About a year ago, Homeless In America
bloggers and readers began to respond to a poll that was posted at the bottom
of this main page to assess their opinions about the Christian church in America
today. In the Protestant sector, since
the time of James Henley and his debate with Charles Hodge in about 1860, there
has been discussion and research showing that church attendance correlates with
income and “familistic and bourgeois values.” There has been further thought over the years that
many, especially suburban churches might even be inhospitable to working-class,
minorities and poor folks. There may be a lot of truth here in this debate, but is it really new news? After
all, divisions between rich and poor in the church go back at least to the
church at Corinth and of course the Letter of James greatly deals with the
issue too. Bottom line, the bourgeois bulge appears
to be ancient and well documented and now somewhat substantiated by HIA readers and bloggers.
Homeless In America asked the
following question daily since July of 2011:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, lead the
grassroots Christian resistance against Nazism. He believed the mainstream
church had become bourgeois - ineffective in standing up to Hitler. In your
opinion, where are we as a church in America now, grassroots or bourgeois?
Here is how everyone responded:
Grassroots - 0%
Bourgeois - 82%None of the above - 17%
Thank you for participating in this and
all the polls. Please scroll down to
near the bottom of the main page and vote.
There are many other polls still open for voting.
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