@@apomegranatelove6881 The preaching of morals leads to eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. While it seems like the right thing to do, well... That's the exact reason why woman thought it was a good thing to eat. Her man chose her over God and man fell, got kicked out of the Garden and this whole mess we live in came from that. If you want a godly seed, you have to preach Christ, keeping your eyes and the eyes of those who hear you fixed on him, his words, his acts and the New Covenant that God made with us in his blood. In that covenant, following the Ten Commandments was replaced with a command to hear Jesus instead of the Law and the Prophets and to yield to being led by the Spirit of God. Matthew 17:5 Romans 8 As for teaching prosperity.... God does indeed prefer it when his truth is taught. Prosperity and good health are part and parcel of his gift to those who are Good Ground to his Word... For they are the tenant that receive the salvation of their souls in THIS life, what John called "soul prosperity". Psalms 35:27 Luke 8:15 James 1:19-22 1 Peter 1:6-9 3 John 2 The Church as a whole teaches obedience to Moses with lip service to Jesus and his sacrifice for his brethren.
The real reason is that people are brought up to be anarchists & narcissists. This is a result of leftist doctrine. So is the break up the family. This is why Russia & Eastern Europe are focusing government on increasing marriage rates & promoting families.
I was thinking the same. My siblings were raised with their parents who were devout church goers and are still married. They see church as a joke or performance it seems.
1 Samuel 15 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
I grew up with married parents. I did not leave the church due to my parents relationship. The Church's hypocrisy, corruption and antiquated views lead me to leave the church. I'm happily married for almost 10 years now, only civil marriage.
The Church's views are wise and vibrant. They are based on the Gospel. You should be more concerned about your own imperfections than that of the Church. The Church is the best way for you to complete your soul. Rest assured, the hypocrites, the corrupt and yourself will stand before God in Judgement. If you reject God's mercy, you will be separated from Him for all of eternity.
@@MrSottobanco...you are aware that the church has hidden many illegal businesses as well as pedophiles among its members right? Is okey tp belive in God, bjt if you think that the chirch is an all loving organization to clean souls, you live in delusion and you arebt in condition to lecture anyone.
@@MrSottobanco faith doesnt teach improvements in society, what it does it justifies human actions and crimes as a way to re-affirm itself on its postures of christianity, the doctrination and authority of the human idea and popular mind is too powerful to justify that a "rapist" for example claim himself that god forgave him and he is now "christian" and nobody does anything so later nobody wouldnt know the rest of it because the use of word of god are being used for crime, political power etc. and about "god's judgement" making us to wait for a mystical justice is not solving our modern day problem of today cause it should be made here alive, the idea is to improve civilization from crimes, not keep making crimes and let the faith justify do its job, everybody no matter who or no matter the religion everyone should pay their own consequences and this is being said thanks from the separation between church and state, the importance of secularism is requiered to measure whats fair and whats not. its not meant to disprove god or your faith, its meant to let you improve for it so we can make a better world
I can tell you for a fact that it has nothing to do with people being raised in homes with married parents. People are just sick and tired of the hypocrisy, intolerance and mightier than thou mentality. I saw this first hand growing up at a church that I no longer attend. In fact, most of the kids I went to high school with stopped going too.
So they leave because they are greedy, selfish & narcissistic. They leave because they hear they aren’t the center of the universe after all. Sign of the times.
I have met one ‘Christian’ in my 51 years that exemplifies what Christ was as an example. 99% have been hateful, and fearful animals who don’t follow their models example.
That’s the most depressing thing about societies where being christian has been the norm. Basically all the “Christians” are just acting out the motions and don’t actually understand that they are supposed to be represent Christ Jesus the literal all mighty God who Forsook himself to save man kind. God Bless.
Nowadays, you CANNOT MARRY the modern women !! Not only are they all promiscous and lie behind your back, but they will take the house, the kids, AND CRUSH YOU !!!! The modern women want the traditional benefits in marriage while they interact with six different dating apps, tiktoks and endless social media account flooded with simps that puts them on a pedestal that and make them look like a freakin STAR !!! hell no !!! but no thank you !!! Men do genuinely want to fall in love, have kids, happy wife happy life, but this ain't the 60's anymore !!! You will get cheated on and legally robbed !!!
I’m a practicing Christian and I believe you hit the mail on head head… Christians are scared. Humans…are scared. We die and there’s a multitude of ideas of what happens. Some say we just stop existing. Some say we come back in new bodies. Some say we go to heaven/hell. Some don’t believe in hell. Christians are humans just like everyone else and they can be just as scared, angry, mean, and selfish as any atheist can be. I’ve found that we’re all humans trying to figure out this life that has no answers or clear direction. When you wake up and you have no path laid out for you and are free to do whatever you want. Is that freedom or a punishment? That’s a question I’ve thought of and have pondered on occasion. Christians are just as human as anyone else.
I agree. I believe in Jesus myself but I do see a bit of snarky wittiness and a bizarre bluntness from a lot people who call themselves Christian. These don’t really help sell Jesus to people.
Yes, the problem must be the erosion of marriage, not the failure of Christians in general when it comes to conveying the value of Christianity. I gave up on religion way back in 2007, and I’ve found that outsiders like ex-Christian comedians, spiritual teachers of Eastern traditions, and unconventional Christians are better at making Christianity make sense than diehard, traditional Christians, who value quantity of seats filled over the quality of the message that’s presented.
@@I_Love_Chinese_Food an after life existing or not has is not evidence for or against your faith. American Christianity is based on blasphemous theology more concerned with status quo, markets and making sure you have your “heaven pass” to get into the afterlife. I used to believe there must be good pillars underneath what I and so many other westerners believed but there simply is not. If you disagree, go find a deconstruction reddit thread and if you’re heart is open you’ll leave that encounter with your first “crack” revealed in your foundation.
@@I_Love_Chinese_Food so you're saying don't be a good person because it doesn't matter in God's eyes. How about love thy neighbor as thyself pretty sure that's sound advice.
