Why Gen Z is leaving Christianity
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2023
- Data shows that more and more young people are leaving organized religion year over year. For Gen Z, there’s one specific topic that’s pushing them away: the church’s stance on LGBTQ rights. In this week’s Stay Tuned, we’ll break down the complicated history between the church and the queer community, and ask young people where they’re turning to for guidance.
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Millennial here. Is it me or is Gen Z just built different? It's like they question everything, and are more empathetic than every previous generation including mine... The world's really gonna look different once youth like these start running businesses and governments with this level of openness and empathy
Join in. You don’t have to be gen z to be caring and constantly asking questions
I think Gen Z's are built differently. Meaning they're mostly born with a higher consciousness than any previous generation.
Lol wth…ive met trashiest genZers
Those that bully ppl on their tiktoks or prank them in extremely inhumane ways or who worship celebrities like Kardashians
And i think the future of this country is doomed
@@selah71sure, that’s why they can’t figure out what gender they are. Actually I think we’ve already passed the gender thing. Now apparently you can be a dog, a cat, even a Gen Z’er despite being born in 1980….yep GenZ got it going on…
@@AjninHaruuhm..
Yes?
Yes and no..
'Ain't no point in you comin' to church. The devil already got your soul.'
I was autistic. 😐
I'm sorry he said that. I hope you realize that what he said was nonsensical. Which is exactly what the devil would do. You just just have to forgive yourself for wanting to be appreciated by people who don't have the mental capacity to appreciate people.
That is heartbreaking 💔 I'm really sorry. What that person said to you is nothing like what Jesus says to you. Jesus literally hung out with the outcasts and the sinners, the sick and disabled, the lonely and brokenhearted. He forgave people freely by his mercy.
His harshest words were for the type of people who tried to use God to get power over others, by accepting and excluding whoever they wanted to. Jesus died for _all of us._ He accepts anyone who comes to him and believes. ❤❤❤
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:17 ✝️
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
"I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."
Luke 15:1-7 ❤
Jesus loves you Anthony... he came looking for you. He's calling you to come back. 🤝 I'm really happy to see you too.
I’m autistic no joke 😐
You don't have autism anymore?
I am also autistic though I am Gen -Z Catholic✝️. Personally for me. My life was going no where when I Wasn’t practicing my faithful religion and honestly I wanted to end i-t all… i was a lost soul even got tempted to do things I am against(no no nothing like that (smoke, dr**).(nothing like that just sadness and wanted to give up) Then religion came in to play. And I felt like a lightbulb happened. Right then I knew this was the way to go live life. I was born Catholic. Best decision to turn to prayers and him🤍🙏 I am NOT turning back. The days in the darkness are behind me because as long as I stand and remain faithful and genuine, loyal to ✝️ I will succeed and genuinely be happy🥰🫶
I have no problem with the religion itself, I have a problem with those who bastardize it to use for their opinions. I grew up in the church, but my parents left because of how much of a business it became
To change something, we have to do something about it. That’s where people fail. They leave the thing alone instead of trying to change it to what it should be. Like making their own church or searching for a new one instead of leaving faith and religion completely.
@@prettymsdance it really all comes down to what individuals want. I don’t personally subscribe to any religion, because I don’t need one to be a good person. But for people around me who find comfort in religion, I think it’s great. What’s not great is treating people horribly, simply for not believing the same sets of principles.
Sounds like your parents were a great example for being persistent!
Bastardize what? Religion is a bastardization of reality...
@@SHDBandit but the same can be said about the lgbt community if you don’t agree you become a target, a bigot and a homophobe or a transphobe just cause you don’t agree with their idea or ideals?
As an African American person when I moved to two different areas my daughter and I were put out of our neighborhood churches within the first 5min. Up until then I didn't know that white and black people had to attend separate churches even though the type of churches were the same. It was a real eye opener to the real reality of racism and I will never forget the hate in those people's eyes and the mumbling when we walked in. Needless to say that I am no longer christian.
I’m so sorry. I went to an all black church once, and everyone was absolutely lovely to me. I didn’t live in that town and rarely attended church anyway so it wasn’t a repeat experience, but I’ll never forget their kindness. I wish you’d had that in a “white”church. Some people are just stupid.
Follow God not people. People are sinners racist ignorant ect.
@@frajim29 I believe she was trying to. Only there was no god in those churches.
I know what it’s like to have your expectations not met by a church. Talking from experience having moved into a different area and been to over 5 different Churches in the last few years I get the pain your going through. All it took was a few bad experience for you to give up though? I encourage you to seek and you will find. There is a church for you and your daughter that will love and embrace you. Sometimes it’s necessary for us go through these experiences because when we find the right church for us it will be all the much sweeter. Truth is there are a lot homogeneous churches out there predominantly white,black Asian etc. When a churches ethnic make up is a direct reflection of it’s immediate population that’s a miracle in itself. In my experience just because a church is multicultural and not homogeneous or predominantly black or white it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the place that we will want to be. I encourage you not to give up your faith because the road hasn’t been smooth. Give your daughter the opportunity that you had to get to know Christ.
@@andrewroberts6930 My daughter says that she has found a very nice church family but we live far from each other. As for me I have gone to other churches but I think that I'll just praise and worship God at home.
Left organized religion as soon as I was old enough to vote.
I'm one of the older Millennials in our generation. My youth was heavily influenced by my family's involvement in Christianity, but I chose to leave the church/organized religion in my early 20s. My teenage son is a Gen Z'er & we've had many discussions regarding religion, however, I've always been careful not to influence his thinking with my personal experiences. My son believes in science above all else & that is what he says is the reason he's incapable of having religious beliefs. My generation grew up with science at the heart of everything we learned so I tend to believe as my son does. We have also witnessed family members, who loudly profess their Christian beliefs, yet they say & do things completely antithetical to the teachings within the Bible. My son is also acutely aware of our current political climate & supports the separation of church & state. We live in a very conservative & evangelical community in rural Indiana, so his opinion is not always popular, especially at school. Despite the adversity, he's stuck to his beliefs and I couldn't be more proud of him. We have no problem with religion or anyone's beliefs...we would just like believers to respect us & our right not to believe as they do.
Science and faith are not at odds with each other. I used to think that, but it's an incredibly limiting, two-dimensional point of view. There are many scientists who developed their faith BECAUSE of science. That said, science is only about physical phenomena which can be repeated in experiments. You can't put God in a petri dish, though. I implore you to look up Dr Sy Garte on CZcams and watch his interview. Also, the director of the Human Genome Project (Dr. Francis Collins) found his faith because of his scientific research. That's just a handful of brilliant scientists who are professors at prestigious universities doing cutting edge research who seem have no issues believing in God while conducting good science.
In a society where empirical evidence becomes the standard measurement of truth,
- any emotion-based faith
- any miracle-based faith
- any aesthetic-based faith
- any tradition-based faith
- any ethnocultural identity-based faith
- any mythology-based faith
won't sell very well 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@mayday24916which one do you believe?
1) human beings become sinners only after they commit a sin, or
2) human beings are already sinners even before they commit any sin
🤔🤔🤔
I grew up above a baptism church when I was a child in Brooklyn. When there was no church service in winter we froze. The family that lived above us also froze. It was the best education I could ever have on these well dressed hypocrites.
I'll just never forget the fact that the preacher at the church where I grew up had a Mercedes that had windshield wipers on the lights. I will just never forget that.😅😂😅
lollllll
It's all that sweet, sweet tax free charity.
Don’t let a person keep you out of church. Christianity is between you and God. Most people probably wasn’t in it from the star. They just now have an excuse.
@@brandisanders5412 "christianity is between you and god.... and the rest of the church congregation that by gossip and slander stand between you and god"
no thanks.
@@ftsumnerwitchdoctor I feel sorry for you if other people have that much control over you and your most personal thoughts and feelings. The church isn’t immune to human faults and flaws.
I (Gen Z) was raised christian from the day I was born. Sunday school, vacation Bible school, church camps, were stuff I became very used to. I knew pretty much everyone in the church I went to, and was involved in the youth group. I started questioning some of the teachings as early as age 11, but nothing struck me much. When I was 13, I started developing tics. The people at the church and other churches as well started telling me that their satan was causing it and that I needed to turn to their god. I was diagnosed with tourette syndrome by a neurologist about 2 months before I turned 14. For a few years since my diagnosis, the members of these churches continued to tell me that it was my fault, it’s because I’m a sinner, it’s a punishment from god, satan did it, and many other awful things. I turned to self harm for a while. Then went to therapy. After a while I realized I didn’t want to be surrounded by people who were constantly telling me I was being punished for reasons they couldn’t even come up with by having a neurological condition like tourettes. I left the religion and became more spiritual/agnostic not too long before I turned 17. I made more friends with the people that the church would try to demonize (lgbtq folks, people of other religions, atheists) and realized that the same people the church was telling me were terrible people who hated me and the god the church believed in, treated me better than the church ever had.
