In the world of US Christianity you see the strongest growth among fundamentalist sects. Of course the catholic church still dominates in both number and growth, but the next in line are the Southern Baptist convention and Pentacostal sects. The mainstream protestant churches that exploded during the first and second great awakenings are now either losing members or just barely holding their own. In fact, the Southern Baptist convention with 16 million members is larger than the membership of the large mainstream protistant churches combined. I'm not interested in which church people think is better, or the best version of christianity. What I'm interested in is why on one hand would people want more choices in their secular lives (they want a choice of job, places to live, educational opportunity, consumer products, etc), but want a religeon that has very strict rules to live by?
2006-07-10
08:16:58
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