@@I_Love_Chinese_Food No it doesn't. You're reading the Bible with a literalist perspective and completely miss the point of the entire faith tradition. But even if it did say that, why do you think I'd care? The internet is PUBLIC, meaning not everyone here is a white american christian. Do you realize that??
This entire video is a textbook example of “correlation does not equal causation.” There are so many other factors that this video completely ignores, such as the 2002 Boston archdiocese sex scandal. Turning a blind eye to reality (such as what’s being done in this video) is the main reason why churches are failing at keeping attendance.
I wrote a similar comment then saw yours: could it be that people are leaving churches because they have concluded that religions avoid difficult questions?
The issue is that something inherited is not appreciated much like something achieved. The youth of today woke up on Sundays or Saturdays and were sent to church and it became nothing more than a routine. We didn’t choose God, God was chosen for us. On the other hand, if you were not a Christian but you came to be believe, that’s an entirely different story. In that scenario you have your reasons for coming. In the first scenario you didn’t do it out of your own will, therefore you were never in it in the first place. Faith isn’t inherited through DNA but through personal experiences. If you’ve never experienced it then you have nothing tying you to it. Also, the whole concept of walking by faith is weak. You can use it for any religion or belief. That by itself is a self inflicted wound that doesn’t work. It also hammers in the concept that you can only follow God if he chooses it, therefore anyone who has not experienced God nor is unable to simply believe by faith has not been chosen, therefore even if they try Christianity they will not be saved. Not everyone who says Lord Lord will enter into the kingdom
@@denniskwarteng5858 There are so many factors that correlate with the inverse exponential decline in church attendance. People can fact check answers on their own now. They don’t have to just take their pastors word saying the earth is a few thousand years old. Not only do they see the evidence for evolution that contradicts biblical narratives, but they can also see the evolution of god from a local deity who can sometimes (but not always) control the outcomes of wars, to an overarching worldwide deity (without image or visual representation), to a triune deity with a human form and regularly represented in paintings and sculptures (ie graven images). Opposing opinions are so much more readily available now (eg bart erhman, Israel Finkelstein, Jews for Judaism). The hypocrisy of people like Jerry Falwell and sexual scandals and coverups within the church haven’t been a good look as of late either. The one thing the church still has going for it is community support in an increasingly disconnected world which lacks a lot of social safety nets and mental health resources.
@@TheWumps In my church community, I never really hear the reasons why people leaving the church being tied to those you proposed. Like you said though, there are many different factors. For some, it is tied to the reasons you proposed, but for the people I have interacted with, the reasons I gave previously are more prominent. I will say though, using hypocrisy as a reason to leave the church doesn't seem viable to me. In any situation where humans are involved, there will be human error. If you look up to any person in general you are bound to be disappointed at some point. I personally don't look up to anyone, not because I choose not to, but because it doesn't really work for me. The coverups too, that one is an institutional issue, not a religious issue. I think both of these issues can be fixed by asking whether you are a church goer or a Christian. If you are a Christian, you don't believe God exists since beliefs can be false. Rather, you know he exists and will decide whether you want to follow him or not and can view those two issues as human error and not having to do with God himself.
The church is in denial. It's not about married couples, it's the obvious fact that even 13 year old kids are smart enough to figure out that's it's a means of controlling people and thoughts and prayers are useless.
I agree for I believe it’s primarily social influence from friends/family that keep teens from attending, teenage rebellion (because it’s not just Christianity this happens in) and lastly, hypocrisy. A lot of evangelists (especially televangelists) have damaged the message of Jesus by doing the “do what I say but not as I do” trope.
Its like an old man who refuses to accept that the world has evolved, so he throws a tantrum against the youth for not following his command as peolpe have done through History.
My parents didn't have a divorce, but they took their anger & hurt on me & my siblings. They abused us physically & verbally. My parents were good & kind in the presence of people, especially nuns & priests, & when we were at church. But most of the times, & when we were not in church, our parents were jerks. They put on a facade. Sometimes, they were sincerely good & kind to us.
Every single person is traumatized by what their parents did or didn't do. At least yours cared enough to pretend for you guys, they didn't bail and were still alive.
Nowadays, you CANNOT MARRY the modern women !! Not only are they all promiscous and lie behind your back, but they will take the house, the kids, AND CRUSH YOU !!!! The modern women want the traditional benefits in marriage while they interact with six different dating apps, tiktoks and endless social media account flooded with simps that puts them on a pedestal that and make them look like a freakin STAR !!! hell no !!! but no thank you !!! Men do genuinely want to fall in love, have kids, happy wife happy life, but this ain't the 60's anymore !!! You will get cheated on and legally robbed !!!
@God entered into my body, as a body! my same size! Are you serious? May God not hold this blasphemy against you. You are blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. Pray He forgives you in Jesus' name!
They aren't leaving the faith, that's just how certain folks spin it. They are exiting the country club POSING as a church, not " the church", not " the faith".
HERE is Our Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Well actually they're leaving the faith as well which is great because religion has done very little good in this world. In fact, I think it's the number one killer in all of humanity. Oh wait! No... God was the number one killer of all of humanity when he drowned everybody during that flood. Including children and babies... Because they wouldn't obey him. sounds like a serious ego problem.
@@Praise___YaH The New Testament writers present Jesus Christ as the One who died, not the Father. Since Jesus was God incarnate, both fully man and fully God.
This is horribly out of touch with why we are leaving. My parents had (and still have) a fantastic marriage. The reason so many of us are leaving is because Christianity (and religion as a whole) is filled with claims that cannot be supported by evidence. This worked fine for churches when information was not as easily available, but now I can literally just google my exact question and read tangible proof that the claims I am hearing in church are wrong. Further, the behavior of Christians and other religions on the national scale has gotten so hypocritical and embarrassing to watch that I absolutely do not want my name to be associated with that. In conversations I've had with other friends who left the church as well (most of whom also come from strong marriages), they have generally agreed that these are the primary motivations for them as well. Obviously, this is anecdotal, but I would bet good money that these items would rank far higher in polling than "mArRiAgE!!!11!!1!"