Hopefully God saves you. Please return to Christ.
@@lordroy88after all that they poured out, that’s the best you came up with? This kinda cold, surface level basic religious response is some of the issue. You probably mean well or maybe not, who knows. But this water down response ain’t gonna cut it. They just poured out their heart and truth and spoke to an issue we’ve all witnessed in church culture. As a minister I know this kinda rhetoric that brings more harm than healing and acceptance. Especially always trying to call something a demon, with limited understanding cause we don’t actually have an answer and afraid of what we don’t understand. And furthermore I didn’t hear them say they left Jesus. They left church people and church people’s perspective of “God”. And even if they don’t believe in Jesus anymore, my response still wouldn’t be “well you just need to come back”. Come back? To pain and hurt and dark depression!?!?!
My response is: I am so sorry that happened to you at such a vulnerable time in your life when you needed a safe community the most. Needed support, love and comfort. I pray your continued healing, uplift, love, joy, and life. And that God continues bringing people in your life that lifts and affirm you, in Jesus name🙏🏾
@@lordroy88🤡 this you? Because you surly sound like one😂
@@ShunReadsdude is a clown, it’s best not to engage with clowns like Lordy
Very good story
A Gen-X here. I was groomed to be a evangelical Christian when I was 8 years old, attending a Christian school. I just turned 50 and decided to embrace the questions and faults I found in it. I turned my back on it and never felt happier. Glad the latest generation is seeing it faster than when I grew up.
Modern society has its problems but unlimited access to information isn’t one of them.
All I’m seeing is rotten fruit. You’re not seeing the truth. You’re embracing that ancient serpent. Turn back or the angels that had heeded you throughout your life will weep.
@@justice8718 organized religion 🤮
@@justice8718bruuuuuh
@@rachel_ray8997 You're going to give Christ the "bruuuuuh" for the sentence at hand?
Other reasons is because Christianity teaches mostly fear as a means to control. My sister isn't "allowed" to wear slacks, make up and must "obey" her husband.
Christians say to love one another, but mean not "others" which makes them mostly hypocrites.
This was made worse when the Church got involved with politics and politicians using Christianity as a front for ridiculous and hate filled policys, throwing "love thy neighbor as thyself" out the window.
We are all spiritual beings having a human experience so I'm not surprised people have moved more and more towards spirituality. They are better at seeing themselves and others through the eyes of Gods' Unconditional Love.
How do you know there’s a God and that God loves unconditionally?
Yeah go ahead gen z follow the devil but, remember who gave you life and all that you have GOD
@@zackf698 no one is following the devil. There is no such thing as the devil. Other people do not have to pretend your mythology is real with you. Grow up. My mother gave me life. No one else did.
Have some faith, my child.
You have only to believe in God in order to live. To know God and to live are one and the same thing. God is life.
Love is life. Every single thing I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is bound up with love and love alone. Love is God.
@@dggjr1759
Truth. It sounds like you have had a transformative spiritual awakening of some type.
"I am that, I am." ✨
I’m a ‘99 baby and growing up Catholicism was unhealthily shoved down my throat. I never got to form my own beliefs because I was essentially told “This is the only way”, and I hated it. Finally, when I was 17 and 2 months from Confirmation I spoke up and said that I didn’t want to do it anymore. I never even paid attention during mass or bible study. I fought religion for a long period after but now I’ve come to terms that yes I believe in the holy trinity and stories of the Bible, but I refuse to hold such stern, hateful beliefs that contradict what it means to be a decent human being.
Catholicsm was from around 300 controlled by the Roman Empire whose religion was all about dominance. True christianity of the apostles was one of radical revolutionary love for not only your fellow christian but all of Gods children.
Consider this, if Jesus is the light and the word(a word being a vibration) and the essence of unconditional love then anyone who finds God/divine through a method of love or on a vibration of love and is filled with the light then even if they are a different religion and dont use the name Jesus they are still following "the one way".
Look into the different denominations or glance at Christan mysticism like meister Elkhart
@@TheFragileFeline do u mean Eckhart?
@@TheFragileFeline they still say that their path is the best and jesus is the only way and whatever else. And I'm never gonna buy that.
@@saskialolita haha yes! I guess my autocorrect likes elk!
@@hidum5779 Once again christianity is a spectrum with vast diversity.
Im a christian and my church understands Jesus is the only way, meaning the way of love and light as apposed to wickedness and darkness. Even if they dont believe in the name Jesus, if they follow love light and truth then they follow the same path.
I left the Pentecostal church back in 2014. Ever since I left, my financial status, social status improved a lot and became a lot friendlier, successful.
Same reason why gen x and millenials started to leave. The sexual abuse, theft of tithe, sexism, and just general hate and racism chased us away. It is the then as it is now.
Not for me. The religion just didn't make sense just like all religions
@@Melnokina.-.atheism makes less sense
@@stevenjames6830 That's because you don't understand science
I grew up in a very religious family. My father is 90 yrs old and still reads his bible everyday. I was taught that Jesus loves everyone and that we should love thy neighbor and have forgiveness. Some of my regilious friends show love and forgiveness, however many others fail in these basic human trates.
Crazy thing is, we’ll be standing before God one day and answering for what we did, not what a family member or another Christian did. We can’t throw away the baby with the dirty water
@@SoldierOfChrist316 telling God's choosen people, the Unbelievers!! Jesus supports Trump has made God's choosen people, think He Is a cruel and vengeful God CANT SHARE GOD'S LOVE when Trumps your God
@@rhondasisson1681 what?
Leviticus 12:20 I think
Do some homework
You'll see he don't love everyone but yet only those who are wise enough not to be brainwashed by society into thinking that they and them are acceptable pronouns for someone who is 100% a he or a she
It's not surprising that your friends fall short of the glory of God. We all do.
That guy hit the nail on the head! People look at Jesus as a great role model. But seeing the church not following through makes them look like hypocrites…
Jesus predicted all of it, it’s a sign of the end.
Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." - Jesus
Luke 12:51 "Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division." - Jesus
Jesus literally promoted hatred and division. What makes him a good role model?
I am 62 and havent been to church in 6 years. I feel like the young lady and 3rd young man. I just never was feeling it!
I grew up in a Christian family, but my family and our church were very liberal so it was positive for me. Some Christian churches are horrible, so I don't blame people for not wanting to be a part of that.
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
1 John 2:19 KJV
Get to know the real Jesus of the Bible. Not your jesus, the worlds jesus, or your progressive churches jesus. Get to know the Almighty King of Kings that can persevere on the day of Judgement because of His love for you expressed on the Cross. Don’t trade your birth right for a bowl of soup..
Unbelievers hate Jesus Christ because of ALL the Greed and hypocrisy in the Evangelical Church Most Unbelievers think Jesus Christ is a cruel and vengeful God I will never believe hate!!
@@rhondasisson1681 amen, I Always tell people “don’t throw away the baby with the dirty bath water!!”
Islam is a religion who makes us to Believe in Jesus,
We Muslims 100% Believes in Jesus,
We Muslims Believes that Jesus is the Christ,
We Muslims Believes that Jesus will Come Again to this World,
Jesus did Miracles by the Permission of Allah,
Jesus himself Never said “Im God” also Never he said anyone to “Worship Me”
Jesus was Just a Prophet and Messenger Of Allah Only to Guide The People of Israel,
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*Jesus Denies Being God* | Read ⬇️
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"My Father is greater than me." [John 14:28]
“I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to My God and your God.” [John 20:17]
“Jesus said: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” [Mark 12:29]
“Jesus, Fell with his face to the ground and Prayed.” [Matthew 26:39]
“Jesus said, “My teaching is not my own,
It comes from the one who has sent me.”
[John 7:16]
“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgement is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me." [John 5:30]
“The crowd answered, This is Jesus, the Prophet.” [Matthew 21:10-11]
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*The Coming Of Prophet Muhammad In Bible*
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“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When he the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come, He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” [John 16:12-14]
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*Allah Clears About Jesus*
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[Quran:- 5:72]:-
“Jesus has said, "O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord."
[Quran:- 19:30]:-
“Jesus has said, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet.”
