Posted on 10/25/2021 8:50:21 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Several religious denominations have seen memberships fall in recent years, including among young adults and teens. A new survey suggests that many young people perceive a disconnect between themselves and the houses of worship that need believers to sustain their congregations.
Half of young people ages 13 to 25 surveyed said they don’t think that religious institutions care as much as they do about issues that matter deeply to them, according to a report released Monday by the Springtide Research Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit. Those issues include racial justice, gender equity, immigration rights, income inequality and gun control. Springtide tracks the views of American teens and young adults. It has done research work in conjunction with the Princeton Theological Seminary and the Mennonite Church, among others.
The biggest disconnect involves LGBT rights. About 71% of youths said they care about gay rights, but feel that 44% of religious communities care about the same issue, according to the survey of 10,274 people across the country representing various faiths.
They have plenty of options for rainbow fag waving:
UCC - United Church of Christ
TEC - The Episcopal Church
MCC - Metropolitan Community Church
ELCA - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
PCUSA - Presbyterian Church USA
This poll strikes me as 🐂💨💩
Plenty of people were alienated by organized religion long before liberal and leftist ideas were promoted in the general culture and in public schools.
Just because you are born into a religion doesn’t mean that you necessarily agree with it or feel any real connection with it.
This is an idea that has been promoted, these “rights” are similar to media propaganda and the youth have bought every bit of it. Especially due to the literal reading of the bible and its ban on men sleeping with men as though they were women.
My take is that literal beliefs (call them orthadox) are not going to bring these folk back to church or synagogue.
Half of young people ages 13 to 25 surveyed said they don’t think that religious institutions care as much as they do about issues that matter deeply to them, according to a report released Monday by the Springtide Research Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit. Those issues include racial justice, gender equity, immigration rights, income inequality and gun control.
IOW, they've probably never gone to church, and/or have parents who are also nitwits. The woke jokers running/ruining most sects are driving out the only people who cared about churches in the first place. Anyway, Partisan Media Shills alert.
Pure Old Fashioned Communism. Homosexuality is sin, and those who practice it are headed for hell. And gun control. At our church, we have responsible men and women who carry guns to oppose evil and to protect the innocent. We will not stop. They cannot stop us.
At least that's my take on Romans 1:16-32.
Never understood the folks who complain about “elites” yet have no problem kow towing to the clerical elite in certain large Christian denominations.
Churches don’t usually see their primary purpose as that of political persuaders, nor should they.
The Bible is something that can apply in part to most anyone.
Basic rules of morality and consideration of others.
Not thanks to a church that supports those things. Such a church has nothing to do with a Christian God. Sadly that includes most of them today.
[[Half of young people ages 13 to 25 surveyed said they don’t think that religious institutions care as much as they do about issues that matter deeply to them,
Those issues include racial justice, gender equity, immigration rights, income inequality and gun control.]]
Whaaaaaat? When we all went to church- NO ONE EVER was concerned about any of that- EVERYONE got along- rich poor, white, blacks, hispanics- it didn’t matter what race someoen was- we all got along- etc- EVERYONE owned guns- even the kids back then-
As in the Days of Noah
As in the Days of Lot
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On paper, I’m still a member of a UCC church. Haven’t attended in years do to politics. The church leadership hasn’t changed much in 10 years with the same people. No new blood and declining membership. I still get monthly emails from them and each month they announce more deaths than new members by a large margin.
Now, with the Coof in one of the most jabbed states in the US, they still mandate masks indoors on their own and still haven’t had a event, like a church supper, etc. since being allowed to in May 2020. They still won’t allow a social hour after the weekly service. However, they will rent out the kitchen, dining area, etc. for private functions. I guess covid can’t get you then.
Why bother attending.
Time of the Harvest
Wheat vs. Tares
Where did you go to church, where ethnicity and money didn’t segregate? The denomination, the city or state? That’s how Christians should live, but in practice, it doesn’t happen so much.
Of course, the past is another country.
“Just because you are born into a religion doesn’t mean that you necessarily agree with it or feel any real connection with it.”
Yep. That is why media opinion polling of “Christians” is meaningless.
Actually one of the fastest growing Churches in North America are the various Orthodox Christian Churches, especially the Antiochian Orthodox and the Orthodox Church in America.
In one Antiochian parish with which I am well acquainted several LARGE young families—like 3, 4, or 5 children—are received into membership every year.
Most of them are converts/exiles from the liberal Christian (CINO) West seeking faith which does NOT bend the knee to “political correctness” and which unashamedly names God as “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”
The poll may well be an accurate reflection of reality. That the current reality is infested with BS is not in dispute.
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