This is exactly correct. Islamic nations have figured this out, too, which is why they restrict access to the internet, maintaining a low-information environment. I was regularly exposed to religion as a child by Christian grandparents. Their social club nondenominational church was quite conservative and very cliquey. I loved to read and did so voraciously, exposing myself to lots of different ideas. The church’s youth minister couldn’t answer and was quite disturbed by the innocent but pertinent and serious questions I asked in Sunday School. I didn’t go back after I reached the age of reason (about 12 for me), except to appease my grandparents for certain events. This was all pre-internet, but I am glad so many kids have that additional resource to seek out evidence, find answers and develop critical thinking skills today.
for me it was not being able to reconcile the bible as the word of god. They claim its the word of god. But we know that the gospels were written 40-100 years after the fact by anonymous writers who werent the people named. We know that in 325 the emperor of Rome gathered all the early church leaders and made them decide what goes in the bible amd what doesnt. So this is all translations of translations written by third parties who never witnessed the events themselves written down as much as 100 years after the fact. there is no way something so unreliable would ve taken seriously today. And if god is omnipotent why did he choose the single dumbest and unreliable way imaginable to send his word? If its the word of god why does no one seem to agree on what it means? If its the arbiter of absolute morality why is it today theres things we consider immoral that are just fine in the bible? It all reeks of bullshit.
Indeed, correlation does not = causation. I left Christianity when I was 41, after being married and having kids. Anecdotally, my parents are still married, but non-religious, took us to church when we were younger and I took to Christianity deeply when a middle schooler. My wife is still a Christian, raising the kids in that faith and may or may not choose to make it their own when they are old enough to actually make that informed decision. I have no interest in swaying their indoctrination, other than hopefully instilling an ability to think critically. But @Infinity is probably getting more to the root cause of why people leave the faith. Not because of the collapse of the "normative" family structure, but more simply; we are no longer convinced there is a God. Easy to blame on any and all cultural shifts one doesn't care for and makes sense since we have built moral systems around appeals to things outside of our humanity. But we're done hiding behind this facade. Does is make things more messy and cause problems not to have a great all everything deity to unify everything, heck yeah, but this is the reality we live in. To try and resurrect (pun intended) faith is only going to get demonstrably more difficult as god-explanations turn out to be more and more vapid.
this is so true, i don't like how they haven't asked ppl who have actually left why they did. Instead they choose to extrapolate data and jump to conclusions.
@@ardbegthequestion I have to say that I disagree. The reasons why people leave are very complex but rarely do I find intellectual hangups to be the root cause. The reason I am a Christian fundamentally is because, 2,000 years ago, Someone died for me. You and I had no say in that. My upbringing and personal spiritual encounter with Christ as a teenager is secondary to that fundamental claim. That claim, interestingly denied by Muslims, is supported by history and I would argue by our deepest "mystical" intuition. If false, the mere fact that all of human history is dated around a crucified Jewish peasant turned Messiah candidate is astounding. It is precisely voracious reading that has strengthened my faith and opened my eyes to the holes in the Western modern rationalist and postmodern flavors of thought. I see in part why the Church counterintuitively is growing fastest in the areas of heavy persecution, such as in China and Iran. The documented supernatural events - visions of Christ and miracles - are abundant in these places of childlike faith. The issue is that we in the West do not appreciate or understand the message and miracle of the Bible, let alone the Person of Christ. We have grown arrogant in the name of "progress", either denying our spiritual needs or seeking to meet them on our own terms - creating gods in our broken image. The Living waters of Christ which have shaped so much of the West have become the stagnant waters of Christendom. Which of course doesn't satisfy.
Yup, you hit the nail on the head. 1 Samuel 15 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
I consciously left the Catholic faith behind at age 7 even while forced for another 11 years to go to church and Catholic school in a married household, because I recognized that Divine Love, compassion and an understanding for how how the Universe works is lost in that religion.
@@ding9633 For you maybe cuz you like all who leave the faith DON,T wanna follow the rules. It's not a faith for wimps or people who have low self esteem, it takes a strong person to follow HER laws and deny the world and all its empty promises which lead the bulk of humanity to hell .
I’m gen x. I left because I found out all the lies I had been told and about all the deception and money spent on coverups. I have been married for 14 years, have one child. Would have liked more but infertility put a stop to that option. I come from baby boomers. They had 3 children. 2 of the 3 have left the church we grew up in. The difference between my upbringing and my child’s, we give him an option for what he believes in. Besides me leaving the religion I grew up in, and having less children, that is the only difference. I never had choices. I was forced and my child is not and doesn’t believe in religion. So your statistics can say one thing, but reality says another.
seems to be a common reason for people bailing on the church if only they would spend those billions on being good people and fixing their corruption maybe people would return to the faith
@@reform-revolution Asking this politely, but do you think people would actually return? Knowing that people have found the truth about the religion, people have found out that the Book of Mormon is made up, that many of the things that good Mormon people are doing isn’t found anywhere in the BOM, like temple marriages, do you think people would really return? Or that the nephrite’s and lamenites weren’t real? I couldn’t be paid to go back. Not knowing what I know now. But maybe that’s just me. But I truly am curious if you think people would go back. And I promise it’s not in a judgmental way.