[Quran:- 4:171]:-
“Christ Jesus the son of Mary was no more than a messenger of Allah, So believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah:
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It's all B.S. to me!! If the Evangelicals would live it!! wouldn't that be a witness for that Bible you stand by?? what is it called, The Book of Love??
I was over it once my father tried to say i was possessed by demons that were causing me to disobey him
😂😂😂
What 😂
He tried to gaslight you
satanic panic
I didn't think my kids were possessed by demons. I thought they were the demons.
Shouldn't the most important issue be, "Does a supernatural exist?"
Just using the term "supernatural" implies that it doesn't exist. It is beyond the natural, an untestable, unobservable "realm". If they can actually make something to test the "supernatural" Nobel prizes will be handed out by the spadeful.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.
Yes. Yes it does.
It dose I saw and felt plus heard it first hand
Good job Gen Z for being your own brain.
We are literally walking in Rome & Greeks footsteps 😅
You mean the Rome which entered decline only after making Christianity its official religion?
@@user-hy9it2lm9kThe roman empire fell 1100 years after embracing christianity
@@jokubasbarkauskas8486 Right, which is after
Yep
@@jokubasbarkauskas8486 Romans left Paganism
As a millennial born in 91, who can blame them?
Cristians are free riders. That’s why others will never take Christianity as a belief seriously.
@@aceclash Well, ask the over 2 billion ppl worldwide and see what they have to say...
@@Juwar1974 trust and believe that number is getting smaller and smaller.
@___ Chief Not in any significant numbers. Further, Christianity may be getting smaller but Islam is growing. So religion isn't going anywhere. People are just shifting to something else.
@@Juwar1974Islam is pretty much the same as Christianity
I’ve never believed in man made organized religions.
I believe in god, the universe, and love. I’m spiritual.
It just feels right.
Yes but we are still a mortal body so we still need “Overseers”. Overseers being those that observes the Land and earth. We still need builders, architects, entertainment of some sort. This is where “pastors” came in and watched over the land, but Christianity was built by government authorities over the “Overseers” who are the true people who should have a saying.
So we still need some kind of organization but it needs to be one where ALL prosper and there needs to be leaders.
I grew up religious, and after leaving home a devout Christian. Eventually I looked at life and pondered as to why a “all loving and good God” would allow for some of this stuff to happen. Look at this world. If your god is as loving and caring as your churches talk about then why did they reinforce with so much hate over the years? There’s been many other religions that have deemed as “myth” in order for them to be seen immediately as not real, but contain stories just like Christianity (all while being more inclusive than Christianity!)
Religion is also what connects with you. With Christianity I was the one having to search for it. In my new religion, it reached out to me. I can put faith into it and see signs from the pantheon. Religion shouldn’t be a “Well my parents believed in it, so I must too” type thing and Gen Z is the first generation to realize that I believe.
The book of Job has answers to why bad things happen, but not all the answers. If we only love God for the good things then we don’t really love God we just like the good things he gives us but if you love God through those bad things then God’s going to turn it around for redemption. The reason the church is hateful to other groups is because they’re forgetting what Christianity is all about. We are supposed to love people but not their sinful lifestyle and a lot of people forget about this.
Sure you’re introduced to Christianity through your family ,but that doesn’t deny you from making it your own belief. Also learning about Christianity through your parents isn’t the only way. Also don’t you have to search for your new religion also? Idk I don’t really get that.
Mysterious ways lol
@JesusIsOurLord-xk9zz the book of job? Where god kills a guy's entire family and destroys his home just to prove to Satan job still loves him.... you realize that's an abusive relationship right?
For me it was the opposite, I wasn't religious to begin with and I became Christian when I got older.
My mom was the same way.
Me too. Christ is king!
yes he is king
Many who come to find Christ are adults anyways, most gen z haven’t reached adulthood yet.
@@adrone123 cope lol
@@mushihimesarna728 You worship the antichrist.
I'm gen z but im a christian
@@Theperson-sp7zu thanks👍
Good for you, but you know, God is not a dead man!
@@ibrahimalharbi3358 jesus is alive
@@leonardobenten3035
I agree
Do you agree God can't be dead even for a second?
God is by definition is Immortal
Hope the best
Deny God is optional
Keep your faith is a blessing, can be taken
@@ibrahimalharbi3358 If God can become a man and die, then he can, physically not spiritually.
God is not bound by scriptures or even a particular religion. It is super alienating to so many young people that human-written scriptures, many erroneous, are used to point at them in condemnation. God saves everyone, not the chosen. I recommend "The One God" by Marshall Vian Summers.
Thank you!
Thank you.
Thanks Alison, that's a very inspiring book.
I'm an atheist, but was never a believer, so I'm fascinated with deconversion stories. The journey out of theism and all the emotional manipulation that goes with it is fascinating to me because I do not know if I could have overcome that kind of indoctrination.
I have thus read hundreds of deconversion stories, and have noticed certain patterns.
The deconversion process can take months, years, or even decades to unfold. Generally, there is a period of intense study in an effort to figure out what is true. There is also a component of wanting to distance from the immorality of the Christian church.
If you look at the deconversion stories of older ex-theist atheists, there is generally more emphasis on the search for truth and less emphasis on wanting to avoid association with evil.
If you look at the stories of younger atheists, there is more emphasis on wanting to disassociate from evil and less emphasis on the search for truth.
You can hear it echoed in the interviews in this video. They can no longer tolerate the immorality and do not want others to associate them with the immorality that has consumed the church.
Bad truth claims and learning about the murky origins of the Bible are no longer the primary cause of deconversion. It's the moral issues, plain and simple.
I'm an agnostic (from atheist. incidents happened with me and it proved to me personally that there's something out there) and have been seeking the truth for quite a while now. Spoke to some evangelists and their arrogance and hypocrisy pushed me away from this religion. They say they are logical or whatever but I've seen quite a lot of them just forcing their beliefs onto me. For now I'm happy with the eastern religions which aren't as rigid. I also love tribal beliefs by virtue of which they respect the nature and don't over exploit natural resources.
Sometimes when your curiosity about the foundation of this massively important thing in your life (religion) becomes unanswered questions and "have faith" you lose all trust in the church. That's how I felt. The church also felt very much like a middleman between me and God.
I grew up in church I loved it. Sunday school, AWANA's clubs for kids was great but back in my day we had "Pioneer Girls" which was so fun. I was the Chief Pilot for four years voted in in a row. I started the Scrap book at church of our group. Got to walk & be in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, CA. I only did that once, I got to carry the end of the sign in front of our group. That was really hard to walk to far. So I changed our group by passing a rule that a new person is voted in every year for the leader & the scrap book keeper upper. It just didn't seem fair, & I was too busy with school & work after school & sports & homework which is struggled at. Glad I got saved in church it has led me to SRF=Self=Realization Fellowship, I'm very happy with the holy group I'm with now for 25 years now. God is real & Jesus Saves. Never changed my beliefs just added the higher knowledge. Wonderful. ☦
I would fall into Paul's "older atheist" category. As a man of science, I've always been about Truth. Objective, verifiable truth. As a child I went to church and was brought up to believe in God, etc., but I always had my doubts, even back then. It just didn't seem to make sense. If God exists, where is he? Why can't I see Him or hear Him? There's no evidence of his existence. It all just seems to be made up; imaginary. I mean, come on. If someone told you he had a friend whom no one can see or hear, who is all-powerful, yet incapable of doing _anything_ to make his presence known, but who really, really exists nonetheless, wouldn't you think your friend is crazy?
And if God loves us and is all-powerful, why does He allow bad things -- sometimes horrible things -- to happen? There seems to be a serious inconsistency there.
Then around 1987, I heard in the news about a man named Larry Singleton who was being released from prison after only seven years for raping a 14-year-old girl named Mary Vincent and chopping her arms off. The unspeakable horror and brutality of this crime really affected me, and quickly confirmed what I had always suspected: *There is no God.* How could a loving God allow such a horrible thing to happen to anyone, let alone a child? The only rational explanation was that there isn't one. Which was also consistent with the total lack of evidence of such a supernatural being. That's when I became a confirmed atheist.
At that point I experienced a profound sense of relief from the cognitive dissonance resulting from the idea of a benevolent and omnipotent Supreme Being that seemed incapable and/or unwilling to stop Evil.
Everything made sense after that. The world is crazy and chaotic, yes, but that's because there ISN'T a Supreme Being in charge of things! It all made sense now.
Of course, my little essay here isn't going to convert any True Believers. The desire to believe in a benevolent Supreme Being that looks out for us is very strong.
But I'd rather be guided by Truth -- supported by evidence -- and the answer seems patently obvious to me.
