Article: "Why Are Young People Leaving Evangelical Christianity?"

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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.

I don't think the average fresh young mind's natural objection to intolerance, rigidity, anti-science bias, and anti-education is significantly more pronounced today than 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

But I think evengelical movements' outward crassness and undisguised appeal to ever lower instincts amongst the uneducated and uncritical, has increased. I think this is the root of its decline amongst the educated and semi-educated.