I have an opinion on this one….
Video:
Details about America’s youngest eligible voters and their faith are coming into focus.
A survey of about 2,000 millennials aged 18-24 found major religious shifts among this age group, according to the Public Religion Research Institute and the Berkley Center for Religion at Georgetown University.
The survey found that all Christian groups have millennials leaving their ranks. Catholics saw the the biggest drop of nearly 8 percent less millennials identifying with the religion.
Now, 25 percent of those in this age group say they are “religiously unaffiliated.” Nearly 14 percent of millennials have left the religious traditions of their childhoods to become unaffiliated.
“Millennials are much less likely to say they have a personal belief in God like someone you can have a relationship with,” Robert Jones, with the Berkley Center at Georgetown, explained.
“They’re more likely than older generations to say that God is a more impersonal force in the universe,” he said.Via More Millennials Becoming ‘Religiously Unaffiliated’ – US – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com
I believe there is a reason for this; many of the young people of today, see the utter hypocrisy of Christians today and the lack of separation from the world and they just decide that this sort of Worldly lite Christianity is really not for them. I cannot say that I honestly blame them, if I were in this age group, I would most likely be the same way.
What these young people are making the mistake of doing is this; they basing their beliefs or lack of, on what other people do. Christianity is not about what other people do or, in other words, Christianity is Faith that Christ died on the cross, 2012 years ago for my sins and because of that, I invited him into my heart, when I was 9 years old. I have been saved ever since. What other people do — or do not do — does not affect my walk with the Lord. admittedly, it has been tough for me, I have been wronged by so-called “Christians” in the past. However, I have made the decision, I am not going to stop serving the Lord, because of what other people do.
That, is what these young people have done. The only thing we can do, is pray for them.