“I’d love to say that we atheists did it all ourselves; I’d love to be able to say that our dazzling wit and slashing rhetorical attacks are persuading people to abandon organized religion in droves. But the truth is that the churches’ wounds are largely self-inflicted. By obstinately clinging to prejudices that the rest of society is moving beyond, they’re in the process of making themselves irrelevant.”
Adam Lee
The author was writing at Alternet.org about the growing popularity of atheism. (RNS)
“From afar and in prayer I see a Saul and David scenario between Perry and Bachman. One looks everything like a king while the other is anointed.”
Peter Waldron
The staffer for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was discussing in a Facebook post the recent entry into the campaign of Gov. Rick Perry. He was quoted in the Houston Chronicle.
“Religious congregations may be one of the few institutional sectors less educated Americans can turn to for social, economic and emotional support in the face of today’s tough times, yet it appears that increasingly few of them are choosing to do so.”
W. Bradford Wilcox
The University of Virginia sociology professor was discussing his recent study indicating the decline in church attendance among white Americans without college degrees is twice as high as those with college degrees. He was quoted by CNN.