(RNS) The more mixed the Sunday morning pews are, the fewer people are likely to be in them. Thats the primary finding of a new study from Baylor University published in the current Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Researchers studied the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, where racial diversity doubled from 1993 to 2012, and found that, at the same time, churches with the greatest diversity growth also had the steepest declines in attendance.
Kevin Dougherty, an associate professor of sociology at Baylor and lead author on the study, said the findings should not be taken as a stab at racial diversity in churches.
Rather, he said, it shows congregations that are not originally started planted, in church parlance as diverse will have a tough time becoming so after their planting.........
(Let's demilitarize the Planet then, duh. How much of modern hi-tech militarization is simply the world trying to keep up with and defend itself from the USSA -- starting with the atom bomb?)
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Poster Comment:
Many years ago the local birdcage liner did a survey of churches expressly aimed at shaming the white ones for remaining de-facto monoracial after all the social engineering -- but the editors didn't divulge where they spent their Sunday mornings. Diversity is the great killer of white society. Take your pick -- churches, naberhoods, offices, clubs, it always has the same effect, making it a ready- made tool for Jue supremacy and subversion.