[quote=@Vilageidiotx] I suspect the interest in religious diversity is more a symptom of how Christianity in the west has gone rather rigid. It's not a new phenomena, ancient pagan states went through a similar process. Hell, the rigidity of the Roman religion was part of the reason Christianity came about. I think you can even put the out of place political moralism aside (though homophobia and creationism has done them no favors), the big thing is that most churches come off as social clubs for retirees. Though, I will say, I don't think this rigidity is completely true everywhere. You don't see it in Mormonism, or in black churches. Those seem very much alive. Christianity in Asia isn't rigid. I've met a few who came from it (the Korean batch at least. My parents are Methodists and the Methodists are heavy into Korea). It's very revivalistic, but it's also picked up quite a bit of Asianness too. Essentially the thing is still alive there, moving with the current of the population rather than despite it like in the west. I think, personally, we could see a revivalist movement in the west sometime this century that revitalizes Christianity, but like all revivalist movements, the Christianity that comes from it reborn will be different then what came before. But so long as so many churches remain places where old people tell other old people the story of Noah the two-thousand-umpteenth time right before having an egg casserole potluck, Christianity will lose ground in most of the western world. And let them. You only deserve as much attention as you earn. ...I do confess I am a diversity-phile myself, but I think I come by it honestly. It's not so much a liberal open-mindedness thing for me as it is a natural attraction to novelty. I like weird shit. I'm the type of dude that tries the alligator on a stick. So the idea of religious diversity sounds fun for no other reason but it might buy me a few weird conversations (You [i]actually[/i] worship the Egyptian gods? Holy fuck, what's that like?) [/quote] Yah it's just the older sects of Christianity that tend to be really dry. I come from a Pentecostal community, so Sunday morning is basically a free rock concert, with a power-sermon after. The crowds are actually very young, and youth ministries are flourishing among evangelicals. I'm not a fan of Catholics at all. They come from a time where they used to be unified with the government, and it shows. People go there out of obligation, more than anything. As Christianity needs to reinvent itself, it does. Look at Joel Olsteen. His new motivation brand of Christianity has exploded so much, that he's now a mainstream figure. And then there's the Ann Coulter Christians, where faith and politics go hand-in-hand, and really help keep it from getting stale. And don't get me wrong. I've been to China and France, and love both countries deeply. I love different cultures (especially East Asian ones), in all their aspects, but an individual civilization only functions when its citizenry shares certain principles and unifying factors, and this trend of cultural self-hatred on the Progressive Left is extremely destructive. There's a reason Black Lives Matter is burning cities and shutting down airports (even in the UK, where blacks are actually treated BETTER than whites, by the police), while Muslim gangs kill gays and Jews in the streets of London, while Chinese nationalists kill Falun Gong followers and assault Japanese immigrants, while rogue USSR restorationists have taken over entire cities in the Ukraine, while there are entire communities in Canada where they don't speak a word of English, while the Turks and Syrians continue their genocide of Kurds in their own countries, and so on. Multiculturalism, without forced cultural integration, just leads to conflict, and stokes the fires of racism. The Left's refusal to promote their own culture, in their own country, is only going to lead to more destruction, more poverty, more racism, and more death.