@@racheld7528 in the short term ..... no over the next 2-3 gens .... probably they still wouldnt be as fanatical as this nubs want but they would have more reasons to be part of the faith if it was actively practicing what it preaches
@@racheld7528 I understand. I've had people say mean things to me for no reason and honestly it just makes me cry (if and when it happens). One was a guy pretending to be a street preacher, but the thing is it doesn't work like that. Either he's led by the Holy Spirit to be a preacher, or he's not. He couldn't force himself into those shoes. Even if he hadn't been cruel and ungodly it would still not work like that, where he can fabricate God's will for his life. He left me with no hope and made horrible things up that the Bible doesn't even say. Anyone can add or take away from the Bible, unfortunately. It's just that people sometimes don't listen to God through the Holy Spirit sometimes, let alone their consciences. That kind of person will always seem to have a chunk missing. You can't force books into the Bible that don't exist. You can't pretend to be a prophet that has visions if you're not one. Nobody knows when the world will end except God. You can't tell people whether God will help someone or not, as though you're some kind of authority. You hear it all in the wrong places, by mostly bitter angry people who don't properly listen to God and never considered that prayer involves listening as well as talking, instead of ignoring God's voice in favor of their own plans. I've even met people thinking that they can all speak in tongues on command when it's just gibberish and you can't fabricate spiritual gifts God didn't give you. People can be deceptive. But that's why we should trust Him and not let other people determine what He will or won't do or say.
Or maybe we’re leaving because we just want to pick their lifestyles. The idea that faith is an objectively good thing is just stupid. Some people just live their lives differently than others.
Just because they live it differently doesn't mean they are living righteous. This explains all the mental illness, drug use ,and suicide. Turning your back on God you live in darkness. Jesus leads the lost from the darkness into enteral light.
1 Samuel 15 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
@@LisaAnn777 Are you referring to God enacting his wrath that he forewarned 700 year earlier? Those people were literally child sacrificers who had a culture where they would just publicly gang rape people.
As a Catholic, I want to apologize on behalf of the Church for all of you here in the comments who were hurt by abuse and cover-ups. Please know that we're working to weed out the predators and make sure that all adults have youth protection training to prevent the next generation from being hurt.
You guys "weed them out" the same way sea world does when an orca kills a trainer which is sending it to a different location without giving background info. Also when you guys were in power you tortured people.
Hilariously off. Why would the “cultural revolution” that started in the 2000s be a decline in marriage, instead of, oh, I don’t know… the fucking INTERNET? Like, an unprecedented time in the spread and collection of knowledge and truth, that seriously didn’t come to mind? I know many people offhand who grew up in religious households who simply just, became skeptical, educated themselves, and lost their faith. Isn’t giving people all sides of a story, and then letting them form their own opinion, only fair?
@@mikemcnamara3777What don't I understand? That she's a hypocrite? If being a wife and mother was so important to her she could've done both while still maintaining a strong religious devotion to her God.
That’s not true, did you not visit you mom and dad. Would they be okay with, well Mom, just remember you are in my heart. I highly doubt it! God is our father in Heaven, He expects us to come to him and make an effort. What you said is a made up phrase said by lazy Catholics. Sorry but it’s the truth. God Bless
If not the Church, please tell me where you would find the Lord? In schools, the entertainment industry such as music, television and cinema perhaps?The streets or loud voices spewing specious arguments in favor of hedonist, humanistic behavior where everyone finds their own truth and every immoral behavior can be rationalized away. Hey, if a six year-old boy wishes he was a girl, the parents rush in and castrate him and all is well with the world! If there is no Church with a teaching authority (Magisterium) going back to the time of Christ and with the divine authority to prescribe the way, the truth and the life, then where do you go? Or do you figure it out yourself as the demonic forces of this evil world convince you that you are worthy of following your own path and " bringing Him" to your world! Good luck with that folks! But be prepared to hear the words : " Get thee away from me, for I never knew you"!
There's so many "Christians" that are full of anger. The world is not as they believe it should be so they rush to legislate their will upon others. Love, compassion, and understanding is how you will reach the masses. Not with your anger and your news Nation talking points.
A homeschooled kid like me left the church my dad pastored when I was 16 because I got tired of taking prescription amphetamines, taking communion with gossiping abusive predatory people, getting lied to, and getting coerced (processed) by the 10% cartels groomers for/into volunteer/missionary work. My dad's been a pastor for a 10% franchise for 50 years. I had to see a therapist for most of 20 years. Add in the wasted cost of Bible college, the 35 years of preventable pills, doctors, and side effects....
Dude, it's stories like this that makes me literally glad that I was raised in a cult. They never did anything wrong like this, they were just misguided. The biggest difference from my experience and the normal church kids experience was the level of fear. Holy crap, christians might not fear death but damn do they fear everything else. It makes me really sad because these people had the truth and yet lived like the worst people. The level of abuse I have heard about is insane. Everything from having the hell scared out of them, to literally having exorcisms attempted on them. Funny story, every christmas and easter we would have three times the number of people come to our (non-christian) church. A large part of the population felt that they were obligated to come to church, but would do it the minimum number of times which was easter and christmas. It was stupid as hell because we werent even a christian church, but the idiots never figured that out. What the speaker of this video is saying stupid. This isn't a recent problem with them. This is a complete rot in their whole way of doing things for the past (at least) fifty years. It's just now that they get to see the rewards for the way they behaved and what they did. They used the idea of jesus to push whatever agenda they had. Even the speaker is suggesting that the bible and jesus were about morals and the right way of living, and that not doing those things has caused people to leave. They need to start teaching the real jesus here. Honestly, if it wasn't for me literally growing up in a cult, I would not be a christian right now because I would have grown up with all the bullshit you have and ran away probibly a lot sooner then you did.
@@james73686 I didn't run away. I left the church. The church still intruded on divorce and custody issues a decade later. I out lived one of my kids because not all of us survive church involvement in state courts.
@@jasonworks1454 I didn't mean to imply you ran away. It's just that the stories that you guys tell, what happened is just crazy. How the hell does the church get involved in the court?
@@james73686 you said you would have run away sooner then I did. At any rate.. my x's family went to church with the prosecutor, and the federally deputized law enforcement officer/preacher I used to share bunk beds with and my parents thought I didn't deserve my kids because I would take the kids to church if they wanted to go. They thought someone else deserved my kids more because they would make them go, and told me so a few times. And as far as church influenced goes... They almost all are. That why the courts and health care systems are broken. Both and most of the mental health service providers are owned or run by the Catholic Church. Gaslighting and miracle faking are endemic.
