Churches are used to control and maintain the patriarchal society and their own power, they don't serve the general good. Now, some churches do, I used to work out arrangements when churches wanted to pay for one of their members medical care. I've had friends who lost their house and everything in it and the local churches really came together and helped them, although that was over 20 years ago. Would the jewish Synagogue do that for Catholics these days, don't know?

What to me is emblematic of today's fake christians is Joel Osteen, who lied in order to avoid helping the people in Houston when they were in dire straits. He cared more about having a pristine church than saving people's lives, he is no Christian whatsoever, but one of the drumpf fakes & takers.

If you want to know where the US will be on social change in 10-20 years, look at where Europe is now.

And much misogyny, and Islamophobia, and other "progressive" outbreaks.

Now imagine the result here if the same thing happened.

... those practicing misogyny, anti-LGBT and Islamophobia, and see how it correlates in the US.

Let's see, Republicans (check), conservatives (check), libertarians (or in other words proto-anarchists who, falsely, believe their property rights will be preserved in their de-regulated utopia) (check) and...oh yes, that's right: fervent believers in poorly preserved and translated bronze age mythologies. Funny how that works.
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Or is this a diversion?

While many still identify which a religion, the role of organized religion is reduced to only a ceremonial one. So people still get married and buried in churches, but nobody is buying the mythology.

Thanks for posting.

Meanwhile, in the United States...

When we lived there back in the '90s.