Waters are drying up.

[Dustparticle]

 Religion is declining day by day. How Religious Are Americans? (gallup.com)   https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g201511/organized-religion-dying/ 

[Tia]

Brother Glen,

Thank you - and yes it surely is...many calls made to ones today confirms!!!  

"Is this about religion?"  CLICK!!!

[Friends just call me Ross]

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https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/roman-robroek-chisea/

 

Whether cloaked in thick moss and debris or almost entirely preserved, the abandoned churches photographed by Roman Robroek document the effects of a changing landscape. At least 1,000 of the religious spaces are left unoccupied in both small towns and cities throughout Italy and stand in varying degrees of disrepair. In visiting approximately 100 chapels for his series CHIESA, Robroek witnessed how the once-sacred structures have been left behind. “If a church, once the most important haven in the community, can become a pile of ruins, what does that say about what we hold certain today?” he asks in an essay.

Robroek’s photos, which will be accompanied by drone footage by Sven van der Wal slated for release later this year, capture the beauty of disrepair: foliage grows from the rubble of a collapsed ceiling, a heavy layer of dust covers humble, wooden pews, and gilded trim and elaborately designed altars remain in pristine condition. The Netherlands-based photographer has broadly considered why a growing number of Italy’s churches, of which there are at least 20,000 throughout the country, are deserted. His reasonings include natural disasters, the long-standing effects of war, and cultural shifts. “Admittedly, it might seem incredible that such stunning, artful churches are in this state of decay, but it all connects to the same issues…the lack of community and the economic desolation of an area that has long past its prime,” he says.

Just saw photographic evidence of this on Colossal.   1,000 abandoned churches in the really religious country of Italy, alone.

 

[Lee49]

18 minutes ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

1,000 abandoned churches in the really religious country of Italy, alone.

Once shameful luxury, now the walk of shame!    

[Saffron]

The waters are drying up everywhere but Sweeden, apparently. Have you all seen the news about some politician saying he was going to burn a Koran? People have lost their minds over there. 

 

Watching video clips of them setting cars on fire, throwing rocks at police ect. made me think of the GT. If they are doing all of this over someone threatening to burn a book, what will they be acting like when BTG goes down? 

[BLEmom]

I know. There were also things going on in Jerusalem this weekend. Something’s gotta give 

[Saffron]

Did you see this?? This is the weirdest thing ever. I do not understand at all what Putin has to do with a church in Jerusalem. 

 

Other than this, yes, I saw where there were clashes at some religious site that got pretty ugly. This seems to happen a lot, unfortunately. 

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-704490

[Saffron]

 How about this?? 

 

"Many Canadians now believe Catholicism, evangelical Christianity and Islam are more damaging to society than beneficial, a new survey shows, as people across the country continue to turn their backs on religion."

 

“Broader society still is not fully comfortable and fully clear about what to do with religion, and therefore they show some signs of discomfort,” Abdie Kazemipur, a University of Calgary sociologist and the chair in ethnic studies, explains."

 

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/8759564/canada-religion-society-perceptions/