Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christians a dying breed? Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 22:27:52 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jloucks@uts.amdahl.com (Jim Loucks) writes: >An atheist once told me that as a Christian, I was a dying breed. This >seems to be the general belief in a lot of newsgroups. The Center for >World Missions reports a different story. > [What follows was an accounting of the phenomenal growth of Christianity > in the non-Western world] To this I would add that even the popular press, ie Newsweek, is starting to grudgingly admit that Christianity is by no means "dead" in the United States. Last December, in a cover article, Newsweek pointed to a finding that even among the baby-boomer generation, regarded as perhaps the most cynical/worldly generations of our history, 2/3 of it is now going to church, and that 1/3 had never left to begin with. The article put all the possible spins on it that it could ("the baby boomer generation, while recognizing "societal sins", still rejects "personal sin"", etc etc ...) But the spins were *so* visible, that they betrayed what they were trying to hide. Life which rejects Christ lives in denial. "You will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free." -- Christ dennis kriz@skat.usc.edu