I'm just amazed that at this advanced point in human existence, 23 years into the 21st century, where we have supercolliders that have unlocked the mysteries of subatomic particles and have space telescopes that can see into the farthest reaches of the universe and observe the first proto-galaxies being formed, there are still _so many_ people who believe in an invisible, omnipotent being that has no discernible location and for which there isn't a shred of evidence. (And indeed, against which there is overwhelming proof of its _nonexistence,_ despite the fact that no such proof is required.)
I could understand it if we were still living in the Dark Ages. But _today???_
@@jwilcox4726 omg, I remember Pioneer Girls! I forgot about that! I'm agnostic now but I do have good memories growing up in the church when I was little.
People will always disappoint no matter what faith they are or what there belief system is .
Yes John Nolan, well said and if these statics are true, could that be the reason
The reason we have incredable violence by youth and mass shootings by young people, could it be they haven't been given any spiritual awakening. After all we are but little animals when we come out of the womb, we need instruction on how to live peacefully with orher humans.
@@mariabaca3941 I feel it is a main reason. The Bible teaches not to follow man, but the Word of the LORD only. Man and the world is going to disappoint you everywhere you go. The moment you start to uphold man and the world over the scripture and the Holy Spirit, what do you think is going to happen.
@@jiro1281how do you know that bible is the "word of lord"? 🤔
I think you already know
Left Christianity when I found out people were worshipping an evil god who claims to be merciful and omni-benevolent.
I’m an older millennial. I was pretty religious but just don’t feel that connection anymore. So I stopped going. Church requires a lot of your resources and doesn’t really give anything back.
You said it! B/c it is all repeated bs by every generation!! Crazy ppl, what good has the perception of a loving god ever really done for man, earth, and all its creatures? anything? Nope, never!!! Sorry but that is evidence of NO EVIDENCE OF A SUPREME BEING!!! Just those last words make me avoid such people
VERY well said, and so true!!
Respectfully, church is one hour and can be used as a self meditation. Those two things don’t require a lot of resources
@@michaelplauche9901church required more than that.
@@StylistecS ummm okay. What did church require from you besides one hour of two and you paying attention?
I was forced into evangelism at the age of 4 and i hated it immediately, had to pretend til i was 13 and started pushing back hard. Then i came out at 15 😄
Same but with Christianity and came out for my deco version at 30(32 in December)
I was christian until I read the whole bible and started studying history of religion. The hypocrisy and hate you find in church was also a big turn off.
What hypocrisy?
@@justice8718 as in the literal definition of hypocrisy, the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform
church is filled with people who proudly behave against what they claim to believe
@@luizappicanco So you became just like the people of your Church and rejected Christ as Lord. What a thrilling background of widespread failure.
My youngest brother is a Gen Z native. He found a church after moving to FL under my mother's command. I am taking it for granted that he would quit attending church anytime soon. My other siblings stopped attending church for a while just because it ain't a rule to attend church every Sunday.
I'm choosing not to force my child to go to church like my parents did. It turned me off the idea of having a relationship with God because it felt forced. Instead, I'm teaching my daughter all the spiritual principles I learned from the people I saw actually living healthy, spiritual lives (typically not found in the church). I think this will do her a great service and lead her to have an actual relationship with God. I believe God would rather us try to seek out his guidance everyday rather than just on Sundays.
@@ReallyBadJuJuand what are the questions you have about Christianity
@@SoldierOfChrist316 Better question: what makes you feel equipped to answer them?
@@0HellcatMary0 I can do my best. I’m a reborn flower of Jesus Christ. The old me is dead, I no longer live, but Christ lives within me. I believe I’m sincere in my beliefs. I’d love to clear and misconceptions about my faith
@@ReallyBadJuJu Trust me, I've been doing that since I was 14 when I first started going to AA. It took me 11 years to get completely sober and during that time I did ALOT of self analysis and questioning of my own beliefs. I finally settled into a spiritual "understanding" after an incredibly profound spiritual experience that jolted me into sobriety ever since. That was 8 years ago and I'm still strong in my spirituality. Interestingly enough, my daughter is the one who is bringing up the spirituality topic on a regular basis. She frequently says things like "Who makes trees, God or Humans?". "Who are God's Parents?" "How old is God?" She has an innate curiosity about our Creator and loves thinking about him and praying to him. She also is very interested in the space and science.
The reason? Their insincerity and falseness scares away most people.
It's difficult when you fail to walk in their light. People know when they are living a life of destruction lies and brokenness and yes SIN.
Every individual life soul can and in some cases will receive salvation even if they have No context of understanding it. That's not up to you to determine one way or the other of the false hoods or narratives of it for anyone but your self.
The idea that raising these younger generations with no faith or faithless is clearly part of the problems that these younger generations are struggling by.
Their influence peddler comes from the qaukadoodle gender ideologies. Theories that gender presents in over 300 + identities lolol GTFOH
These kids are taught to go against everything that is absolute about creation. Disassociation is applied to create the separation from what may be taught in the home. The Deception of education becomes grooming, tolerance becomes acceptance.
Activists, silence is violence.
Transhumanism becomes the new worship. To be Woke is the new speech.
Who doesn't want to be absolved or affirmed ...
Also, being exposed for being sexual abusers, corrupt, bigots and entitled... who wants to join them??
@@Matthew-vb8qb I think there is more reasons than that.
@@Matthew-vb8qb Christian idea of sin is tribal not universal
@@aceclash see? You can call yourself an atheist, we all know what the opposite of christianity is: satanism. See how many died in communism, see how many will perish under transhumanism. Your whims and disregard for love and life are showing all the time.
Im 16 and I left religion 2 years ago
I'm a Christian agnostic, I don't blame anyone for leaving the church. I don't see myself ever going back to the church setting because of the hypocrisy, greed, and judgement I've seen. I still believe in God or (some higher power), but I don't need some cult organization to do so.
And you guys call Muslims evil 😂😂😂
@@humzanafees9348 Muslims are literally all of those things, and then add "insanely violent" to the list
Christian agnostic?
What in earth that means?
You want to believe in Christian God, but you are not sure is he truly the real one?
Well, don't be comfortable with your not knowing position, get to know God. It's possible.
So you left church, because of judgmental people, but you there also judge the church as hypocritical and greedy.
Why you left, and not took opportunity to help those to give up their greediness or hypocrisy? Do not let such people to keep your out of the church.
After all, church was all about hospital for sinners, not a museum of saints.
Evil people in the Church go against what the Church teaches. Even 1/12 of Jesus' original Church was evil. We don't leave Jesus because of Judas.
@@KingPingviiniA Christian agnostic is one who enjoys Christian culture (sings hymns, gospel songs, celebrates Christmas, has a high respect for the moral character of Jesus of Nazareth) but who doesn't hold the superstitions surrounding the faith like the virginal conception, miracles, resurrection and ascension of Lord and his imminent return
That's nonsense. Condemning LGBT is not the reason why a religion declines. Because on the other hand, Islam is growing faster like never before. And Islam is still condemning homosexuality until today since the first day.
Islam is the fastest growing religion. Muslim tend to have higher birth rates compared to other religion. Muslim populations has limited access to contraception and family planning services. This can result from factors such as inadequate healthcare infrastructure, lack of education on family planning methods, and religious beliefs that discourage contraception use. Low Socioeconomic Factors among Muslims also play a role in high birth rates. Muslim families have limited access to education and employment opportunities. In such circumstances, having more Muslim children can be seen as a way to secure support for older age, contribute to Muslim family labor, or increase the chances of economic stability.
@@snehashispanda1651 Huge number of births does not make some group of people weak, poor, or anything negative.
Huge population was never something negative. The Western world thinks the more smart someone is, the less they wanted a kid. While they're facing a downfall. Outnumbered.
@@snehashispanda1651regarding Islam rising in birth rates, it is also rising in conversion
@@Sayafa45295 literally that’s a cap lmao !! Where u got this from ?? Christianity has the highest rates of conversion and leaving the religion literally check it on Google …. People are just waking up and realising that Christianity is a fairytale comic religion
Islam is required by law in most places its practiced, and the average Muslim family has 8 kids. They are not converting people they are breeding slaves
I'm an atheist who grew up in the church. I always had a tendency to be skeptical about the stories, and the magical thinking never sat well with me even before I could really articulate why. To me, it was no different than santa and the tooth fairy (thankfully, my parents never lied to me about those things). As I grew older, I realized that religions are old, problematic frameworks entirely based on people's feelings, emotions, faulty intuitions, and agendas. It can help people process difficult experiences, but it leaves people vulnerable to abuse, manipulation, avoidance, contradiction, tribalism, self-hate, dishonesty, magical thinking, and all kinds of other issues. Not only that, when it's taught to children as truth, it is literal indoctrination. I am glad I got away from it
Belief in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy never improved the world. The Bible is the source for things like the end of slavery and the belief in individual rights. The Bible is the source of real Christianity, and it teaches each believer is a priest able to be guided by God - now that is liberating from exploitation. And organizations and groups of humans are subject to abuse and exploitation as humans have a herd nature that is easily exploited by those with bad intentions.
