Why are the young people non-religious

[Anonymous]

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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?

If it answers it, then there's no need to add anything, unless someone wants to. If you want to, please do, but please stop inviting others to join the discussion. There's already a discussion going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

That's an interesting piece of information about millennials. Thank you for sharing it. Now people will go on providing their own opinions on the topics and discussing the aspects of the phenomenon that interest them and you can't force them to do anything else. Live with it.

[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??!!

What does it matter if they dropped her if she isn't actually participating anymore?

This is one of the things about religion I don't understand. You want to be "part" of a church but without actually going -- ever? What is that?

Can she rejoin once she's out of college? Is she going to another church while she's in college? Is this about money?

I don't go to church, so I don't know how it works. But it seems like the church has every right to say "You don't pay, you're not a member anymore" -- like Netflix.

[Anonymous]

I can answer from the perpective of a church administrator. We are seeing a huge increase in our membership. These younger people are mostly coming from evangelical churches, especially Southern Baptist. Most say they can no longer deal with the intolerance and hypocrisy. They are tired of hearing about how they are "right" and others are doomed to suffer an eternity in hell. They understand that a loving, all-knowing Creator would never set up such an unfair system. They see religion as a tool created by those in power to control the masses.

They are less religious, but often deeply spiritual. They are seekers. They want to explore their spirituality in a safe place. Our church (Unity) like many other new-thought churches offers them that opportunity. They can find their own spiritual path and spend time with others who are doing the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

That's an interesting piece of information about millennials. Thank you for sharing it. Now people will go on providing their own opinions on the topics and discussing the aspects of the phenomenon that interest them and you can't force them to do anything else. Live with it.

NP here. There's a troll who tries to turn every.single.thread into a broader discussion about how religion totally sucks. TOTALLY SICK OF IT. GLAD THIS POSTER IS TAKING HER ON.

The people discussing whether you get to attend church if you don't tithe should probably start their own thread. However, that's so much less obnoxious than the TROLL WHO DESERVES TO BE CONFRONTED. KEEP CONFRONTING HER! GO PP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

That's an interesting piece of information about millennials. Thank you for sharing it. Now people will go on providing their own opinions on the topics and discussing the aspects of the phenomenon that interest them and you can't force them to do anything else. Live with it.

NP here. There's a troll who tries to turn every.single.thread into a broader discussion about how religion totally sucks. TOTALLY SICK OF IT. GLAD THIS POSTER IS TAKING HER ON.

The people discussing whether you get to attend church if you don't tithe should probably start their own thread. However, that's so much less obnoxious than the TROLL WHO DESERVES TO BE CONFRONTED. KEEP CONFRONTING HER! GO PP!

What troll are you talking about? There are multiple pps quoted here and none appear to be trolling, with the possible exception of the person who keeps insisting that people respond to her post rather than the original.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can answer from the perpective of a church administrator. We are seeing a huge increase in our membership. These younger people are mostly coming from evangelical churches, especially Southern Baptist. Most say they can no longer deal with the intolerance and hypocrisy. They are tired of hearing about how they are "right" and others are doomed to suffer an eternity in hell. They understand that a loving, all-knowing Creator would never set up such an unfair system. They see religion as a tool created by those in power to control the masses.

They are less religious, but often deeply spiritual. They are seekers. They want to explore their spirituality in a safe place. Our church (Unity) like many other new-thought churches offers them that opportunity. They can find their own spiritual path and spend time with others who are doing the same.

Translation: Come to our church, we'll tell you what you want to hear, regardless of whether it's true or not.

[Anonymous]

Yup Unitarian isn't a church it's a support group there is no doctrine whatsoever and it is definitely NOT Christianity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup Unitarian isn't a church it's a support group there is no doctrine whatsoever and it is definitely NOT Christianity

Thank god!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

That's an interesting piece of information about millennials. Thank you for sharing it. Now people will go on providing their own opinions on the topics and discussing the aspects of the phenomenon that interest them and you can't force them to do anything else. Live with it.

NP here. There's a troll who tries to turn every.single.thread into a broader discussion about how religion totally sucks. TOTALLY SICK OF IT. GLAD THIS POSTER IS TAKING HER ON.

The people discussing whether you get to attend church if you don't tithe should probably start their own thread. However, that's so much less obnoxious than the TROLL WHO DESERVES TO BE CONFRONTED. KEEP CONFRONTING HER! GO PP!

What troll are you talking about? There are multiple pps quoted here and none appear to be trolling, with the possible exception of the person who keeps insisting that people respond to her post rather than the original.

9:42 and 11:48 of course, for starters. Why does a 42-year-old (tip: not "young" per the thread title) have to put on every.single.thread that she thinks religion is fantasy/mythology. We know you think that, thanks. Now stop trying to derail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

That's an interesting piece of information about millennials. Thank you for sharing it. Now people will go on providing their own opinions on the topics and discussing the aspects of the phenomenon that interest them and you can't force them to do anything else. Live with it.

NP here. There's a troll who tries to turn every.single.thread into a broader discussion about how religion totally sucks. TOTALLY SICK OF IT. GLAD THIS POSTER IS TAKING HER ON.

The people discussing whether you get to attend church if you don't tithe should probably start their own thread. However, that's so much less obnoxious than the TROLL WHO DESERVES TO BE CONFRONTED. KEEP CONFRONTING HER! GO PP!

What troll are you talking about? There are multiple pps quoted here and none appear to be trolling, with the possible exception of the person who keeps insisting that people respond to her post rather than the original.

9:42 and 11:48 of course, for starters. Why does a 42-year-old (tip: not "young" per the thread title) have to put on every.single.thread that she thinks religion is fantasy/mythology. We know you think that, thanks. Now stop trying to derail.

Why does someone go nuts whenever someone states an opnion about religion that is different from theirs? -- it just brings more attention to it. Perhaps that's the goal.

Lots of people think religion is mythology-based -- even some who believe in it and find it worthwhile. This is an exchange of ideas -- and there are many ideas about religion, even within Christianity and other religions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup Unitarian isn't a church it's a support group there is no doctrine whatsoever and it is definitely NOT Christianity

Thank god!

Unity and Unitarian are two different religions. Be careful not to confuse them.

[Anonymous]

Because organized religion is bad news and leads to fanatical behavior
Because Catholicism is a big hypocrisy (I was raised Catholic)
Because I can have morals without religion
Because I'm too busy

signed,
Not that young, at 39 yrs old

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup Unitarian isn't a church it's a support group there is no doctrine whatsoever and it is definitely NOT Christianity

Thank god!

And someone was saying there are no trolls on this thread....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup Unitarian isn't a church it's a support group there is no doctrine whatsoever and it is definitely NOT Christianity

Thank god!

And someone was saying there are no trolls on this thread....

Someone not liking Christianity does not make that person a troll. The OP didn't specify that only Christians should respond.