Praying On the Carpet On the Fifty

GIVE CREDIT to the religiously fanatic football coach who prayed with his players at the fifty after each game, experienced great resistance for doing so, fought the resistance, took the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and won. Said fanatic is the epitome of the "never give up" spirit which comes in so very handy not only in football, but in all sports, in all undertakings, in life itself. Thus the agenda of the far right evangelical Christian movement seems, repeat "seems" to be undergoing successful implementation, what with the election and administration of one Donald Trump, his three far right evangelical Christian Supreme Court nomineees, and the rest, as they say, is history. These seemingly mentally ill conservative religious judicial fanatics seem, repeat "seem", to be on track to truly convert these United States into a theocracy, a Christian one. But not so fast. Can we now expect religious groups of all sorts to instigate prayer at the fifty, preferably right after the game, but open to accommodation? In a nutshell, we can. As things stand, about half the people in America are Christian, and about half are not. thirty years ago it was over eighty percent Christian, twenty years ago it had fallen to seventy percent, and so forth. The percentage of Americans who are conservative evangelicl Christian is steadily declining, as the baby boomers begin to die off, the millennials assume power, and the post millennial generations come along. In these united states, as it is in Europe, the Christian religion is dying out. Whether that trend will be continued or reversed in the future remains, quite obviously, to be seen. There are several million Muslims in America, and goodly number of Buddhists, Jews, and even satanists and wiccans, not to confuse the two, and not to mention many, many more organized religions here in the land of liberty. Roughly fifteen hundred, if I understand correctly, about half of which are various denominations of Christianity, about half of which are not. If America were to become a "theocracy" (which it won't despite the alarmist outcries of secular progressive intellectuals), the question is, what sort of theocracy? Of what religion? All you Buddhists or HIndus or whatever go grab your prayer rugs and mats, your sacred texts, your incense, and whatever else you need, and get ready to gather at the fifty, right after the game, either before, after, or at the same time the conservative Republican Trumper evangelical Christians are doing the same. Whatever works best.