Totally agree, biggb! 👍
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thats not make you smart....every religion is true people are not able to understand this...i am hindu .....once you read.... holy gita.....and katha upnishad......and then follow and try to understand your own faith
What about us who were never indoctrinated, but come to know that Jesus Christ is the true way.
I was a pastor's kid and I had figured out by about age ten that the Bible was mostly fiction. By my mid teens I guessed that about a third of the members of our church were like me. They knew that the Bible was mostly fiction, but they were stuck going to church for whatever reasons. Their bodies were still in church, but their brains had left long ago. Some people ask, "Why are there so many people are leaving the church?". The question should be, "Why are there so many people still there?".
💞Unquestioning Love for Our Father God, and his Son, Lord Jesus Christ. Keeps the majority of us, faithful to his word.🙏✝️🌺💕
@@ceceliamathews7190 Every year more and more people are questioning their faith, and as soon as they do, it's over. It becomes apparent very quickly that all the arguments for God are fatally flawed. Here in Canada at the current rate of decline, the mainline denominations will all be pretty much gone by 2050, and Christians will only make up between 10-15% of the population. In the US it will take a little longer, but eventually Christianity will die out there too.
If all the churches in your city closed, how many of them would actually be missed?
In my city that number would be very very low and maybe we would be better off without them.
I lost my faith when Christian evangelicals embraced and some even worshipped a highly immoral person like Donald Trump. Christianity has been damaged by Trump but Christian’s let that happen
All politicians ruined the religion not just trump
That removed all doubt of the Evangelical hypocrisy. They claimed morals mattered, but then turned to the most immoral person, because he promised them political power.
I am in my early 50’s and I grew up going to church every Sunday with my family as we were encouraged by my grandmother to attend. I left it all together in 1992 or so and was practicing Buddhism for over a decade. I stopped with Buddhism but I still believed in the basic principles of it. Now I consider myself an Atheist as I am tired of the hate, racism that is directed towards everyone who is not Christian. I also think that Christianity is all make believe as there are so many contradictions and errors in the Bible starting right at the beginning. Pastors and priests are just using religion to keep people in line. For example the tree of knowledge is what “Adam and Eve were supposed to stay away from”. But if God is almighty and he created people with brains, then how and why is knowledge a bad thing? Over the past 2 years, I have been very happy to be an Atheist and I look forward to many more years of being free from religion. If you are doubting your own beliefs and are not getting valid answers as to why you should believe, then if you can and when you are ready, choose to walk away and be free!
My path was very similar to yours. I am in my 60s, brought up Catholic, practiced as an adult but it meant nothing to me. I got involved in Buddhism and although not a strict Buddhist I follow the philosophy. Also am learning about Taoism as well as Paganism. They all make more sense to me than Christianity. I dislike all organised religion.
Ask yourself this question also… Adam and Eve story there was only 4 beings present right? God Satan Adam and Eve? So who wrote that story 😮
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Jesus of Nazareth had a lot of good moral teachings. And those teachings definitely had a big impact on the world.
However, I just couldn't keep affiliating with his "fan club." Due to a number of issues, I left Christianity and my old church for the sake of my well-being.
Jesus Christ and Christianity are not the same things. Jesus never wanted people to worship him. He warned us about that. Christianity is based on Pauls (who never met Jesus) corruption of Jesus message.
In California, USA, there are lots of churches that accept LGBT people. Just make sure they fully accept LGBT people, and don't just advertise "we accept everyone" - (subject to certain terms and conditions).
Because Christ is not their God.
So are Millennials. Also, I know a lot who have left that have been abused by the church and members.
Not me
I'm saved by Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. Repent
@@ralphangel561 Good for you, I guess. What? You want a medal?
school abuses children 10 times the rate churces do, but you are not allowed to leave school, funny that isnt it?
@@ralphangel561 repent for the way your god made you? Lose your own accountability through human sacrifice of a person you never knew? Saved from what? From sin? Who told you were a sinner to begin with? You think of god as an immortality genie just admit it. Jesus saved you from god? None of it makes sense dude but you’ve been taught what to think NOT how to think. You hate the very brain god has given you ☠️
@@ckrazy813 Seek help. You're lost
"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." John 3:19-20
Suppose there’s a group traveling about your area, led by a charismatic speaker who claims the world is ending soon. He promises he alone can save you, but you must sell your belongings, devote your life to him, and cut off family members who try to stop you. He may also assign you a new name / identity, advise you to leave your home and job in order to follow him, and says that if you don’t love him more than your own family then you’re not worthy of him. His followers wrote a book about him in which he performs many miraculous feats, but no contemporaneous outside source corroborates these claims. What sort of group is that?
Since your god has not shown himself they must be in the darkness. Since your god is in the darkness he is evil.
Do you know who in the Bible is the bringer of light? It it Lucifer, who’s name literally means the light bringer. You are not even worshiping the light from your own book. You are worshiping the darkness.
@@user-hy9it2lm9k your question reflects your ignorance of so many facts. Where did you see that there was no corroboration? The story you're making up only exists in your imagination.
@@geniuspharmacist That is quite the opposite of what you are saying. Why did God only reveal himself to people in the Middle East back in ancient times just like any other God would? So unfair the Native Americans, Chinese, Africans, Latins etc didn’t get a holy book written in their language for thousands of years.
All religion is built on subservience to power you're not supposed to question and mandates what information is and isn't OK. Low and behold when you have a generation that has had since they were born, all the information in human history, they might start asking questions about magic man in the sky.
I've noticed that a lot of Christians seem to really dislike cats but love dogs. You don't really see this in other religions either, even in other abrahamic religions like Islam or Judaism where cats are seen as pure or clean in some way. I always assumed that it's because Cats are feminine and don't obey you. I'll always prefer Bastet over Jesus. At least cats exist.
cats will eat you once you die and dogs will sit beside you till they die
@@Nxch_xyz Every animal will eat you after you die including dogs.
@@Based_Gigachad_001 No they won't they lay down right beside you in respect to you for taking care of them
@@Nxch_xyz Sources? I can easily say that my cat performed a heart surgery on me but that doesn't mean anything if there is no proof.
@@Based_Gigachad_001 Bruv it's a fact dogs have respect for their owners cats only do because you feed them
I used to be Christian i have many reasons for leaving. I can't pin down what made me leave.
Why do so many people think
Christians = God?
They say "Christians hurt me, the church hurt me, so I will turn my back on Christ" ????
Christians are just people, flawed, and imperfect. Yet you turn, blame, and take your anger out on God because of some lost christian holding a piece of cardboard on a stick? Or because of some pastor or church who condemned you? Your answer is to condemn God for their actions? People who say "The church left me, so I left God". Your reasoning for leaving God is not justified because of your anger toward people. Your anger is misdirected
This is a ridiculous take that doesn't reflect the reality of the real world
@@lilithowl Weird how society victimizes Judaism and Islam yet Christianity is exclusively hated. Weird how people toss around the words “Islamophobia” and “antisemitism” yet there is no word for Christian hate being tossed around.
@@petermj1098 The same reason we don't have widely used terms for "hating heterosexuals" or "hating men" (despite common terms like "homophobia" and "misogyny"), why we don't have "white history month" or "international men's day", why universities have scholarships for people of Native American descent but not Italian descent, etc... It's not weird at all. Christianity has been (and still is) the most dominant and powerful religion in the US, and the Christian church has been worldwide throughout much of history.
Have you heard "communism has failed every time it was tried". Well, Christianity has failed every time it was tried. Every time Christians gain a bit of power, they cause more harm than good. And what reason is there to believe in God, if the fruits of that are poisonous?
Churches are rotten. Christians are rotten. Christianity has poisoned politics wherever they got involved. The Bible, if you read it with an open mind, is just a collection of hate and exclusion, apart from 3-4 lines that are often repeated it has nothing to do with modern morality.
