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Why are 2 out of 3 young people leaving the church?
Topic Started: Jun 18 2009, 09:41 PM (419 Views)
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Ham, the fundy of Answers in Genesis fame, makes a discovery.

Why are 2 out of 3 young people leaving the church?
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Ken Ham, known for his Answers in Genesis creation-science ministry, says a major study he commissioned by a respected researcher unveils for the first time in a scientific fashion the startling reasons behind statistics that show two-thirds of young people in evangelical churches will leave when they move into their 20s.

The study, highlighted in Ham's new book with researcher Britt Beemer, "Already Gone: Why your kids will quit church and what you can do to stop it," finds church youth already are "lost" in their hearts and minds in elementary, middle and high school – not in college as many assume....

The survey found, much to Ham's surprise, a "Sunday School syndrome," indicating children who faithfully attend Bible classes in their church over the years actually are more likely to question the authority of Scripture.

"This is a brutal wake-up call for the church, showing how our programs and our approaches to Christian education are failing dismally," Ham writes in the book.

Among the survey findings, regular participants in Sunday School are more likely to:

* Leave the church
* Believe that the Bible is less true
* Defend the legality of abortion and same-sex marriage
* Defend premarital sex

The book explores a number of reasons for the findings, but Ham sees one overarching problem that is related to how churches and parents have taught youth to understand the Genesis account of creation.

Ham – who believes in a literal six-day creation that happened 6,000 to 10,000 years ago – says the church opened a door for the exodus of youth, beginning in the 19th century, when it began teaching that "the age of the Earth is not an issue as long as you trust in Jesus and believe in the resurrection and the Gospel accounts."

"What you see in the Bible is that when there is compromise in one generation, and it's not dealt with, you usually notice it to a greater extent in the next generation," Ham told WND....
It was Christians drove God out of public classrooms, now they drive him out of Bible classes.
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Ham, of course, doesn't understand that the age of the earth is not an issue with the vast majority of the people who accept the evidence of their own eyes and that presented by science that the earth is NOT 6,000 to 10,000 years old. And, that by sticking with the Young Earth Creationist dogma, questions about the truth of that particular bit of silliness will expand to questions about the truth of the other dogmatic beliefs.

Education is the death of dogmatic religion.

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How true, how true... The United States remains an aberration in its religious beliefs when compared to most of the nations in Western Europe. Here's hoping we catch up as swiftly as possible!
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