You will know them by their fruit. I see no reason to believe religious people have superior morals based on the fruit I see them bear. I grew up seeing far better behavior from the athiest I knew than the church goers I was forced to attend with.
Our society has undergone massive changes in the last 100 years, so many things are following a similar trend, to Cherry pick one of them and say “AHA!! I’ve discovered the reason people are leaving religion!” Is beyond absurd, and I hope people can see through this nonsense
And perfect encapsulation of why churches keep failing - they continue to project what they think is the problem instead of listening to the people who left.
Excellent answer. Lower marriage rate may have something to do, but it can't be the one and only cause. Much of the decline of the Catholic communities, IMHO, are due to an appalling education in the faith coming down from previous generations. Remember, Catholics read less their bibles than Protestants because the clergy wasn't super enthusiastic about laymen reading too much, or because said laity was so poor their couldn't even afford a Bible. I'd say it speaks volumes about a cultural factor with long termed consequences.
Hm, well -- you make an interesting point, but I'd respectfully differ. From my point of view as a Christian, a person's understanding of the faith (and ergo their willingness to embrace it) is very strongly tied to their experience of how that same faith translates into well-ordered relationships with the people around us. Our relationships with our parents, spouses, and potential romantic prospects are on the very top of the list. If a person isn't cradled in a social context in which the love of God and love of neighbor is genuinely shaping our lives, that person will probably be more vulnerable to losing their faith than someone who does have an actively Christian family to rely on, all other things being equal. Of course, there are other contributing factors, such as how Christianity and Catholicism are being actively suppressed and misrepresented in the media on such an unprecedented scale, and so on, but I believe that a fairly persuasive correlation has been established between the health of a person's family and the health of their faith. While correlation doesn't equal causation, it can still emerge as a factor to consider on a case-by-case basis, and I believe in this particular case the association is relevant. :)
Maybe you are right but the truth is that I am a baby boomer and I grew up with married parents but the truth is that the Church in general has proven to be unworthy of what they preach… they are more interested in money, power, worldly goods, and they have lost their salt because of these issues…they worry about what you believe instead of being worry about what goes on in life…they have lost touch with life… I left the church but I still believe but I no longer belong to a place where life passes by and all they want is a club…while many people struggle with bills, raising their kids with 2 or 3 jobs. The church is not teaching people to turn their backs on this world on the contrary the church embraces this world and it’s worldly goods. You wonder why young kids don’t go to church anymore??? Think twice…
Agreed. For me, it’s the hypocrisy and the acceptance of political garbage that the Bible specifically says is wrong. They’re churches of the world, not of God.
If you experience that in the church you go to I would advise you to be smart enough to leave and find a building where the true church gathers. I also would keep in mind the words of Abraham Lincoln. “If you’re looking for bad in a man (or an individual), you will surely find it. If one is a Christian, a follower of Christ, one should realize that all humans make mistakes. Only God is perfect. If you are looking for perfection on earth you were not going to find it. I would encourage you to stay And pray ( True prayer is communication with God, not memorized words) talk to God and tell him what’s going on and how you feel and ask him to intervene by his Holy Spirit. You can be used to change what is wrong in love. Your other option is to leave and find a place where faithful Christians meet. Remember, it is not a religion that will save you. It is not Catholicism, it is not protestant, Episcopalian, non-denominational church that will save you. YOU must have a relationship with your Savior, Jesus Christ. How do you do that? You can spend time reading the Bible. As many times as you read it, you will get new revelation. Memorize or remember scriptures. These scriptures are your weapon against the enemy. “ For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, But principalities, against powers, Against the rulers of darkness of this world, Against spiritual wickedness in high places. “Ephesians 6: 12
@@FlowersfromNan I have never had the purpose of looking for the bad in people…I just tell you that I have found more love and understanding from unbelievers that from believers. I went through many experiences. I am not a youngster, I have lived for almost 60 years…most church people are not following Christ… they are following goods, riches, fortune, and they pride themselves of being successful…if Jesus would come back now he would not visit any church at all. He said my Kingdom is not of this earth… but really who understand this??? The churches have been trying to make God and Jesus work for them. When it is the other way around. When you tell them you cannot manipulate God they leave you on a side or they don’t espanto to talk to you…I am sorry to say that this is a very common problem….either you think like them or they get rid of you…
I left the church because I felt like an outcast and the church condemned the LGBTQ community. I’m gay and trans. They have actual written rules about it. I repressed my identity for so long because of their harmful teachings. I still struggle with it to this day. Just remember, if the church tells you that you’re a sinner for your identity, you don’t have to listen to them. There are people who will be there for you, and you’re wonderful just the way you are!
HERE is The Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
The Bible condemns anything outside the Biblical definition of marriage: between one man and one woman; Jesus even confirmed this. The only exception is to allow people who were gay, who turned from it, back into the church. That is how Paul and the others taught when it came to the structure of the church. This is repentance and forgiveness as Jesus preached.
I think marriage has nothing to do with the decline of faith. I believe it has to do with the easier communication of information. Notice how the graphs drastically change around the year 2000, which is when access to the internet really started to take off. So teenagers instead of asking the priest or their parents questions about controversial topics and getting the religious answer, they could hop onto the internet and get answers from every point of view and why other views are wrong and then decide for themselves.
