Why Does The Media Avoid Reporting on the Huge Movement Away From Fundamentalism to Progressive...?

[ColesCountyDem]

Why Does The Media Avoid Reporting on the Huge Movement Away From Fundamentalism to Progressive Religion?

November 19, 2014 by Frank Schaeffer

Why Does The Media Avoid Reporting on the Huge Movement Away From Fundamentalism to Progressive Religion?


-Is it that the conflict between atheists and fundamentalists is sexier?
-Does 24/7 cable news think only in black and white terms?
-Does the latest outrage from Bill Maher or Franklin Graham make for a hotter story than the spiritual journey of millions of tolerant, inclusive seeking Americans?

Yet In 2012, Pew found that 29 percent of young white evangelicals (age 18-29) expressed support for allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. Even 10 years ago this would have been unthinkable. And today people like Brian McLaren and me are crisscrossing the country talking to former evangelicals who are still deeply religious people yet who describes themselves as “survivors” of religion.

Millions of boomers have moved from the fundamentalist faith of their upbringing into progressive denominations or no church at all. Yet they still describe themselves as on a spiritual journey....

Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2014/11/why-does-the-media-avoid-reporting-on-the-huge-movement-away-from-fundamentalism-to-progressive-religion/#ixzz3JXKg8tsZ

[hvn_nbr_2]

1. Because progressive religion doesn't serve the owners of Plutocracy Pravda. nt

[ColesCountyDem]

2. Just so.

Once you start reporting on the shift, you have to start telling people what progressive Christianity is all about, and the plutocrats can't tolerate that-- it might spill over into areas beside religion.

[Jamaal510]

3. K&R

[Ink Man]

4. The evangelical church is

growing in So Cal by Latinos not young white kids.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/14/why-has-pentecostalism-grown-so-dramatically-in-latin-america/

Tens of millions of Latin Americans have left the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades and embraced Pentecostal Christianity, according to a new Pew Research Center survey on religion in 18 Latin American countries and Puerto Rico. Indeed, nearly one-in-five Latin Americans now describe themselves as Protestant, and across the countries surveyed majorities of them self-identify as Pentecostal or belong to a Pentecostal denomination. Pentecostals share many beliefs with other evangelical Protestants, but they put more emphasis on the “gifts of the Holy Spirit,” such as speaking in tongues, faith healing and prophesying. With nearly 300 million followers worldwide, including many in Africa and Latin America, Pentecostalism is now a global phenomenon.