A looming ‘tsunami’ of church closings is poised to remake America | CNN
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Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade. This dire forecast is outlined in a new PBS documentary series, “Christianity at a Crossroads.”

Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade.

Many churches will be unable to escape this “tsunami” of closings — a grim trajectory one pastor described as, “Every year the pews are getting emptier and the collection plates getting lighter.”

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    100,000 churches could close and 100,000 mosques and synagogues could open, and MAGA would still insist the US is a Christian Nation.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      They skipped right over the First Amendment of course and got so excited by the Second that they basically stopped thinking.

      Xtianity is dwindling in the U.S. But even if 100% of the country was xtian it would not change the fact that we were founded as a secular nation.