Church going is resurging worldwide especially in young men

[GreenBlaze]

I will come back later, but has anyone heard of this going round social media, the rapture will be taking place in September. I have just read a post on this somewhere.

[Recusant]

Indeed. Any day now, we're told.

[Dark Lightning]

^ Indeed.

[zorkan]

Repent now you sinners or you won't meet Jesus in the air on 23rd September.
Yet he sinned by ordering a horse to be stolen.

Luke 29-30:
When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, "Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

[Icarus]

 Rec provided an impressive list of predicted dates for the rapture. Crackpots on historical parade.

[Dark Lightning]

Rec provided an impressive list of predicted dates for the rapture. Crackpots on historical parade.

I remember when I was taking the family to church because I had been sold the idea that it was a good thing. The priest talked about how prophets didn't do well in their home towns. I think it had something to do with local populace knowing about the crazy family said prophet came from. Crackpots, indeed. The crackpots are spreading that filth into the Amazon, last bastion of heathen tribes. Those people should do what the Sentinel Islanders do, and shoot those meddling assholes full of arrows.

[Recusant]

The narrative of "worldwide" increase in church attendance by young people is somewhat in conflict with the rising percentage of "nones" (those who claim no religious affiliation). Meanwhile Christian nationalist grifters in the US are happy to push a false story about how the youth are flocking to church. This could go in the Dominionist thread, but may be more appropriate here.

"Sorry, GOP. There's no Christian revival" | Salon

urning Point USA ended 2025 with AmericaFest, a blowout conference for the MAGA powerhouse organization started in 2012 by the now-deceased Charlie Kirk. As described by Teresa Wiltz at POLITICO, "the vibe felt less like a political panel than an evangelical revival." Watching the speeches from this fireworks-laden shindig, Wiltz's observation felt like an understatement. Many speeches from the event's main stage were simply sermons extolling a fundamentalist, evangelical Christianity as the one true faith.

"We're here for one name, and that's Jesus," declared Bryce Crawford, a 22-year-old who makes videos of himself accosting strangers, including mentally ill homeless people, under the guise of "winning souls" for Christ. He went on declare that "we're in the last days" and that every person who doesn't believe in his version of the gospels will soon "be cast into hell."

"We're all on our knees, shoulder to shoulder, under the blood of Christ," proclaimed the British comedian Russell Brand, who is facing seven charges of sexual assault, including three rape charges, in the United Kingdom. He included Ben Shapiro, by name, in his list of believers, even though Shapiro is Jewish. He then proceeded to insist that Christianity is the key to resolving the conflict between Israel and Gaza, which have primarily Jewish and Muslim populations.

[. . .]

AmericaFest, as its name implies, is supposed to be a political event, not a church service. By including speakers like Shapiro and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who is Hindu, TPUSA's organizers were even nodding to the idea that the GOP is supposed to believe in religious freedom and diversity. Or, as Vice President JD Vance put it, "We're all part of the same American family." Yet he quickly undercut that message by proclaiming that "By the grace of God, we will always be a Christian nation." While Vance may claim that you don't have to be a Christian to be an American, implicit in his words is the idea that only Christians are truly Americans, and everyone else is, at best, second class.

The blunt reality is that AmericaFest wasn't just overtly religious — it was steeped in Christian nationalism. They equated being an American with being a Christian. But being a Republican, as Crawford suggested in his speech, is synonymous with being an evangelical Christian whose main duty is to convert non-believers. The political message of the event was inseparable from a religious one: that the purpose of the GOP and the MAGA movement is to usher in a religious revival and turn a decadent, secular country into one devoted to a narrow, right-wing version of Christianity.

[. . .]

There is no evidence-based reason to believe there's a religious revival among the young that is about to create massive election windfalls for Republicans. On the contrary, a December report from Pew Research found that, "On average, young adults remain much less religious than older Americans. Today's young adults also are less religious than young people were a decade ago."

But there's little doubt that the kind of people who write massive checks to organizations like TPUSA — wealthy, older Republicans — are very interested in hearing that there's a religious revival in the U.S.

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I haven't been following the story of the shitbird Russell Brand, but it's not really a surprise that he's found Jesus as he faces repercussions for his predatory sexual behavior. That's a standard ploy by creeps when they get caught. Not forgetting that plenty of them are loud and proud Christians whilst they carry on with their despicable skulduggery.

[Icarus]

Russel Brand is a sicko. The rest of that group needs therapy as well.