And it has nothing to do with the awful people in political and social leadership that do and say awful and egregiously unkind and unloving things in the name of Christianity. It has nothing to do with the Catholic Church protecting pedophiles…..Marriage may have some cause but WE are ultimately the reason. People look at us and think: “If that’s a Christian, I can do bad all by myself”
Not just the Catholic leadership protecting pedophiles and sexual abusers. The Southern Baptists are in hot water with the DOJ for covering up hundreds of cases of rapists and pedophiles among their clergy, too. The way the Church builds up “ordination,” making some people more “holy” than others, putting them in the spotlight, creating impossible expectations of them, is just overall, extremely unhealthy. Always has been. I was in ministry for years, and I saw A. people who could handle the stresses of ministry and create functional congregations-almost always at costs to themselves and their families, B. people who did not know how to handle the stresses of parish ministry who deteriorated and took out their pain on other people in all sorts of crazy ways, including sexual misconduct (not an excuse, they’re still culpable), C. the sinister people who get into this looking for victims. There are also a lot of D.’s people who recognise how unhealthy and boundary-less parish ministry is and get the hell out. A great film about the B. people is Ethan Hawke’s “First Reformed.” The very structure of the Church creates mental illness.
“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable,” Brennan Manning. This statement is absolutely true!
I don’t know you but I know that a lot of people walk away because the people in the church may have hurt them. I would really like to encourage you to read the Bible and try to get a good relationship with God and get to know him. I would reccomend that but I can’t tell you how to live your life and I’m so sorry if anyone from the church or anyone has hurt you.
@@jacobjackson1212 Thank you for the kind words! The church did harm me, mentally! Southern Baptist churches should be closed down. I still gave a relationship with God but not the church. 🙏🏻
Guys, HERE is The Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
Its because people are more educated now and dont believe in a imaginary man in the sky who watches everything you do hears everything you say and if you sin he will send you to hell! But he "loves you" haha
umm… or could it be that young people who are told repeatedly that their parents live in sin, that their family and/or friends are ‘bad’ in so many ways, get sick and tired of it, and just leave? “Why can’t the church keep making people feel bad and expect them to stay?” Very difficult question indeed!
What Bible teaching congregation are you talking about? I've been a Born Again believer and doctrinal Bible teacher for nearly 40 years and I have never witnessed a congregation like most of you are describing. The ones I am speaking of are all Southern Baptist congregations and the lack of depth in the teaching of God's breathed words notwithstanding, they were all loving, family towards all, considerate to the Elderly, some were easily deceived by Pastors where a congregation had poor teachings by poor and unknowledgeable teachers, but none were the kind described by you and others. The people who have the most problems with churches usually have problems with what God's breathed words teach, homosexuality for example (which is sinful behavior, every homosexual knows this as they claim God is a forgiving God, this being in the context of the practice of their life as gay) including a real lack of knowledge and or understanding of scripture altogether. Most young and older people leave the faith because they are either unbelievers or not taught scripture properly, in the clear language and plain context of the scriptures from the beginning. I've heard complaint after complaint in these comments, but nothing from the New Testament Epistles, which are specifically addressing the Body of Christ under grace not law for righteousness. Most complaints are based on feelings from or towards something or someone. Believers can truly encounter bad behavior from professing believers, but primarily speaking, the problem is Biblical passages not known, understood, read, studied, believed or discussed and lived by, whether one has one or both parents, or foster parents, etc. There is nearly no discussion had by most who turn away from "the" faith supposedly. If one is a believer in Jesus Christ one is born again and cannot just walk away, he or she has a Heavenly Father and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit and that person is being disobedient, not unborn. God will deal with that child of his per his word. God's breathed words addressing the Body of Christ under grace in the New Testament Epistles explains this and more. We are also to love one another with a fervent love, we are to confess sin if we sin and God will forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (see 1 John 1:9) All of this and much more is clearly taught to the born again believers in Christ. I hope this helps some who are reading the comments. Every believer and unbelievers will be held accountable by God according to his breathed words. Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and he was buried and he was raised from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures and was seen by more than 500 witnesses. If you believe in Jesus Christ you have forgiveness of sin and you have salvation, eternal life, and all that obtains under grace, much of which is explained in the New Testament Epistles specifically addressing the Body of Christ under grace not law for righteousness.
What truly irks me about this is that it acts as if the church is an essential part of life, and that it isn’t simply someone’s belief changes that cause them to leave, it must be another factor that causes them to lose the faith that every human being should have. The video enforces very JW like views. Modern religion is a cult.
Agreed. I believe it is as you’ve stated: it’s because people’s views change, either because they notice something is wrong with the church, which is legitimate, or it’s their own desire that get in the way. Either way, I don’t believe church attendance entirely hinges upon wether you’re married or not.
I disagree with this. I make a great living! It’s just so much fun to be able to do anything I want without having to worry about a child, or the financial responsibility that comes with being a parent.
@@clintriggen3554 actually. I totally agree with you. I think I was trying to articulate that money and god don’t really go hand in hand. Some of the richest people on the planet don’t believe in god and so do some of the poorest. Also some of the most devout are from third world countries. So yes, great point.
I'll tell you why I stopped attending your church. 1. You told me my mother's divorce from her drug-addicted ex-husband was wrong. 2. You told me, that my being mixed race was wrong. 3. You told my mother her racism was valid. 4. Your congregation told me that being LGBTQ+ was wrong. You told me my mother's mental illness, my abuse, and my lack of a family support system due to my mother's mental illness were wrong, and my mother's racism was correct. That all my suffering was imposed by my sexuality. 5. You attempted to heal my mother's mental illness with prayer while validating her racism. 6. You did all the things prior in this list. 7. you claimed to be a progressive rock church but didn't stand by your values and filled your wallets.
I couldn’t agree more, the church always stresses how important marriage is but they don’t lift a finger when it comes to making it happen among their congregants. Especially when considering the generational challenges.
I am one of three children raised in a household of a devout Catholic father and a mother who faithfully followed my father’s lead as spiritual head of the house despite not being Catholic herself. We took the faith seriously, lived out its teachings, and were taught that the values displayed by the family were rooted in the faith. All three of us kids are stronger in our faith today than at any point in our childhoods. Two of us our married and have 7 kids between our two families. A strong marriage and faithful adherence to the teaching is strongest way to pass along the faith to children.
