Posted on 09/27/2011 7:15:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A young Christian at an purity rally spreads the word.
True love doesn’t wait after all.
That’s the implication in the upcoming October issue of an evangelical magazine that claims that young, unmarried Christians are having premarital sex almost as much as their non-Christian peers.
The article in Relevant magazine, entitled “(Almost) Everyone’s Doing It,” cited several studies examining the sexual activity of single Christians. One of the biggest surprises was a December 2009 study, conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, which included information on sexual activity.
While the study’s primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.
The article highlights what challenges abstinence movements face. Movements such as “True Love Waits,” encourage teens to wear purity rings, sign virginity pledges and pledge chastity during public ceremonies.
Yet many of these Christian youths eventually abandon their purity pledges, Relevant’s Tyler Charles concludes in the article. Tyler talked to people like “Maria,” an evangelical woman who said she wanted to wait until marriage to have sex.
But she said she started having sex with her college boyfriend when she turned 20 because nearly everyone, even most of her Christian friends, were having sex.
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
Cold fish? If it’s gefilte, I think it’s yummy. In a properly sealed jar it keeps a long time, and it can also be served warm or hot when ready.
“Though even better-respected firms like Barna (of Frog In The Kettle fame) have long born the sad witness that other marital dysfunction such as divorce is virtually as common in the USA among people calling themselves Christian as among the unchurched.”
This is a fallacy. A have heard this falsehood repeated over and over again, and as we know-if a falsehood is stated often enough- people will accept it as fact.
There was a book recently published which addresses this fallacy. I’ll try to search for the title and author for you.
leftwing magazine. shocker.
civilization means being able to exercise self-control
Good for your kids. They will not regret their decisions.
My son goes to a Christian high school, and he was telling me that he has heard that his high school has one of the higher abortion rates around. He said at the public schools they go ahead and have the babies, but at his school they secrety get abortions.
His school is very, very conservative and very anti-abortion.
Watered down gospel from parents and in churches, plus influence of mass media covers it all, as I see it. Just say’n
Leftists lie. Leftists ALWAYS lie.
Part of the problem is the presure from the media and school. The bigger problem is the presure from the church to date through high school and college before getting married.
For a while I had been hearing about a “second virginity” movement for those who had sexually erred when younger but now embraced the wisdom of saving “it” for marriage. I don’t know if I lost connection with those circles or if the movement itself fell flat.
I take it you missed the part where I am waiting too?
I am curious, that is all. I don’t know many others who have waited as long as I have.
I did, as well. 38 years.
I watched Glee once at my sister’s and that was enough for me. Certainly not examples I would want for my kids. If my kids were teens or younger, I would not let them watch it or a lot of other shows.
Who says they are Christians? How do we know the young people referred to are Christians?
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they are "religious" and involved in 'this or that church." Of course, this would not at all mean that they are "Christians."
Peer pressure can be overwhelming but I have heard of examples like this-- and becoming sexually active at twenty is one helluva lot safer all the way around than starting at thirteen or whatever. If her intentions of abstinence helped her wait till 20 then it was a relative success.
The research on abstinence supports this hypothetical--that it helps delay sexual activity sometimes for several years until the girl or boy is more mature and at least better able to handle it. Of course the pervs at CNN won't tell you that part.
I spend quite a bit of time on a high school campus and also a college campus.
On the high school campus I see pregnant girls almost every time. On the college campus, I almost never see pregnant students.
They are either all on birth control or have abortions.
>>I waited. 35 years<<
Good for you! I waited 34.
It was well worth it.
If committed evangelicals are really showing it in their conduct, I’d love to hear that. Barna might be casting his net a bit wide, as he reports coming across a lot of nominal Christians who say they don’t believe in the deity of Jesus Christ or some other deeply foundational tenet of the church universal that cuts across all recognized branches and denominations.
Anyhow, what nominal Christians do at a particular time and place doesn’t change what’s right and what’s not.
I tried celibacy. My wife hated it.
;o)
Put me in the “I didn’t wait” column.
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