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According to a survey done by Arizona Christian University (which "provides a biblically integrated education that prepares its graduates to serve the Lord Jesus Christ") found that 43% of millennials "don't know, care, or believe that God exists".
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Of all the millennials that I know, including my children, co-workers friends and children of older friends, I only know one that's at all religious. In my experience every U.S. generation has become less interested in religion, and some data confirms that. Growth in religion has been in other countries, mostly with Muslims.
Of all the millennials that I know, including my children, co-workers friends and children of older friends, I only know one that's at all religious. In my experience every U.S. generation has become less interested in religion, and some data confirms that. Growth in religion has been in other countries, mostly with Muslims.
I'm not sure it's just millenials.
I live in a retirement community near Phoenix. We have a close neighborhood that has a weekly party (at least before covid), so we get to know each other pretty well. Out of the roughly 20 people who attend the weekly parties, I know one neighbor who goes to church regularly and is quite "religious" (in a very good way). The rest may "believe" and are nice people, but I would hardly call them "religious".
And I have mentioned before that in my small hometown of about 3,500 people, the Methodist church literally went out of business (full pews when I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s), and the Catholic church has been reduced from about 16 masses a week down to 1 mass a week.
Generally as folks get older and their mortality is closer at hand... the view of God and spirituality becomes of greater importance for many reasons. Sometimes it's just thinking about life after death and the questions that resurfaces.
Of all the millennials that I know, including my children, co-workers friends and children of older friends, I only know one that's at all religious. In my experience every U.S. generation has become less interested in religion, and some data confirms that. Growth in religion has been in other countries, mostly with Muslims.
To quote from Luther's Catechism (which I could recite from memory, in my heavily-indoctrinated youth)... "This is most certainly true!" My personal experience aligns with yours, and I linked to some of those data much earlier in this thread, in Post #19. Of all the trends that are emerging, the generational drop off is most striking and consistent:
The sooner ancient, outdated and irrelevant religions (meaning all of them) disappear from the planet the better.
Sadly, I doubt the human race will survive long enough to see it.
Even Biblically perfect religion? you know caring for people?
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