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The Fraud in the Faithful
Has Christianity become nothing more than a grift?
In America today, about 63% of adults identify as Christian. This is a drastic drop from the 1990’s, when the percentage of adult Christians was around 90%, however, the study accounts for adults raised in religious households who left organized religion, or other methods of disaffiliation.
There isn’t an arm of Christianity untouched by scandal of one form or another; Catholic priests and altar boys, Mormons and child brides, Baptists and sexual abuse. There are numerous threads on social media sites which exist solely to keep track of religious leaders who are arrested and what their charges are.
This is a part of Christianity we’ve all heard about, and it isn’t even headline news anymore. It’s sometimes not reported about at all, especially if the offending clergy member has a long reach in the community.
What isn’t talked about often is the business of religion. With Trumps’ announcement of Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense nomination came the discovery of ties to religious organizations like the Association of Classical Christian Schools and the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Aside from their views on sexual orientation, gender, and roles within marriage being clearly defined by the Bible…