I still believe and by God’s grace and strength will continue to walk with him until I take my last breath. Interesting how there is a decline in America yet other nations where believers are persecuted are seeing unprecedented growth. The American church could learn much from out persecuted brothers and sisters
A reason it is on the rise in other countries especially in Africa, because Americans are convincing governments to outlaw homosexuality. They have convinced them to implement death penalties. Not something America needs to emulate, we are increasingly theocratic as it is. It is actually shameful to have religious people attempting to get their beliefs on the law books.
Because you are a weak fool without reality inside your mind. You are always going to be a loser, because God doesn't exist. The Bible is the biggest lie in the History of the World. I can prove it with one simple question. The Bible is talking about Satan, how he can turn a good person to do Evil. That he has so much power. That's your Bible's on words. So how come he can't write a book, like the Bible or the Book of Islam. Because don't you think that he doesn't want people to follow him and know his way of living or what would happen if you follow him. He can be the loving one. But we don't know, the same with God. Because no one has met the invisible man in the Sky either. So here is the question, were is his Book of defence?
I’m actually on the opinion that jesus would befriend a lgbtq+ person, no matter what these pastors and priest say.
Yeah he would...
Then tell them to repent of their sinful lifestyle.
@@freedomclub2285 so you speak for Jesus!? How blasphemous of you sinner 😂😂😂
Back when I was 5/6 years old, I wasn't taught that there were other religions, I just accepted that Christianity was the only one and wanted to be baptized, of which, that happened. It wasn't until I was in (a private Christian) middle school that I learned there were other religions. In that same school that I learned of the stupidity of Christianity. One such thing they taught was "Christianity is the only True Religion. All others are fake." From that point on, I decided that I would have been better off without being a part of the occult and decided to work my way through the rest of my school years. The moment I graduated in 2016, I ditched that awful religion. I have been happy ever since.
The private school taught Pre-K through 12th grade. I attended from 7th grade through 11th. Why 11th? I crammed two years-worth of knowledge because that school wasn't open the following year.
I'm a Gen X and I left Christianity well never really got into it really. I still won't either.
Same I got more frustrated at it them interested in it so I got tired of stressing about it and left. They say know Jesus know peace well if you just stop forcing youself to know him then you are at peace
As a Gen Z’er the churches views on LGBT issues bothers me immensely but personally that’s not what initially pushed me away from it. For me it had more to do with the colonial justifications it created for erasing a large part of my peoples history and culture. Many Mayan, Mexica and other Mesoamerica texts were burned for being “heretical” and they contained a lot of history that we now have to also pick up through ruins.
I also grew up with autism (and obviously still live with it) and it had a lot strange stigmas around mental health. It made me feel guilty for normal hormones that make me a sexual being as we most are. There were just too many philosophical issues and scientific issues that I had with it growing up but I don’t think for all of us it started with lgbt issues. Personally I noticed the scientific, philosophical and most importantly historical issues first before I could completely shed any of the homophobic or transphobic feelings that were passed down to my by parents religious views. Which luckily was early on in middle school but I just want to say that this one issue albeit very important doesn’t encompass everything.
It has almost everything to do with Social Justice though, yes. A lot of racist, colonialist ideas were spread and justified through Christianity. Science was necessary to prove that we’re all the same and that differences between us are almost entirely social and made up. That the harm we’ve done one another was over assumptions and made up lies. That was my core issue with it growing up and what eventually lead to me later questioning every one of its policies that antagonized other groups.
quite true. They speak of "love" but destroyed a lot of other belief systems. They also destroyed a lot native knowledge - farming, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and much more. And racial supremacy has its roots in christian supremacy.
Ah yes grasshopper, you feel correctly.
FIRST come the explorer to blaze a trail.
SECOND the missionary to bring GOD to the heathens hordes. Once they are -civilized- tamed,
THIRD the -merchant- carpetbagger slides in to grease the 'economy'. and lastly,
FOURTH the Military comes in to "Protect American Interests". It's how The Hawaiian Kingdom was STOLEN.
The Trinity of Evil, if there's such a thing, are the 3 things the 1% have used to cotrol the masses.
Economy $ Religion and Politics.
It's why the nuns pushed "Obey Authority"
I had a hippy button that said *QUESTION AUTHORITY* things I learned 50 years ago.
-Queen- King, Pope, President. *EVILNESS*
Your grammar is horrendous......
I think your confusing the vast tapestry of christianity with specifically Catholicism which was brought to you by the Roman Empire or perhaps one of the many denominations that have completely forgotten that Christianity at its core is a Social justice movement, Jesus came to show us men and woman are equally important and to love all of Gods children by embodying the light and love of Christ. Any blood spilt in the name of God is directly against the teachings of Jesus who like MLK taught radical nonviolent disobedience.
@@TheFragileFeline the zombiejesus story is plagerized, not original SUN if Ra born of a virgin birth, ascended 3 days dead of Winter, rebirth, light, dark, birth, death, renewal. The narrow mindedness of religious sects keeps the worl devided. Magical believers will never agree, even on peace. They're all too busy getting their tax free piece. By birth father was one of them preachers. Thank life he didn't raise me. I could have been brainwashed too. Though I doubt it. The catholics tried and failed miserably.
His statement about we are seeing the long version of church not being used as a way to nurture one’s faith but as a weapon… 👍
As Gen Z I came to Christianity. When Christianity declines in US, it rises in some other parts of the world
Monotheism is not, nor has ever been, the only version of religion. Knowing that is knowing the world as it is.
Indeed but if you're hungry and the first restaurant you see is McDonalds, and you learn it's the most popular restaurant in the world, and you never try anywhere else, you're liable to think McDonalds makes the best food
I became an atheist as a I did more research and immersed myself in science, history, and factuality rather than the supernatural
Good for you. This is great news.
Serious question to the progressive believers - if Christianity is evil, non inclusive, terrible past etc then why not make up your own religion? I find it hard for someone to say “I believe in the biblical Jesus but don’t like these other parts of the Bible.” Why not start from scratch and make up your own god? You don’t have to copy pews, sermons, singing, church architecture etc from a religion you don’t agree with.
Perhaps because their authority isn’t the scripture but their emotions and feelings
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;”
1 Timothy 4:1-2 KJV
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
1 John 2:19 KJV
Because they love Jesus, but not the fan club.
@@Jamhael1 I think you mean to say “they love the concept of who Jesus was or represents.” Not Jesus himself if they see the Bible as evil and non inclusive because Jesus said “If you really know me, you will know my Father as well.”
That’s not how religion works. You don’t get to decide that for them.
@@overbeb I think I understand what you’re saying. You’re saying that they can take pieces or people from the Bible and create their own thing from it. Take what they like and fill in what they don’t.
The stinger speaks volumes- the host looks next to the "science" behind astrology and psychic mediums.
Notice how this whole video said nothing about what is true, only how people feel.
There's no hate like Christian Love
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate The Truth.
@@DgDo-tt6uftruth is verifiable. Just because you feel something is true does not make it true.
There's no lies like Christian truth
@@maxipaw-dc5xj Christianity is absolutely True.
@@maxipaw-dc5xj you are a liar.
It came to a surprise Baptist are Grooming, children, not drag, queens, and drag shows
Nothing like a business pivoting in order to stay afloat
It's comforting to know younger generations are turning away from the christian cult religious mind virus. We need to protect our children from these evil pastors, priests, youth leaders and other religious predators from their grooming and sexual abuses
Says the people mutilating children
Christians and therefore Christian doctrine is way more than a cult or regional sect. Christianity can occupy any language, ethnicity, city, or country on the planet. You might be thinking of ancient regional cults or sects like that of Osiris (ancient Egypt) or Mithras (ancient Persia). Write me back if I misunderstood something you said.
Believe in Government not Religion.
Bro really said "Believe in Government" 💀
@@Sayafa45295 ikr like wtf 😳
I grew up in a southern baptist church. My mom and I prepared food for the church every Wednesday night so that everyone could have the chance to enjoy a hot meal. Part of the reason for deciding to do this was because we knew that there were families with children who couldn't always afford to have a hot dinner, and we offered them dinner at no charge and charged only $8 for those who were better off. Those who paid got angry that the less fortunate families got free food and made a big deal about it to the preacher. I also had an experience where I caught my youth counselor talking about how she thought that I was weird and didn't like my personality to another youth counselor while I was at church camp. The same youth counselor happened to be my neighbor and told my mom that the other neighbor's son was possessed by the devil because he had adhd. There was also the time that I caught adults talking poorly about a girl who attended our church because she had a teen pregnancy. They did this in the church parking lot less than 10 minutes after service was over after they had just smiled in the girl's face and said that God does everything for a reason and that they would pray for her and her baby. All of it haunted me into adulthood and was one of the many reasons that I turned my back on Christianity and turned agnostic.
