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Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?
Posted from theatlantic.com
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Posted >1 y ago
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From the article- "But in the early 1990s, the historical tether between American identity and faith snapped. Religious non-affiliation in the U.S. started to rise—and rise, and rise. By the early 2000s, the share of Americans who said they didn’t associate with any established religion (also known as “nones”) had doubled. By the 2010s, this grab bag of atheists, agnostics, and spiritual dabblers had tripled in size."
That is the same time frame as the "hockey stick" rise of mass shooters. Coincidence?
That is the same time frame as the "hockey stick" rise of mass shooters. Coincidence?
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Capt Gregory Prickett
I don't think that you can blame the religious for the uptick in violence, for a couple of reasons. First, even though the religious, especially the evangelicals are scared to death of a secular society, there has always been violence on the part of the religious. Second, the number of actual shootings over that period has dropped. But we should still try and identify those religious people with a predisposition towards violence.
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1SG Steven Imerman
Ahhhm...
a) The point was this- shootings increased as religious affiliation DECREASED. The religious are much more likely to be targets of mass shootings rather than perpetrators.
b) The stats for ALL shootings involving three or more victims have skyrocketed. Your chart may be correct for the sub-set of school shootings, I hope it is, but the overall trend has been upward.
I also credit the appearance of first person shooter games in the mid '90s for a good part of the total increase.
a) The point was this- shootings increased as religious affiliation DECREASED. The religious are much more likely to be targets of mass shootings rather than perpetrators.
b) The stats for ALL shootings involving three or more victims have skyrocketed. Your chart may be correct for the sub-set of school shootings, I hope it is, but the overall trend has been upward.
I also credit the appearance of first person shooter games in the mid '90s for a good part of the total increase.
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SrA Ronald Moore
It is a agenda to send certain Mexican People back across and build a border wall,,and true all who comes here has to come by the law of The land,Buut Hatred has no place in our country,I suffered Hate, racism,Curfews, And in some form.or fashion, its' like the Trojan horse,Offered s a gift,but we know what happened with that.Is America is in "In God we Trust" When we take the oath to serve, aren't we Taking that oath and Soloemly swear to uphold the constitution of the United States of America ,And in the conclusion of the oath all service people must take,Do the oath also say ,"So help,Me God?
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SrA Ronald Moore
1SG Steven Imerman What about all the shooting of Clergy in Churches,Synagogues, All The Church Burnings, What ever happened with the fore fathers founders saying it is in God we trust.We as Americans can not sell our selves short with letting idealogy,Letting, Hatters of our Constution Usurp ideas over who this country was Principally founded upon.What ever happen to those sleeper cell coming into our country to do us in from the inside,And while we are agreeing with them America is in need of reconciling with God. Who The I be apart of for 63 years was fonder upon,upon The Principles of God
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