“These are empty, numb, detached people slaughtering their fellow humans because they are bored and frustrated with their meaningless lives.” - Matt Walsh
"U.S. adults generally can answer basic questions about the Bible and Christianity, but are less familiar with other world religions" - Pew
"Americans with a high level of religious knowledge have a warmer view of Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants and Buddhists than they have of evangelical Christians and are least warm to Muslims and atheists, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center." - Christian Examiner
"'Accessibility, affordability, advertising, anonymity, and anomie, the five cylinders of the engine of mass addiction,' writes David T. Courtwright in his new, one might say compulsively readable book about bad habits becoming big business, The Age of Addiction." - The American Conservative
"A growing number of Americans do not follow a religion. But chances are that the details of their lives — from their phones and their politics to their dinner plates and how they raise their kids — are still ruled by some sort of a religious impulse, says author David Zahl." - RNS
According to FollowTheMoney.org, “pro-choice abortion-policy organizations outspend pro-life ones, by anywhere from 20% to 900%, nearly every year, going back to 1990 … for example, in 2018, pro-life groups put a total of $4.8 million toward independent spending and campaign contributions at the state and federal level … pro-choice groups spent $50.7 million.” - Washington Examiner
"Americans' confidence in the church or organized religion continues to erode, with 36% now saying they have 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence in organized religion, establishing another new low point in Gallup's trend." - Gallup
"Theologians and ethicists, playwrights and lyricists, therapists and politicians, historians and pundits—like everyone else in society—all could have their say. But more and more, each would have to face up ultimately to the supposed precision of the scientist, who among them all seems to have a lock on reality, or at least on the tools for discovering reality." - WORLD
