Mainline Protestant

The one caveat I would say is that they have been sold to some extent on, but I think Dana's right, they've been sold to some extent the fear about immigrants.

Like we do see that showing up in the white mainline data.

But where they're not for are things like, internment camps family separation these kind of cruel policies like so they they are susceptible i think to kind of some xenophobic kinds of thinking and and and concerns about immigrants even some of the kind of worries about you know taking over the country like us and them kind of stuff but when it comes down to these images that we've seen ice dragging people out of cars killing people in the streets like they're like no no no no no like that's not that's that's the bridge too far Yeah,

I think with, to answer Jamar's question really directly, is that this is not to let the white mainline off the hook, you know, because they sure have a whole flock of their own issues that they have had to deal with and still need to deal with.

But part of the nostalgia is that the 1950s, in their minds at least, was a really nice white world.

And so it was a nice white world for people.

And I do this with trepidation, Diana, because you are the expert on the mainline.

But everything you say rings true to me.

We know that.

Mainline Protestantism would believe that Jesus instituted two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Okay.

Can we talk about confession, which is also called the sacrament of penance?

The analysis found that 49% of Gen Z evangelicals attend church weekly.

That number fell to 22% among mainline Protestant youths, and it was only 20% among Catholic young people.

Similarly, young evangelicals were more conservative.

46% identified as politically conservative, compared to 28% of mainline youth and 17% of Catholic youth.

So then you switched to the more low church Anglican-

Yeah, I mean, I gave a couple of months, but at that point I started to realize, wow, there's really a fight going on in the Episcopal Church and in the other mainline churches at the time between this sort of redefinition of human sexuality.

And again, we're talking the early '90s here.

So the fight is just getting started.

It pulled the church along.

But I also think something worse happened.

I think the churches in this country, the Protestant mainline churches, were deliberately subverted, I think, uh, along with the academy and along with our government institutions.

I mean, we're seeing more and more of this just get to see the light of day in the last five years especially.