[lbo-talk] Evangelicals at a crossroads as Dobson resigns

[the shakudion]

Most of the mega churches are led by chaismatic leaders who when they retire their chruches rapidly decline. One of the reasons is that they get their members from raiding other churches instead of converting new ones (people are attracted to the leaders and not to the church). The Southern Baptists have failed to meet their new member quotas for several years now. I dont think we need to fear those who are into the Quiverful nonsense. They will have large families and most of the kids will rebel. Its a truism to say the wildest kids are the preachers kids. 

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--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Sheldon Baker <humanist.observer at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Sheldon Baker <humanist.observer at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Evangelicals at a crossroads as Dobson resigns
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 7:12 PM

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 7, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote:
\> According to the stats in the article, their problems go back several
years.
> Why is it hard to believe their sort of crap is a dying breed? It's
clearly
> an aging demographic, with dwindling influence on national politics.
> Doug

Is this really the case?  I keep thinking of these clips of young
evangelicals at mega-church rock-n-roll services and think they are
reproducing themselves quite nicely.  But maybe they are mostly just
religious, instead of religious right?
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