The just-released PEW study of religion in America finds that religious Americans are twice as likely to leave a Baptist church as they are to join one.
For every American who joins a Baptist church, two others who were raised Baptists are leaving the denomination, according to a Pew Center Report released May 12.
This should be no surprise; as religiosity declines overall, it’s only reasonable that the most fundamentalist denominations would feel the most severe pinch. The thought process probably goes something like this: “I can’t stomach all that crazy stuff Al Mohler says any more, but the Methodists might be allright.”
Then to the Presbyterians, the Episcopalians, perhaps the Unitarians … and then out the door for keeps.