tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post4096189251069588468..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Alternet Is A Vehicle of Hate Of The Kind Which Discredits The Left With The Majority of AmericansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-23802906172278012362014-07-18T12:27:42.884-04:002014-07-18T12:27:42.884-04:00Though it might be even stupider since 1. women ar...<i>Though it might be even stupider since 1. women are slightly more than 50% of the population whereas far more than 85% are religious and, 2. religious identification is higher among women than it is men. </i><br /><br />This, too, is same as it ever was. You can trace that back into American history as far as the point when the churches stopped running Plymouth Colony (while Bradford was still alive and writing about it, IOW). The more the church drifted away from being a governmental power in America, the more men abandoned it to women, and it became a social power.<br /><br />That hasn't changed since.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-88788239995632339932014-07-18T12:25:36.452-04:002014-07-18T12:25:36.452-04:00I haven't read the Marcotte article, but I ass...I haven't read the Marcotte article, but I assume its based on anecdotal data from the internet.<br /><br />As I like to point out to people who make these claims, 800 comments at a website means probably 400-600 distinct commenters (probably less than that, actually), which is roughly equivalent to the number of students I encounter in about two calendar years.<br /><br />Which means I have more influence over people than any internet website, and who am I? After all, the only thing people do on internet sites is get their preferences and prejudices confirmed.<br /><br />Atheism is, what 1-3% of the US population? And "young people" are turning away from the church? You mean, like they did in the '50's? And '60's? Yeah, there were "Jesus Freaks" in the early '70's, but still pastors were noting a rapid decline in attendance by "youth" (Eliot noted it in the '20's), who eventually returned when they had kids of their own.<br /><br />Yes, overall church attendance is down from it's post-WWII peak, but that peak was an aberration, not the norm. We're slowly settling back to normal.<br /><br />But then, context is also not important on the internet. The world was invented with the World Wide Web, and all that came before or that never got on-line, is unimportant.<br /><br />Of course, more people still watch CBS Evening News (which I haven't watched since before Cronkite retired) than go-online or even watch FauxNews, but that doesn't stop FoxNews from being more important than God, and internet web sites from controlling the national conversation and destroying religion.<br /><br />At least, according to people on the internets.....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com