RE: Article: "Why Are Young People Leaving Evangelical Christianity?"
February 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm
From what I've read, it appears that young people are rejecting the intolerance, rigidity, anti-science bias, and anti-education leanings of fundamentalism. They are also turned off by fundamentalism's obsession with what connecting adults do in private. It does not look like all of them, or even a majority of them, are rejecting god and religion outright, just the dogmatic, inflexible, institutionalized version of their parents and grandparents in favor of their own less stringent, more personal, less structured form.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
