Nearly half of young adults with ties to Christianity say church can’t answer their questions: survey
New Barna Research: “Forty-seven percent of respondents with some connection to Christianity say they feel the Church ‘cannot answer their questions’ or spiritual doubts. According to the study, one in three young adults (32 percent) said ‘hypocrisy of religious people’ causes them to doubt things of a spiritual dimension. Almost half of the young adults who have left Christianity see the religion as ‘hypocritical.’” - Christian Post
I also must confess that, as a working engineer, a certain part of the symptoms look very familiar. It’s almost as if (and I concede this grossly oversimplifies things) it’s akin to an extreme introversion, and I can “get” why those on the spectrum don’t do well in churches designed for extroverts. Prefer 1:1 to group interactions? I’m there. Get disgusted with superficial small talk? You bet. Hyper-focus? Amen!
(a lot of the other symptoms don’t sound familiar, but some of them…)
I remember reading about Dr. Grandin back when I was in grad school…..just blew my mind that she’d figured out that she, and many other autistic people, got comfort in effect from being in a well designed livestock chute. (I was in Boulder at the time, so Ft. Collins and her research was local)
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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