Ryan Burge ran into a twitterstorm when he posted graphs showing that church attendance is a function of status. People objected that their own experience didn’t match. Burge is trying to assert the data with rationality, but it’s a hopeless fight for the SAME REASON THAT THE GRAPHS SHOW.
In the last 30 years ALL institutions and organizations have VIOLENTLY AND MURDEROUSLY broken all trust. They know what they’re doing. Total chaos and total mistrust is their glorious goal. Room 101 everywhere.
Normal people recognize that all information is tainted, and most of it is intentionally and VICIOUSLY wrong. We stick with our own senses and our own lived experience for a VERY GOOD REASON.
The few religions that are growing are the Pentecostal types that emphasize LIVED EXPERIENCE, not credentials or scriptures.
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