While I'm quite happy with the decline of America's Evangelicals, the next big battle with the religious people and religious crazies in the rest of the world and how to do deal with the Muslims. This is only just starting.....

So, the evangelicals are just doing what many xtians have always done, "cherry picking". No real surprise there, it just seems that more of them are doing it consciously, with awareness of what they're doing. I guess that's the first step in realizing that except as a historical document with some poetic passages, the bible is no way to live one's life.

It's funny how all of the denominations I've attended so far have only one clear reverberating message: let's pray that others receive the message we have heard.

Not in those specific words but in prayer and choice is sermon and underlying repetitive message.

They're all right, just inside their own walls, and they cannot have preachers from their congregation be guest preachers at different denominations - while ALL claiming to be christians and/or children of god. At least one pastor has told me they cannot because of difference of doctrine. Isn't that funny?

The comments below the article show that a lot of evangelicals don't agree with Zimmermann's view of the Bible. If they're that hard nosed their views just might spawn a bunch more atheists among the young folks.

The problem in the US is that a relatively small group of evangelical Christians are speaking with a disproportionately loud voice. I used to think that Christianity as an influential force in American civic governance was in its death rattle (early in the GW Busch years). Remember that a ton of them were thrown out of appointed office in disgrace? But this minority seems to be, dangerously, more influential today than even back then. I think it may be time for people like us who believe in getting Christian and especially evangelical thinking out of our civic governance to start making our presence and voices better known in the main stream political discourse.

New interpretations of the Book for questioning millenials?

Religion is dying out