Posted on 05/02/2017 11:03:21 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
College-aged millennials today are far more likely than the general population to be religiously unaffiliated. This is true when they are compared to previous generations as well.
In fact, the Pew Research Center documents that millennials are the least outwardly religious American generation, where “one in four are unaffiliated with any religion, far more than the share of older adults when they were ages 18 to 29.”
Just over 60 percent of millennials say that Christianity is “judgmental,” and 64 percent say that “anti-gay” best describes most churches today.
In ministry circles, it has long been reported that of youth raised in homes that were to some degree “Christian,” roughly three-quarters will jettison that faith after high school. Just under half of this number will return to some level of church involvement in their late 20s or early 30s.
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Agreed. Elijah thought he was the only one but God had reserved some. The vast majority never will believe in Jesus Christ, though many will go to church. People reject Him because THEY reject Him. Everything else is a smokescreen.
You got a busy organization no doubt.
What is it busy doing. Does it look more than inward?
I’ve attended churches pretty regularly for the past 50 years or so. The problem with them is not that they are “judgemental” or “anti-gay” (been to an Episcopal church lately?) its that they are boring. And they are a downer.
I was amazed at the Catholic Church that my wife and kids attended did not teach Christianity or any part of a traditional Old Testament in their CCD Classes. They were a joke.
The message of Christianity is very positive. Tell me you hear that when you go to a Sunday Service...
Most preachers are horrible public speakers and they focus on the wrong side of the argument. They focus on telling us what we are doing wrong—stuff that will get us in trouble with the eternal plan. Instead of the positive message which is, “You WILL screw up. And I will still love you.”
Churches are pretty much a scam. But you have to start somewhere.
Insert pictures of mega-church pastors with multimillion dollar mansions and private jets here.
Most preachers are horrible public speakers and they focus on the wrong side of the argument. They focus on telling us what we are doing wrong—stuff that will get us in trouble with the eternal plan. Instead of the positive message which is, “You WILL screw up. And I will still love you.”
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Not sure which churches you’ve been attending, but I’ve been to churches of various denominations over the last 15 years. The vast majority of them ONLY tell you that you are “loved and forgiven”....they rarely dwell on sin, sinful behavior, and repentance. If you have attended Catholi Churches, then you know well what I speak of...the themes are often “looking out for the poor, oppressed, and marginalized” or “feeding the hungry,serving your neighbor” or some other material aspect of works. Rare is the message of personal holiness and repentance.
I will let you know when I am in your area. There is a dearth of good churches here.
The last time I really enjoyed going to mass was in 1987. I had been transferred to Natick MA. The local catholic church had a young priest at the time. He had the best homilies. He was smart, made them relevant, and he was humble with a sense of humor.
I understand that public speaking is not the first requirement for someone leading a church. But sure does help!
Busy building fully devoted followers of Christ by sharing the gospel, maturing believers, connecting them in community, helping them serve and guiding them into reaching others. You know, the Great Commission.
According to Pew Research: “Church is difficult because young people today want to engage actively,” Hill said. “They just want to experience God.”
A study released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public life appears to bear that out.
On the one hand, it finds that young Americans are significantly less religious than their parents and grandparents were when they were young. But the report also suggests that many of the beliefs and faith-based practices of 18- to 29-year-olds mirror those of their elders.
One in four American millennials — which it defined as those who were born after 1980 and came of age around the millennium — are not affiliated with any faith tradition, Pew found. They characterize their religion as “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular.”
That compares to fewer than one in five Generation Xers — Americans born from 1965 to 1980 — who were unaffiliated with a religion when they were in their late teens and early 20s.
Just 13 percent of American baby boomers — those born from 1946 to 1964 — were unaffiliated with any religious tradition when they were young adults, according to Pew.
But when it comes to many beliefs and practices — like views about life after death, the existence of heaven and hell and miracles — millennials resemble previous generations of young Americans. For instance, 45 percent of young Americans report praying daily, about the same proportion who said they did in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Another lie. The media is trying to convey a lack of religion rather than a shift in its style of presentation. The word, “tradition” is sneaked in there to make the reader thing religion is not being utilized when it is just being exercised in different ways, and the numbers bear out either an increase or a consistqancy in its existence.
rwood
According to Pew Research: “Church is difficult because young people today want to engage actively,” Hill said. “They just want to experience God.”
A study released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public life appears to bear that out.
On the one hand, it finds that young Americans are significantly less religious than their parents and grandparents were when they were young. But the report also suggests that many of the beliefs and faith-based practices of 18- to 29-year-olds mirror those of their elders.
One in four American millennials — which it defined as those who were born after 1980 and came of age around the millennium — are not affiliated with any faith tradition, Pew found. They characterize their religion as “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular.”
That compares to fewer than one in five Generation Xers — Americans born from 1965 to 1980 — who were unaffiliated with a religion when they were in their late teens and early 20s.
Just 13 percent of American baby boomers — those born from 1946 to 1964 — were unaffiliated with any religious tradition when they were young adults, according to Pew.
But when it comes to many beliefs and practices — like views about life after death, the existence of heaven and hell and miracles — millennials resemble previous generations of young Americans. For instance, 45 percent of young Americans report praying daily, about the same proportion who said they did in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Another lie. The media is trying to convey a lack of religion rather than a shift in its style of presentation. The word, “tradition” is sneaked in there to make the reader thing religion is not being utilized when it is just being exercised in different ways, and the numbers bear out either an increase or a consistqancy in its existence.
rwood
I teach millennials (in a university business school) for a living and offer the following thoughts:
1. The move away from Christianity and God has continued with brief periods of refreshment since Adam and Eve sided with the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. What is new to us is that Dewey disciples, the Frankfurt School and cultural Marxists began an assault on American education in the late 1800’s which resulted in their control of almost every aspect of modern “education” - and I use that term very loosely.
2. Passive conservative taxpayers have been cheerleaders for the funding of an American version of the destruction of Western Civilization. If you don’t believe me, find a large number of instances where conservatives advocate significant funding cuts for education. For every one you can find, I can show you an instance of a millionaire or billionaire making large gifts to universities to fund the expansion of cultural Marxism in order to destroy any semblance of real thinking on those campuses.
3. The only product our schools intend to produce are multitudes of “good little Marxists” with just enough “skill” to be useful cogs in the impersonal machinery of some multinational corporation or globalist government or to be brain dead foot soldiers for societal destruction.
4. Despite the attempted assassination of biblical Christianity from the gray matter of students, I find a surprising number of intelligent, thoughtful Christian students in my classes.
5. If we are to have any hope as a society, thinking people (myself included) have to begin “resisting the machine” and not be content just flapping our collective gums.
That is how it usually works out. I am an example myself.
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