[Apologetics] Seven in 10 Protestant Young Adults Quit Attending Church

[Marty Rothwell]

I wish that could be true.  I just finished reading an article that said
Catholics were virtually indistinguishable from mainstream (secular) thought
when it came to questions of faith and morals.  I'm trying to find the
article now, but it said that the political candidates don't need to vie for
the "Catholic vote" because Catholics will vote the same way that
non-believing people will vote.

Marty
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Art Kelly
Cc: Apologetics Group; Father Peffley; Father Phillips; Father Fessio;
Michele Allen; Catholic Answers; Catholic World News
Subject: Re: [Apologetics] Seven in 10 Protestant Young Adults Quit
Attending Church

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Art Kelly wrote:

> Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 - both
> evangelical and mainline - who went to church
> regularly in high school said they quit attending by
> age 23, according to the survey by LifeWay Research.
>
> And 34% of those said they had not returned, even
> sporadically, by age 30. That means about one in four
> Protestant young people have left the church.

Worse, "evangelical" teens are statistically more likely
to be sexually immoral than their pagan peers.  Google
on "evangelical teen sexual" for lots of articles.

On the other hand, IQ is highly correlated with self control,
for both illicit sex and drug use.  Smart people don't do such stupid
things (except as a form of suicidal despair).  Just a gut feeling,
but I think that all the "dumbing down" evangelical churches have
been doing in an effort to be "relevant" has come back to bite them.

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              Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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