyone at some point.

Some pastors/priests have definitely done that. Some atheists have done that. Some Buddhists, etc. I don’t think that specific evil is exclusive to anyone, but I do think certain groups are so committed to maintaining the status quo that they’re more likely to find ways to ignore it/excuse it.

And outside of that, some churches act as a community resource center in low-income communities.

All of these things can be true at once. And I’m not really trying to debate you on that or change your mind since I don’t personally think it matters what you believe as long as you’re a good person, and if the history of one specific denomination (the Catholic Church. I don’t think this issue is prevalent in many other Christian denominations) is enough to make Christianity not your thing, I think that’s perfectly okay.

But I think that’s the thing tho - you don’t have to be hard practicing to be Christian. The more rigid denominations with a somewhat literal interpretation of the Bible will try to make people believe that, but it’s not sustainable and doesn’t work.

I think people who simply believe in God and Jesus will (and have been) find a way to practice their spirituality in a way that isn’t going to a building full of strangers 1 day a week

that's a good way to look at it, i grew up christian but i'm not really attracted to religion but yet i see believe in (a) god and stuff beyond me. trying to figure out how i can make spirituality work in current lifestyle

This clip is forever funny

There’s a Christian rapper named Lecrae who recently posted something on Twitter about coming to terms with the fact that church has never done it for him, and people freaked out and thought he was teaching people to walk away from God.

I think younger spiritual people are realizing that a lot of religious folks think Church IS god/faith/spirituality but really it’s just purposeless tradition and that way of thinking is on its way out. Church can literally be as simple as 2 niggas talking in the same room about how to be better people.