How difficult is it, really, to be part of the majority religious group of the US?

Answer 1

Every day I read more about the persecuted Christians than about the 30,000 kids that die daily of starvation and Aids.

So, I guess it must be really, really, really hard to be a Christian.

Answer 2

It is quite difficult but most of us do not realize this or the reasons for it. When a given religion such as Christianity is the majority group in a region many of its participants are merely people who are following their own herd instinct. Consequently the religious group (in this case Christianity) becomes populated with many half-hearted adherents who would distance themselves from the group under different circumstances. This social phenomenon leads to increased levels of lukewarmness, self-centerdness, and moral compromise. What further complicates things is that when we look around to compare ourselves with other Christians we conclude that we are not so bad after all! I would say then that although we suffer less persecution, it is more difficult to be a sincere and zealous disciple of Christ.

Answer 3

I am not afraid of the fact that it is going to be hard, because the change is never easy. However, as a Christian woman, I am not following any major group other than followers of Jesus. I do not like religions.

But whatever people choose, I invite people not to be only church consumers. Make your church stronger by your contribution, with your money, your time, your love for others, and heart to serve. And if you do not like your church, Find another one. Or start your own. We have different styles of worship, different ways of serving God, choosing music, dressing up at the church, different activities...The main thing is that the worship is for God. : )

Answer 4

I am not sure that born again believers in Jesus Christ are the majority. Only those who call themselves Christian are in the majority. The Christians that are not born again are the majority.

Christianity boasts they are 85% of those in the U.S.
However born again believers are less than half that amount.

I have a Christian sister that does not believe the Bible was inspired by God. Says she never has. Not even when we lived at home with our parents, but she still goes to church.

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Answer 5

I live in a Christian nation that worships the Prince of Peace. Jesus teaches that we should love one another as we love ourselves. Jesus teaches that the forgiveness is the way to ever lasting life. Jesus teaches the Golden Rule, but I live in the United States, that has killed over a million other people in the world in two regional wars and many other smaller wars in less than 50 years.
Both the Vietnam War and the Iraq War are mistakes, unjust wars which makes the US guilty of crimes against humanity. America's intentions were pure, but our deeds were wrong according to our own majority Religion.
I now fear for the future of my Nation and it's people, and wish, pray and hope that America begins taking it's own spirituality seriously and begin to treat others as we would like them to treat us.
Defense is one thing, but preemptive War is just plain wrong, immoral, unethical and stupid.

Answer 6

As long as you "say" you have some kind of faith in something-then you are part of the largest church group in the US. You could "call" yourself Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, non-Denominational, Pentecostal/Charismatic, Unitarians, Mormon, JW, Scientology, Episcopal, or just plain religious. The vast majority of Americans who claim to be religious may actually be, but they are not Christians.

Answer 7

Not hard at all. I know a lot of people who say they are Christian but don't go to church and don't live by Jesus' teachings. It's like they're just in it for convenience's sake.

While a lot of other religious groups get picked on, singled out, discriminated against... being a Christian is just more easy.

Answer 8

It would be very easy. Just free your mind of any and all rational thought, become extremely gullible and open to suggestion, and surrender the option of being taken seriously in a conversation with anyone that has an IQ over 65.

Answer 9

I find it impossible. If I were to be part of the majority religion in the US, I would have to be a Christian. Considering that I do not believe in a God to begin with, how could I believe in Jesus? I cannot supend my rationality or logic.

Answer 10

You tell me. I'm a Catholic Christian, which means I get it from the atheists and the fundamentalists. Believe me... growing up in the south wasn't that easy, especially with two major televangelists in the same state... Fallwell and Robertson.