@@gbower44Amen I agree though I'm not a good catholic I'll always stand for it. Muslims and jews and other religions wear their outfits identifying their faith. I always wear my rosary to identify I'm catholic. I must pray it everyday which sometimes I don't. I must I remember a pope I believes Pope pios said give me an army praying the rosary and I will conquer the world.Amen please pray for me God bless you and your love ones
No people don't want to go to church and have the pastor's. Yell at them and the pastor's call Trump Christ Jesus who DIED on the golden cross in Texas twenty five years ago. That's why people stop going and asking money to help God Trump, that's why.
I'm a single canceled mom. It was Hard!! No one ever walked alongside us. I had 5 brothers who NEVER stepped up to the plate. Parents deceased. She is gone, doing her own thing. Young adult children abandoning their parents is at epidemic levels in this country. No one speaks of it. We were church attenders throughout. She went to Christian schools thru 12th grade. It can't ALL be My fault. Maybe the churches could have some programs, effective ones, for single moms and dads. No extra money, ever. Perhaps you invite us on your vacation, Sunday meal or periodic picnic so we both can experience 'family life'. I fault others in addition to myself.
I am a gay man. I left the Church because it was not a healthy environment for me. Hanging around people who think you are "disordered" is not healthy.
I left because of how I felt ostracized because I was different . Some churches are not friendly to lgbt members . Churches should be nicer to people that are different . Then they would feel comfortable going. Not saying you have to agree with my lifestyle just treat me with respect like you treat your friends
@@larrymcabee9379 you are exactly the reason why people stop going to church. You’re exactly like the Catholic Church imprisoning Galileo Galilei and stating that the sun spins around earth and not the other way around because it’s their interpretation of the Bible where Joshua orders the sun to stop. I am a homosexual and I know for a fact that I NEVER chose to be one and with a woman it would NEVER work for me. Therefore, whatever Paul wrote in the Bible either means something else (which in fact it does because it refers to male prostitutes) or it is pure bullshit. Since you insist that it refers to homosexuality, therefore it has to be bullshit because evidence contradicts your book. Therefore nobody who is a decent human being and a homosexual or anyone else with a little bit of brain left will choose to follow your religion and come to church. You preach bullshit and you’re simply hateful and intolerant. Good job on smearing so much crap on Jesus who preached salvation, forgiveness, and reconciliation instead.
@@joseluisromerojr8887 I think the OP is right. Jesus was a friend to sinners. Jesus did not approve of sin but sinners knew he loved them. The house of God should be welcoming and loving to all people. Then it is through love that we help people live a life worthy of the calling of Christ. The Bible teaches that love is our greatest witness. Again, real love doesn’t mean agreement with everything someone is doing, and we must not ignore sin. Real love gives us all the space and encouragement to grow. The OP is absolutely right.
Correlation does not prove causation. Thus, the decline in marriage and church attendance may be unrelated. To investigate causation for church attendance, Edify should analyze the reasons those leaving churches give for leaving.
Numbers 31:17-18 King James Version 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. It's stuff like this that is causing Judeo-Christian beleifs to die out. They did it to themselves with their own scripture. Read this passage and imagine if it was one of your daughters that was taken, and your son's killed on the spot. bet you wouldn't be still saying god is "perfect" Or maybe Christians wouldn't care, idk. They have surprised me with their hate many times. And they think they are morally superior to us savage atheist heathens.
That's a good point. While children leaving the faith later most likely wouldn't be a cause for parents splitting up in the past, That's no reason to believe that both phenomena could be caused by a mutual issue. However, it has been extensively studied that family is the largest influence on the beliefs of children. And so if a family becomes fragmented, broken, and and less capable of teaching its core beliefs, then those beliefs would be open to influence by the next greatest factors: school, entertainment, friends, and news, 3/4s of which are currently monopolized by the atheistic leftist factions of our country. Stands to reason.
Nowadays, you CANNOT MARRY the modern women !! Not only are they all promiscous and lie behind your back, but they will take the house, the kids, AND CRUSH YOU !!!! The modern women want the traditional benefits in marriage while they interact with six different dating apps, tiktoks and endless social media account flooded with simps that puts them on a pedestal that and make them look like a freakin STAR !!! hell no !!! but no thank you !!! Men do genuinely want to fall in love, have kids, happy wife happy life, but this ain't the 60's anymore !!! You will get cheated on and legally robbed !!!
HERE is Our Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
The reason people are leaving the faith is a realization that there is no invisible, silent, sky daddy with a talking snake. people are no longer victims of indoctrination. They are learning science and can think critically! Life is perfectly fine without a magical wizard watching over you.
HERE is The Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
Our little Church is growing! A couple months ago a drunk came in. We finally figured out he hung out at the bar down the street. Some of the men went to the bar to talk to this man and invite him back. He brought a whole bunch of ppl. We had 30 ppl at the alter on Sunday. And the phones are ringing. God is moving. We've got a small window of time here I think. Go bring them in!
@@TaraJanes57 This is definitely a "flaw in the system". If this is supposed to be an "open forum" where different thoughts & ideas can be discussed & debated, allowing "editing" and even worse, "deleting" shouldn't happen.
This kind of video is most likely the reason i fell into a toxic relationship with a “christian” woman trying to forge a genuine relationship with deceit. She put marriage above all else. The engagement ultimately failed leaving me crushed. Many skeptics believe in commitment to a partner. And why is a lack of faith in one worldview so devastating to the world? Maybe in the age of information at our fingertips children are able to access ideas they hadn’t at an earlier age before.
Ecumenical churches... now I understand this video. No body get away of Crist if they never get a real relationship. Ecumenical are fixing what they destroyed in centuries pretending being the Crist's church.... You leave the church because you never belong to to the Crist's family...
