It is tempting to take the news of this church closure as a sign of progress. Unfortunately, however, while moderate Protestant church attendance is waning, Evangelical membership is waxing. This is real cause for concern. To the extent that Evangelical Christian dogmas conflicts with science, the future of human civilization, and possibly even our species' continued survival, is placed in grave peril. While China's greenhouse gas emissions have recently exceeded America's, the USA still holds first place as the world's greatest polluter. And we are quickly running out of time to address the climate change crisis. Feedback loops in the climate system are already kicking in, and the signs of impending catastrophe are everywhere: drought and megafires in the West, tornadoes and Hurricanes in the East, and crop-withering heat waves in the Midwest. The kind of science illiteracy we see in Evangelical Christian congregations has greatly enabled the fossil fuel industry to continue its rape of the natural world. Witness the high rate (85%) at which Evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump, an unabashed climate science denier and toady to corporate interests. And before Trump, we were saddled with oil man George W. Bush, who billed himself "born again" and whose disastrous presidency would not have been possible without the Evangelical Christian vote. So no, I am not celebrating. This is no county fair midway ride, but it is white knuckles all the way.

Could be that mainline Protestant churches are also seeing declining membership due to the skyrocketing popularity of megachurches. Old churches don't resemble television.

So ... a happy ending?

The community should take it over, and turn it into a homeless shelter.

Hallelujah….

One more down; too many others to go.

One domino falls……..hopefully one day there will be many more in rapid succession

Probably just become another church.

Thoughts and prayers.

Time to turn it into something useful.
A Homeless shelter pet rescue with no god involved.

I note an interesting assumption that the decline in attendance means rejection of belief. I'm unsure it means that at all. While the nons have become significant the percentage of Atheists are still at a low 8%, or so. That suggests they still hold levels of belief but are rejecting the hypocritical dogmatic club membership. They see it for the financial scam that it is and turned away but more agnostic and not old enough to really bother with such questions. That may change coming out of this pandemic and ignite the spiritual new age ideas (like mine). Just a thought.

Hallelujah, praise the lord!!!! Thank you baby Jesus!!!!

Remake that turkey as a secular meeting place.

This does my heart good to see. The less the belief in the ridiculous religion, the better!

Maybe they will use the building for something really useful, like a bar.

It's a decline in ignorance and superstition.