UNCHURCHED #152 - Why The News Is DEAD WRONG About The Decline In Christianity

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A recent survey showed that fewer people believe in God and call themselves Christians (in fact, it's the worst numbers ever). But when you dig into the numbers, there is a different story here.

The news also just made a broad assumption that there would be a linear decrease for years to come (which is incredibly unlikely).

Find out why.

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0:00.0	This fishing, it's in my soul.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast.
0:08.0	Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it.
0:11.0	Prepare to laugh.
0:12.0	Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.
0:17.0	And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.
0:20.0	Here's your host, Joe Simons.
0:23.0	Like Diamonds.
0:27.0	Why the news is wrong about Christianity.
0:30.0	Everybody, Joe Simons, like Diamonds back again, Salt Strong Unchurched.
0:35.0	Not sure if you saw this in some type of news headline, but the Pew Research,
0:41.0	which is the big group that does research on all kinds of things, including religion,
0:47.0	just had a new report.
0:48.0	The last one they did was 2017, I believe.
0:51.0	And this one just came out about Christianity and just the belief in God in general.
0:56.0	And we're at all time lows.
0:59.0	So that's kind of fact number one, all time lows in terms of people who call themselves Christians
1:05.0	and even who believe in a God and believe that God is real.
1:10.0	And then, you know, a couple of the headlines run mostly by non-Christian people
1:15.0	who want to spread this type of thought processes.
1:19.0	The headline was that in the next 20 to 50 years, depending on how fast this might
1:25.0	may or may not snowball down and through the next generation,
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