Christian Chicken Little-ism

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The American Conservative: Christian Chicken Little-ism

By Rod Dreher • July 31, 2013, 12:19 PM

 

Jake Meador has no patience with Evangelicals of his generation

 

(Millennials) who are hung up on the idea that “the church must change, or die!”.

Excerpt:

 

We’ve been killed by our brothers and sisters in Christ, we’ve fought wars, we’ve been sent off to concentration camps and gulags. There have been many times in our history where the greatest hindrance to joining the church was that getting baptized could lead to imprisonment, torture, or even death. And through all that, the church has endured. But in the minds of certain Christian bloggers, privileged white millennials and their nebulously defined intuitions and impulses pose a greater threat to the long-term flourishing of the church than the Colosseum

 

According to the Episcopal Church’s own data, at the current rate of decline, there will be no Episcopalians in the United States by 2040.

 

Similarly, while there is no reason to doubt that there will be a Roman Catholic church in the United States for ages of ages to come, it cannot be a matter of indifference to American Catholics and American Catholic leaders that their Church is hemorrhaging members.