In other words, your opinions and your words are useless

You are making a good point, and providing at least somewhat of a source for your assertion is great.

But your delivery sucks. You would be more persuasive with less abrasive.

This is exactly what I see in my area

The ongoing schism in the Episcopal church is also a tragedy.

Storefront type Baptists are doing just okay, and Catholics have drifted to majority hispanic by now.

Steel-barn / Christian Rock megachurches are expanding

Yea this was my first thought.

Anecdotally, in my area (rural, 25ish miles from a mid city) many of the old-school but liberal-ish protestant denominations seem to be withering… Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist etc.

The storefront Baptists are doing just okay, and the metal-shed-building mega or wannabe mega are booming. New Life etc

This is not a particularly great trend imo.

The ongoing schism in the Episcopal church, also not great.

Can we have Spacedicks back, please?

Truly, I urge you to consider how you feel about 90+ temps with 90% humidity

DC was designated for the federal capitol explicitly because it is an unbearable swamp and the concept was intended to prevent Congress from staying there and becoming embedded

This was, of course, before the invention of air conditioning, but the plan was a solid one.

Most of the actual swamps (wetland variety) have been drained since, but the swamp-airs are certainly still around.