Summary
Churches across the U.S. are grappling with dwindling attendance and financial instability, forcing many to close or sell properties.
The Diocese of Buffalo has shut down 100 parishes since the 2000s and plans to close 70 more. Nationwide, church membership has dropped from 80% in the 1940s to 45% today.
Some churches repurpose their land to survive, like Atlanta’s First United Methodist Church, which is building affordable housing.
Others, like Calcium Church in New York, make cutbacks to stay open. Leaders warn of the long-term risks of declining community and support for churches.
Psh. Until trump’s project’25 handlers make church attendance mandatory for citizenship.
Prayer day in kenshi IRL
Churches that shut down don’t get burned down.
Didn’t realise I wandered into /r/atheism in this comment section.
Too bad its not baptist.
Mega churches are still going strong though. There definitely needs to be a way (other than taxes because separation of church and state is impt) to get churches to spend that money back in the community, but instead it just ends up enriching the owners and investors. If there was anything which needed an anti-corruption intervention.
Good riddance.
The church is nothing but a tool of opposition. Glad to see it have less influence.
And some are forced to sell off the massive amount of prime real estate they were totally going to build churches on and not pay any taxes on the profits…
FINALLY! You guys start to get secular state!
We still have to deal with Putin’s “200 churches” bullshit.
I pray to God everyday that i can live long enough to witness the day humanity completely abandons religion. Inshallah🙏
Heaven isn’t real
We have the means to make our own right here, right now but some of us are too greedy to make it happen.
More importantly, in heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here.
Neither god
Good.
Oh no! So, anyway…
fucking good.
Should have been burned down, but nothing will ever right the wrongs religion inflicted against the human species.
