APOSTASY: IF THE LAT IS RIGHT ...

... one might believe the Last Days are finally hear. The Times Online subhead reads ...

More Americans are shunning traditional religions and turning to upstart faiths such as Universism, whose sole dogma is uncertainty.

What is that supposed to mean? "More Americans"? And this ...

In vast numbers, Americans are turning away from traditional religions. They're not giving up on God, but they are casting aside the rituals and labels they grew up with.

What is that supposed to mean? "Vast numbers"?

Conventional churches still have enormous pull. There are more than 300,000 Protestant congregations in the United States, and mega-churches can easily attract 8,000 worshipers on any given Sunday.

But the number of Americans who claim no religion has more than doubled in a decade. More than 27 million adults — nearly one in seven — reject all religious labels, according to the City University of New York's respected American Religious Identification Survey.

Per capita, nothing has changed; anyone who keeps up with the issue would know that. And Clinton's immigration policies did little to hold the number in line.

But "more" and "vast" are unecessary hyperbole. The headline is misleading; the piece is really about some guy who still thinks like I used to, until I gave up the wisdom of the world and went for some of that wisdom from above.

Apostasy; Christianity; Cults; Humanism; Religion