This isn't a concept unique to Zoomers. It's been a long-time trend that has been building across generations, but accelerated since Millennials with the dawn of the internet age. The gap between Zoomer and Millennials isn't as large as this video insinuates and their data is very outdated (sources are 5-8 years old!!). Newer sources demonstrate the gap is much closer between those two, and the gap much larger compared to prior generations. We'll also likely see Gen A being even more atheist than Zoomers and Millennials as the trend continues to accelerate. And what's to say people don't abandon religion as they age?
This video also places way too much emphasis on sexuality as for the decline of interest in religion when that's just only one of many reasons.
I would take this video headline with a grain of salt and recommend anyone further research before making assumptions. It simply wasn't well crafted as it could have been.
This video showed a chart that represented the steady decline in church membership that started with the Baby Boomers and continues the downward trend with Gen X, Gen Y, the Millennials and continuing to slope downward...trust me it's in this video..
@@ieattofu68 And your point? Did you not read what I wrote? Do you have eyes? I didn't comment on the trend in general but specific aspects of it like Millennials v Zoomers and how outdated the sources are.
amazing how god is fake but 72 different made up genders arent, sounds to me they switched one religion for another.
What if you just don’t believe in Christianity as a moral code or real story?
That would be amazing. The problem is not believing in a god but how those believers treat non believers.
All religion is made up stories trying to explain the unknown, we now have science for that, and other fields like psychiatry/counseling, sociology, legislation for the other things.
I think it's always the case that young ppl always leave their religion but then gradually comes back as they age.
Why is corporate media doing a puff piece proselytizing for religion? Gross.
I don’t care about religion but there are too many religious people who are toxic or full blown bullies
If you don't care about religion... you should still read about Jesus. He's by far the most beautiful person to ever live imo. Even if you're staunchly opposed to religion, its still extremely worth your while to learn more about him. The things that Jesus said and did are incredible.
and theyd be toxic with or without religion. Too many dum dums out there that have a negative interaction with someone that just so happens to be a proclaimed christian and makes the wild conclusion "oh, all christians are toxic". Thats usually what someone of low IQ comes to conclusions.
It's funny how the Bible says do not serve false gods do not worship idols. So then what are we doing right now LOL
Everyone has made up their own god in their heads to worship whose sweet and cuddly. That is idolatry
There have been thousands of gods, the Jewish/Christian god is just one in a long line. What if the ancient Norsemen were right and Odin is the father of the gods? Or if the ancient Greeks were right and Zeus really is the big guy in charge? Or maybe the ancient Egyptians got it right and we should all be praying to Horus? A billion Hindus put their faith in the thirty-three major deities in the Vedas, and to the hundreds of deities mentioned in the Puranas of Hinduism. Gods like Devi, Ishvari, Bhagavati, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, Parvati, Brahma and Saraswati. Who can say that a billion Hindus are wrong? They've been around a lot longer than the Christians and the Jews. What about the Buddhists who follow a religious way of life but have no god.
There no such thing as the Bible
@@busterofcoviddeniers I have several at my house
@@busterofcoviddeniers No, just a translation of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of what was probably an oral tradition written by unknown authors at some unknown dates.
My biggest issue with the catholic church is they preach one thing but do another. I knew a priest that my dad got into an argument with over the school and for some reason my dad felt bad and wanted to say sorry to the priest so he did so on his death bed and that priest refused to forgive him and he ended up dying. What kind of priest wouldn't forgive someone on their deathbed. In my experience this is how most catholics act.
Of all the organized religions, Catholicism may well be the worst.
and that is the way of how God judges us. Are you critical of God or the people who claim to be followers of God?
Are you saved by default of being Catholic or any other denomination? Or just simply making a statement of faith?
In God's Word, we are told of a servant who is greatly indebted to the king. The king chose to forgive the servant. He didn't attach any caveats. He didn't give him any tasks. There were no Hail Marys or any other conditions. There was only forgiveness, completely free. Full of grace.
Afterward, the servant departed and came unto someone that was indebted to him. He chose not to forgive that person who was indebted and chose to punish them instead.
Upon hearing of the lack of forgiveness, the king summoned the servant before him and then reinstated all the previous debt. All forgiveness had been removed.
Your dad did right (which is righteousness) . He is covered in grace. That is God. The unforgiving priest is not of God. Please follow your dad's example, and forgive as God instructs us. Dont be like the unforgiving priest. Your dad did good.
Jesus gives us this story as a description of God's Kingdom in Matthew 18, starting at verse 23.
Even concerning the priest, you should forgive him as well. Your dad did.
As for the above video, this is the "falling away" prophesied in the bible.
Boy, can relate to that......I did the same thing, but in the 70's.
That said, I have to say I am excited about the Gen Z young people. In the free spiritual meditation practice I follow, called the Steps to Knowledge, it emphasizes that all of us came into the world to be of service to the world. What I sense in Gen Z kids is that they came into the world downloaded with enormous gifts, and that is why we see them standing up for the environment and standing up to authority. I love their strength.
Thanks!
Thank you for helping people see their potential. I will say if they were true christians they would hold that same belief. Jesus taught us that all of us came into the world to be of service to the world and all of Gods children. The dogmatism of the church has muddied the true teachings of Jesus and the ancestral knowledge of Christian Mysticism
@@TheFragileFeline Criticize the Jews. I dare you.
Knowing that Christianity has been used as a weapon, how do pastors justify trying to keep Christianity going? Do they think they can somehow do Christianity better? Is hate just a bug and not a feature? Christians aren’t wrong when they point to scriptural support for their worst impulses.
@@ghostsamongus3370 what does that have to do with anything at all? You guys can't even defend your ever more extreme positions anymore, you just point fingers at everyone else and thinks "i pwned them libs"
Yes they are. Love your neighbor as yourself is scriptural. Many people simply define disagreement as hate. That is not hate so you’d need to be more specific.
They are desperate to justify their delusion.
every religion and ideology has been used as a weapon.
@@herculesbrofister265 cant see what he said but i bet his argument was something on the line of "when the left uses their ideology as a weapon is fine" and he is right by the way.
I love Jesus ❤
Me too! He's my favorite cult leader
Define Jesus
I love me to. I'll lead humanity towards a new technological revolution.
@@JesusChristDenton_7 We didn't ask for this
@@JesusChristDenton_7 I swear I see you everywhere
This is actually an interesting thing, why a religion that only worships once a week has less regeneration of young followers, Rather than a religion that requires worship 5 times a day?
Man, I see this and I have to question some things. We praise those that question the religion as it has bet practiced for so long and I agree many things should be confronted. I also believe it’s necessary to challenge the perception of God. It’s as if the fact that men across many generations have misconstrued God’s word negates God’s word altogether. I have to push back. Although many people have misrepresented God, that is not an excuse to dismiss God or his word. Saying oh I can get this anywhere or we’ll times are changing so we’ll change this too. Those are cop outs and accepting a watered down version that blends and melds with everything else misses the mark completely. Salt and light. Those are what we are called to be. Salt preserves, heals, and prevents rot, light exposes and illuminates. Though the world around us is changing God is not. We may have times of confusion and doubt but to say this is who I am and change the identity that The Creator established for us is misleading and a derailment of God’s intent. It’s not about religion or seeming better or more holy than someone else. The actual purpose is to submit our lives to Christ. What it means to be Christian is not some club to be accepted and tolerated but to embody the truth that GOD charges us with. His righteousness permeates us when we surrender our thoughts and narratives to Him. We are so proud and arrogant and we think we know better than God. We are lost without him. We just encourage each other in our sins and we become the blind leading the blind. There are hateful people in the church who don’t walk in the love of God the or fear of the Lord they are wrong and their wrong is not a justification for the wrong of supporting and encouraging the deviance of lgbtqia+ Finding support in the waywardness of “identity” that deviates from The Creator’s intention for his creation and then judging the Creator as evil or wrong is exactly the definition of pride. The original sin that Satan was found guilty of. Ask yourself why is everything that I do so aligned with the one who has made himself the enemy of God? No one (person) is righteous not me, not you only God is righteous. That’s tough to hear and society can’t get behind that, it’s too abrasive, it’s too confrontational. Allow yourself to be introspective and be honest with yourself. I pray that God removes the veil of deceit over your eyes. Satan want to destroy you. God wants you to have life.
GOOD!!!
I love Gen Z !!! During the 60's and 70's, I was one of you!!! 💙
thats... thats not a flex fam
That’s sad I’m sorry, it’s sad that you can’t fined peace in religion but you can fined it in TikTok.
you should be ashamed of that...not proud
Good for you.
