The evangelicals are getting worse/desperate as church attendence drops...

The mainstream is getting better/more inclusive.

But the "nones" (i.e. agnosticism) is definitely gaining strength according to the surveys. Atheism is gaining more slowly.

What I find interesting, is the growing agnostic clergy... where clergy are admitting they don't believe, that it's a job like any other.

I’ve been to a few services over the years, where people ran around, screamed, rocked, cried, babbled: it’s uncomfortable for me, and when I was a child, frightening. But I get it: they are basically acting out, ‘proving’ to themselves and each other that god MUST be real. Actually, I never went in, but there was a snake-handling church down from my grandmothers house. Crazy folks, in my humble opinion! I can’t think of anything I need to prove that involves a live rattlesnake.
I grew up in NC and was taken to church(Southern Baptist) til I got old enough to refuse. I never have believed in god/religion. I see it as a delusion, and I don’t need it.

I don’t know if a church where they invoke the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues is necessarily better or worse than any other kind of church. But I can imagine if you’re used to that kind of theatre and ritual in your church ceremonies, then if it’s abolished you will feel peeved.

From a rational point of view, invoking the Holy Spirit and such are examples of “woo”, and possibly the speaking in tongues is a sign of mental instability, so from that point of view I’m happy that that church has stopped exploiting its parishioners.