Small or medium churches, large churches, they all have their own culture that shared the same reading, visual and musical businesses.
They criticize everything else in society they see as liberal and micromanage the lives of both the men and the women. After the marriages and children are born, there will be an effect across generations, as one of the blogs I posted explained.
They are primarily a middle class demographic, well-funded with national and international themes being pushed. One after another, they go down this road of reading Tim LeHay's series and others, reading their own version of book of the month selections and doing studies.
I watched a church turn from being liberal and egalitarian to hard right with these outside influences. They are prosperous and vote against all government regulation, taxes and social services. They don't think the state should have anything to say regarding education, business or the environment.
This is a terrible return to an age I didn't grow up in, so assigning blame to an older generation won't fit here and they aren't dying out, instead they going tribal. There is a version of this on the left as well, seeking to ready oneself for an apocalypse they expect from other causes.
It means the end of societal unity by decentralization and inevitable power over groups of people ending up in the hands of grifters of all types. I don't think most Americans grasp how bad it is in some places already, as most live in urban areas. But we have personality cults in big cities as well, with men who find willing followers from those who see things coming apart in the world, even though a lot of that is hyped by media. They want someone to blame and something to make themselves feel special and more entitled to survive than others they don't know.
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