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Date: April 29, 2022 02:50PM
https://www.deseret.com/2022/4/23/23013578/perspective-young-adults-are-losing-their-religion-are-their-parents-to-blame-gen-z-generation-xAccording to the PRopoganda arm of the MORmON CULT,
“Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 aren’t going to church in numbers like their grandparents and great-grandparents did, and the numbers seem to decline every year. A recent survey by Deseret News and Marist Poll found that only 21% of young adults report going to church once or twice a month. And for all that generation’s talk about being spiritual, these young adults aren’t even inclined to pray. Slightly more than a quarter say they pray daily, compared to nearly 70% of Americans who are 60 or older.
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However, older Americans who understand the importance of religious communities as a failsafe for a wide range of trouble — to include economic hardship, loneliness and existential despair — are too quick to use the “Kids today!” trope when confronting headlines such as “Gen Z is the least religious generation” and “Gen Z is spiritually illiterate.
While these things are true, it’s not Gen Z, but their parents who are to blame. This is a hard truth for the older generations, who earnestly wanted to do right by their kids, even while doing things that would ultimately turn their children away from an institution that offers them companionship, hope and support.…
…This is not to say that latchkey children of divorce can’t emerge as adults with strong religious faith; I did, thanks to a mother and grandmother who made sure I had a robust religious upbringing that was disciplined but also full of joy, soaring music and meaningful rituals. (I’m sure a lot of prayer was also involved, particularly when I was in my 20s.)
But any discussion of the decline of religious faith — and the attendant societal problems such as loneliness, anxiety and deaths of despair — is incomplete without acknowledging that the young adults of Generation Z didn’t lose faith all on their own.
Losing one’s religion in America, it seems, is a family affair, just as becoming religious is, too.”
Maybe GenZ is just bored by the same old group think their parents inherited without question and they’re looking for real answers, instead of the bigoted cliches that satisfied their parents.
Perhaps the cure for, ”economic hardship, loneliness and existential despair” is not attending a Doomsday CULT once a week and praying to a non-existent God, but, developing real knowledge, marketable skills, and forming connections with an authentic community and nature and appreciating being alive.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2022 03:44PM by schrodingerscat.