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LINK Why politics may kill white churches - Religion News Service

FTA: This paints a bleak portrait for American religion.

The one group that is positioned to attract young people and people of color is aging and shrinking, and the other two Christian groups are moving in the opposite political direction of the youngest generation, which is politically and racially more diverse.

All the while, black born-again Protestants are now 20% more likely to identify as Democrats in the last decade. And though 60% of Hispanic born-again Protestants claimed a Republican Party identification in 2006, that has declined to 40% in 10 years.

While white Christianity has shifted hard to the right, religious people of color have become more attracted to the Democrats.

As the country becomes more diverse, churches hope to become more diverse as well. But the political divides may keep people of color out of white evangelical and Catholic spaces.

Devout white Catholics and white evangelicals may be happy to cloister into their religious enclaves during the Trump presidency, but they need to understand that the distance between them and the people they are trying to reach grows larger every election cycle.

zblaze 7 June 3
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Anytime you mix religion and politics it's bad for both.

1of5 Level 8 June 3, 2019
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