Why are the young people non-religious

[Anonymous]

The Bible tells us both to love one's neighbor as oneself, and also to slay all the children when invading a new land. Morality is independent of religion and allows us to know which parts of the Bible are OK and which should be ignored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Bible tells us both to love one's neighbor as oneself, and also to slay all the children when invading a new land. Morality is independent of religion and allows us to know which parts of the Bible are OK and which should be ignored.

So you have no good response to the Pew article and you decided instead to make a random generalization about the Old Testament? Just to keep your hate and anger flowing? Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Bible tells us both to love one's neighbor as oneself, and also to slay all the children when invading a new land. Morality is independent of religion and allows us to know which parts of the Bible are OK and which should be ignored.

So you have no good response to the Pew article and you decided instead to make a random generalization about the Old Testament? Just to keep your hate and anger flowing? Go away.

It wasn't random; it was quite specific. And it was factual - no hate or anger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Bible tells us both to love one's neighbor as oneself, and also to slay all the children when invading a new land. Morality is independent of religion and allows us to know which parts of the Bible are OK and which should be ignored.

So you have no good response to the Pew article and you decided instead to make a random generalization about the Old Testament? Just to keep your hate and anger flowing? Go away.

Not that pp, but no one is obligated to respond to your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Bible tells us both to love one's neighbor as oneself, and also to slay all the children when invading a new land. Morality is independent of religion and allows us to know which parts of the Bible are OK and which should be ignored.

So you have no good response to the Pew article and you decided instead to make a random generalization about the Old Testament? Just to keep your hate and anger flowing? Go away.

Not that pp, but no one is obligated to respond to your post.

Get a grip. This thread has a title. The post about Pew was 100% germane to the title. The response was off-topic, random hate. With babyish idiocy like this you atheists end up looking like... angry haters with a focus problem.

[Anonymous]

Nah, just trolls trying to deflect from the Pew post, which obviously wasn't the answer OP was looking for.

Here it is again.

Re millenials in particular, the Pew article points out that millenials are slow to make any attachments. They work several gigs instead of a full-time job, or they job hop. They live with partners instead of getting married. They decide how to vote at the last minute. All these examples are straight from the Pew article, which says, "But we're also seeing the millenials' slowness to make any kind of attachments, and to limit this to just religion is to miss the extent of what's happening."

[Anonymous]

It is much more acceptable in most parts of the country not to be religious compared to a generation ago. Not being religious or a regular church goer isn't the source of conflict or shame it once was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Bible tells us both to love one's neighbor as oneself, and also to slay all the children when invading a new land. Morality is independent of religion and allows us to know which parts of the Bible are OK and which should be ignored.

So you have no good response to the Pew article and you decided instead to make a random generalization about the Old Testament? Just to keep your hate and anger flowing? Go away.

Not that pp, but no one is obligated to respond to your post.

Get a grip. This thread has a title. The post about Pew was 100% germane to the title. The response was off-topic, random hate. With babyish idiocy like this you atheists end up looking like... angry haters with a focus problem.

Who's to say an atheist made the "off-topic" response?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nah, just trolls trying to deflect from the Pew post, which obviously wasn't the answer OP was looking for.

Here it is again.

Re millenials in particular, the Pew article points out that millenials are slow to make any attachments. They work several gigs instead of a full-time job, or they job hop. They live with partners instead of getting married. They decide how to vote at the last minute. All these examples are straight from the Pew article, which says, "But we're also seeing the millenials' slowness to make any kind of attachments, and to limit this to just religion is to miss the extent of what's happening."

Anybody want to say anything about this, which is in direct response to the thread topic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nah, just trolls trying to deflect from the Pew post, which obviously wasn't the answer OP was looking for.

Here it is again.

Re millenials in particular, the Pew article points out that millenials are slow to make any attachments. They work several gigs instead of a full-time job, or they job hop. They live with partners instead of getting married. They decide how to vote at the last minute. All these examples are straight from the Pew article, which says, "But we're also seeing the millenials' slowness to make any kind of attachments, and to limit this to just religion is to miss the extent of what's happening."

Anybody want to say anything about this, which is in direct response to the thread topic?

pp -- what do YOU think about this. It seems pretty clear to me -- religion is one of several things that millennials are slow to make an attachment to. It doesn't predict that someday they will or won't become more or less religious, just that right now, they are moving slowly, as they do with other things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nah, just trolls trying to deflect from the Pew post, which obviously wasn't the answer OP was looking for.

Here it is again.

Re millenials in particular, the Pew article points out that millenials are slow to make any attachments. They work several gigs instead of a full-time job, or they job hop. They live with partners instead of getting married. They decide how to vote at the last minute. All these examples are straight from the Pew article, which says, "But we're also seeing the millenials' slowness to make any kind of attachments, and to limit this to just religion is to miss the extent of what's happening."

Anybody want to say anything about this, which is in direct response to the thread topic?

Holy cow. Just start your own thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here - and I apologize for the tangent. Our neighborhood church dropped our daughter as a member!! Sent a letter saying since they didn't have any record of her participating in the last 2 years, they were dropping her as member. She's in college!! She's 20! How much participation did they expect??!! ... and the church wonders - - how can we increase membership? how do we get young people into the church? Hello??!!

Did she (or you) give them feedback about this decision?

[Anonymous]

They have a religion. It's called Apple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nah, just trolls trying to deflect from the Pew post, which obviously wasn't the answer OP was looking for.

Here it is again.

Re millenials in particular, the Pew article points out that millenials are slow to make any attachments. They work several gigs instead of a full-time job, or they job hop. They live with partners instead of getting married. They decide how to vote at the last minute. All these examples are straight from the Pew article, which says, "But we're also seeing the millenials' slowness to make any kind of attachments, and to limit this to just religion is to miss the extent of what's happening."

Anybody want to say anything about this, which is in direct response to the thread topic?

Holy cow. Just start your own thread.

Why? That snip directly answers the topic question on this thread. Care to join the discussion, or are you just here to troll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Churches are a business. I think people see this now.

If only the tax code would see it.

If most churches did exactly what Jesus did a lot of poverty issues would be resolved. Instead, they build state-of-the-art megachurches or refuse to sell off multi-million dollar real estate and art.