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Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
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Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 10:35 am
Article addresses the falling rate of church attendance and the youth still in faith.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/10/...44548.html
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 11:34 am
I only wish I could live long enough to see all the churches turned into Starbucks or something equally useful!
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 11:48 am
(May 15, 2013 at 11:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: I only wish I could live long enough to see all the churches turned into Starbucks or something equally useful!

You might, if you move to Canada. As if hockey and moose crossings didn't make it awesome enough, eh?
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 12:24 pm
(May 15, 2013 at 11:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: I only wish I could live long enough to see all the churches turned into Starbucks or something equally useful!

No matter what holy place of whatever religion, I don't want all buildings or references to religion to disappear. Humanity does need a museum of bad claims to know how bad logic looks. Modern Egyptians keep the Pyramids without believing the sun is a god.

But I never see a day when religion completely goes away. I do think however we can push to minimize the damage it causes and foster more reason and science.

I say keep the Vatican and turn it into a museum to remind people that humans are always concocting superstition. Even in modern times new cults and religions are started.
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 7:15 pm
No doubt that the Sistine chapel is worth preserving, but certainly not for its original purpose Wink.

As someone who's kinda halfway between gen x and y, I think I'd just say that it's far more socially acceptable to be non-religious now than it was even in the early 2000's when I was in school. Some teenagers these days are pretty well informed, what with the vast amount of information available on the interwebz.
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May 15, 2013 at 8:18 pm
Yep that is the good thing. Superstition cant escape the scrutiny of technology. Once word gets out that it is all fiction the harder it is for the myth lover to defend it.
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 8:36 pm
I don't trust anything coming from the Huffington Post.
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 15, 2013 at 8:47 pm
(May 15, 2013 at 8:36 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I don't trust anything coming from the Huffington Post.

Why? Somehow I am smelling a conservative or Libertarian response to follow.
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 16, 2013 at 12:11 am (This post was last modified: May 16, 2013 at 12:11 am by Minimalist.)
(May 15, 2013 at 11:48 am)Tonus Wrote:
(May 15, 2013 at 11:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: I only wish I could live long enough to see all the churches turned into Starbucks or something equally useful!

You might, if you move to Canada. As if hockey and moose crossings didn't make it awesome enough, eh?

And Canadian Bacon....and Moose Head. Don't forget them.
(May 15, 2013 at 8:36 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I don't trust anything coming from the Huffington Post.



Yeah, yeah...we know Chad. You only trust your fucking bible.
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RE: Generation Y and faith, Huffington Post
May 16, 2013 at 3:15 pm (This post was last modified: May 16, 2013 at 3:17 pm by Angrboda.)
(May 15, 2013 at 8:36 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I don't trust anything coming from the Huffington Post.

Well, you could have pointed out that church attendance does not always correlate well with levels of religiosity and belief.
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