Islam is a religion who makes us to Believe in Jesus,
We Muslims 100% Believes in Jesus,
We Muslims Believes that Jesus is the Christ,
We Muslims Believes that Jesus will Come Again to this World,
Jesus did Miracles by the Permission of Allah,
Jesus himself Never said “Im God” also Never he said anyone to “Worship Me”
Jesus was Just a Prophet and Messenger Of Allah Only to Guide The People of Israel,
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*Jesus Denies Being God* | Read ⬇️
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"My Father is greater than me." [John 14:28]
“I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to My God and your God.” [John 20:17]
“Jesus said: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” [Mark 12:29]
“Jesus, Fell with his face to the ground and Prayed.” [Matthew 26:39]
“Jesus said, “My teaching is not my own,
It comes from the one who has sent me.”
[John 7:16]
“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgement is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me." [John 5:30]
“The crowd answered, This is Jesus, the Prophet.” [Matthew 21:10-11]
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*The Coming Of Prophet Muhammad In Bible*
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“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When he the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come, He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” [John 16:12-14]
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[Quran:- 5:72]:-
“Jesus has said, "O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord."
[Quran:- 19:30]:-
“Jesus has said, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet.”
[Quran:- 4:171]:-
“Christ Jesus the son of Mary was no more than a messenger of Allah, So believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah:
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This title is absolutely nutty.
Organized religion has NOTHING to do with GOD. Going to church does not mean people have a relationship with GOD!!
The religious set the rules an that’s the file for Christianity. Good news is your god doesn’t exist
The Physician came for the sick. I don't know which CHURCHIANITY these young people were exposed to but CHRISTIANITY has brought hope, healing and deliverance for all who wanted and needs it. GEN Z included. I also think it is better that people who aren't living a life for Jesus exclusively be honest and say they are not Christians. It's more honest to be candid about your spiritual beliefs. The lines distinguishing between those who follow Jesus must become very clear. American Christians need to start praying for the young people of the USA
PS not sure when this video was posted but in the last 2-3 months a revival has begun on American campuses with Gen Z'rs running to God. A revival started by Gen Zrs. The first one that broke out was a simple gathering of a few students meeting for prayer. That one service lasted for a few weeks without stopping. Probably broke that world record of the longest church gathering ever.
Christianity brought the Crusades to the middle east. Christianity brought the inquisition to Europe. Christianity brought the Troubles to Northern Ireland. Wasn't a lot of hope, healing, and deliverance in those places.
I was christian, and its mindcontrol that will destroy your life. I was fooled by the bible to break up contact with family because they were unbelievers (Matthew 10:34-36), i thought christmas was "satanic ritual", I gave up all my money and became homeless "for the gospel" (luke 14:33) and forced to eat from dumpster outside grocery store. My reputation was ruined. And amidst all of this, I never got healed from injury, even though all the supposed miracles of the bible, my health got worse from sleeping in tent.
Dont become brainwashed like me! It takes years to come out from the mindcontrol. You talk nonsense Skola.
Makes sense 🎉
Leaving Christianity or having little knowledge other than seeing con artists on TV?
I can tell you this for sure: Jesus is no con artist. He didn't go around teaching and healing because he wanted to get money, or power or fame. It was exactly the opposite.
Jesus would tell people early in his career not to tell anyone that he healed them. John 6 says that after one miracle, the people wanted to make him a king by force. So Jesus quickly slipped away from the crowd and went up a mountain to pray. He would also sleep outside cities in tents with his disciples, rather than being the guest of honor everywhere he went.
Matthew 11 says that Jesus was "gentle and humble in heart". He forgave sinners and spent his time with the poor, outcasts and despised. He was continually at peace... never lost control of himself or sought his own ends.
Even when he was about to die by crucifixion, Jesus begged the Father for any other way... and then submitted himself to what God wanted, for the good of the world, and not for himself. He endured the most agonizing and humiliating death, as a condemned criminal. He was completely innocent, but never spoke a word in his own defense.
Its no wonder that God raised Jesus from the dead. He had lived an utterly perfect and beautiful life as the Son of God, and yet he still chose to die on the cross for our sins. He died for the sins of the very people who hated him, mocked him, rejected him and abandoned him. He did it for you, too. ❤
Awesome 👍👌
"Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence-stuffed and in a museum."
All the religious zealots in the comments are the exact reason people are leaving religion. They don’t respect others choices.
I married down, spiritually speaking. It was tough allowing my husband to be head of the household. He really abused that belief. Now I'm single and that rule doesn't apply to me. I like going to churches that support divorced and widowed women and gender equality.
As someone who grew up in a very religious muslim neighborhood, and also have been quite religious for years, it is now that i begin to really allow myself asking a lot of questions about my religion, i guess i can say i'm having a faith crisis rn?, And just like in the video, my sexuality is always the reason why I'm having doubt in the first place, i used to just accept everything, that i deserve to suffer for my sexuality, that no matter what, religion id always right, you can't question anything about it..but i think I'm kinda fed up with it, but also on the other hand i don't think i can unlearn all things that i have been taught since a very young age, so here i am, still practicing the religion, pray 5 times a day, but also still questioning about everything..
Use your time and energy on yourself, not lifting up a book of literal bs! Focus on fighting this RW facist movement!!!
I think a sinning person who is trying will Insha Allah go to heaven. Don’t just quit and have nothing to live for, abandon also your after life. One thing is for sure we all die and none of these atheists will help you in akhira but your struggle will flourish. It’s not by your amazing deeds that take you to jannah, it’s the mercy of Allah swt. I promise you these random atheists cannot even ensure their own health and cry to god when death approaches them. They are only arrogant because of the blessings of health and time.
@@gingerhickerson5792 you sound like Satan
I don’t know much about Islam, but wasn’t the Quran written by humans? Because if so, the biases and prejudices of the time could’ve easily snuck in. Just remember, there’s nothing wrong with you for your sexuality, it’s a completely natural and good thing.
I relate soo much. I left Islam at the age of 14(I lived in Saudi Arabia at the time btw). I am 25 now and I am so much happier as a result. Trust me, it is possible to unlearn all the brainwashing you endured as a kid. I wish you the best!
This how i feel growing up as a Jeovah Witness and grow up with going to different churches at the same time but i still Believe in God but Not the extreme rules just to get accepted and baptized ☺️✝️🫶🏽🩷✨
Are people leaving organised religion or are they just leaving one particular religion because those are two different things? Are gen z’s leaving and questioning other religions too?
Millenial here. No one I know goes to church that is my age or younger. Nearly everyone I know that does go to church goes as a social activity rather than actually following the religion.
Have a relationship with God. Many Americans are stuck in Churchianity. What is your view on Christians in North Korea or the Middle East being persecuted and killed for their beliefs? Truly we’re so fat and rich in this country that we have said to ourselves, “I need no God, I have money in my bank account. I can go and buy food and sleep peacefully in my bed without thinking twice about God”. If peaceful times make weak men, then peacetimes have also created weak Christians
Of course a person who doesn't go to church would make this statement. People who regularly go will say "Everyone I know goes to church that is my age or younger". It sounds like you just need a different environment.
@@Juwar1974 Why exactly do they need a different environment?
@@nonprogrediestregredi1711 because in a cult like minded individuals sticking closely to eachother improves group think and encourages homogenous behaviour
people are waking up and breaking the psychological shackles of reLIEgion
Sort of. It’s be great if people were leaving religion but supporting modern transgenders is a religion. It has no evidence, it’s filled with nonsensical designations like calling one person them/he, and has a tremendous amount of piteous indignation if anyone dared point out their inconsistency
@@busterofcoviddeniers This will blow your mind, but people exist who believe neither. It isn't either/or
Hello, I wanted to respond to people whose thoughts were confused when they read the comments. . The First Council of Nicaea was convened in Turkey by Roman Emperor Constantine I in 325 AD in order to clarify some issues discussed within Christianity. I
I live in the Iznik region. My ethnicity is Anatolian Celtic and I took compulsory Islamic courses in primary and high school. I also graduated from the history department. I would like to point out that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are the Middle Eastern tales told to us today.
Interestingly, this video seems to equal "organized religion" to "extreme fundamentalist American Christianity," as if all flavors of Christians were the same, and there were no other religions in the world. Also, from a religious point of view, there are very different approaches to LGBTQ+ people, even inside the same religion; all what the video showed was the usual style of the Westboro Baptist church - a minority inside a minority - as if it were the mainstream position of churches. Let's remember, Martin Luther King was a Baptist.
Biased, narrow reporting is not good reporting.