RE: Churches losing membership four times faster than they are gaining it
March 24, 2015 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2015 at 11:28 am by FatAndFaithless.)
Both, in my opinion largely due to the vast amount of free, accessible, fact-checkable information made available via the internet and other mass communications.
I mean, one of the pillars of keeping young people in religion is keeping them insulated against competing ideas until the religious ideas have been sufficiently ingrained. Have you tried telling a young person to stay off the internet? May as well hold a giant sign saying "we're afraid you'll figure out our bullshit".
I mean, one of the pillars of keeping young people in religion is keeping them insulated against competing ideas until the religious ideas have been sufficiently ingrained. Have you tried telling a young person to stay off the internet? May as well hold a giant sign saying "we're afraid you'll figure out our bullshit".
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