You're probably better off. Some of your biggest whores are in the clubs on Saturday and church on Sunday. You find you about two or three good women w/o a whole bunch of baggage. Look at the dynamic of their 👪. What type of relationship does she have with her mother and father then sir you'll know what you're dealing with. Marriage is for suckers. 90% of divorce you lose.
@@pjj0hns0n people were obey what they believed was right or thought was what they should be doing by the church or society that raised them rather than what was truly right.
Along with the sexual revolution came freedom of choice within a marriage. Freedom for the abused, neglected, overworked, under appreciated, etc to find real happiness. Maybe if churches focused more on equality and self-fulfillment and enlightenment that might make a difference. Also, you are specifically forgetting all of the sexual abuses that started coming out around that time. The churches need to reinvent and re-organize their structure so they don’t perpetuate & protect predators. What kind of leadership does that? Certainly not a divine one. Then you have more information & less group think. No, I think the decline is in the bigotry, protecting predators, misogyny & control & fear mongering & people are done with it. How basic, to lay all that down to, “Just get married & stay married!” Fix the organizations to be divine & to be full of light & hope & inclusion & love.
I agree and I think the Church recognizes that they botched the handling of sex abuse in the Church. So many organizations did. I think God will judge them more harshly than lay people. The Church IS trying to correct itself. Let's try and forgive them as we are forgiven. They were truly embarrassed and ashamed and wanted to hide it all like Family might do. I believe they have learned from their mistakes and their mistakes are not depriving me of my faith. I will let God take care of them.
With all the negativity displayed in response to this video I find it very interesting that these people took the time to listen. I’m a catholic revert more out of laziness. So food for thought.. when I realized my children were not learning their faith in a catholic school or high school ccd I became a catechist. When you have to take the time to dig deeper into church teaching so you answer questions correctly, you come to find out how beautiful our Lord’s/church teaching is. So all I want to say is God loves each of you and we all need God’s mercy.
In addition, youth being in the church doesn’t mean they haven’t left the faith. I left the Christian faith quite sometime ago and still attend for 2 reasons: 1. My parents force me 2. I do enjoy hearing other people’s views
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@@I_Love_Chinese_Food not sure! I’m alright to say I don’t know for now. I haven’t found anything to suggest the lack of an afterlife, but haven’t found evidence that there is one personally. If either ever comes along I am open to changing my views. I do believe I have found holes in the bible, which led me out of the faith.
@@dnzswithwombats Don’t think I’m a scholar, I’m still in highschool, but I have taken inspiration from people with hefty biblical education. My main issue is that, from what I’ve seen, God cannot be both all-knowing and all-loving. If he is all knowing, there is no such thing as free will as all our choices will already be predicted well before we are born. If God is all-knowing, he creates people fully knowing he will send them to hell and that there is no hope for them to enter heaven. I don’t think this is anything close to benevolence. Additionally, the apposing religious sects imply that people are able to interpret the bible differently. Would a perfect God not be able to create a medium to communicate with his people so there could be no misinterpretations? I’ve heard of arguments against this like “The technology just didn’t exist back then.” or “It’s our fault for misinterpreting the texts in the first place.” But wouldn’t an all-power full god be able to create a technology for this? If God were capable of *ALL* things he would be able to communicate in such a way where miscommunication would be impossible to anyone at all? Unless he intentionally wanted us to be confused? There seems to be no reason for him to do that, so why is it able to be misinterpreted? To me, the most likely reason is that there was no all-powerful god there to inspire it in the first place.
It would be awesome to have a normal way of meeting someone other than people turning to dating apps. Attendance would be greatly improved if the church would be more accepting of singles. Everything in church revolves around the married and with children. If you are single they shun you. If you are married with no children you are shunned as well. Their needs to be activities and acceptance for both of these groups.
Yup. Church (esp. Christian churches) nowadays remind me of high school: very cliquish. The popular kids are the pastors, deacons, their spouses, staffers, and their families. If you're a single male or a divorced female (with kids), they definitely shunned you, no cap. 🧢💯🤙
You are right. All it takes is one girl to get offended at a church "singles meeting". Then the church is ripe for a lawsuit. They're just reacting to the litigious situation by reducing their risk, so therefore the result is more loneliness for singles.
Young people are more informed on facts than there parents due to the age of information . They are able to fact check a pastor n or preacher giving there interpretation of a book written by guys telling stories !
My parents didn't devorce til I was in my mid 20s. Of course my sister and I encouraged the Divorce 😁😂 I was doubting god while I was still in a married house.
People now days do not easily get fooled or follow old teachings. People are now doing their diligent research on these organized religions. All these organized religions have four things in common. 1) They collect tithes (some churches have three services in one day) or have gatherings three days out of a week, and don’t pay any taxes. 2) They all have big universities charging students thousands of dollars. 3) They all have big hospitals dealing with insurance ( again, over charging patients ) companies and big pharmaceutical companies selling their drugs and what not. 4) Fourth but not least, they all have big real estate companies - own lots of real estates and hotels...all equal to wealth. Now this begs the question, does GOD or JESUS need money after all these thousands of years? This sounds like, it’s the people that needs money.
A big problem is the amount of money it takes to stay alive. Also the hours any more are hard to work with. Businesses are open Sundays and require help to be there. They don't care about the employees religious needs. Church's are going to have think and work differently than they have.
This is a profoundly limited explanation for the decline in attendance. There is a significant difference between a church and THE CHURCH. The two seem to be getting further apart each year.
There may be a decline in marriage rates but the quality of those marriages are up. Religion may be on the decline for now but I think that is a good thing overall.
Or. It's because the youths, and us olders, have come to learn that what you preach is the biggest ongoing con on humanity in the known history of the world. Maybe that's why.
@@gfujigo False promises. So many evangelicals have tried to predict when this “Jesus” fellow would return, after about a million years. Thousands of people are murdered, raped, tortured, and physically harmed in some way, and this “God” doesn't intervene (divine intervention). There are several contradictions in the source material, the Bible. One being that “God makes mistakes or has regrets” and the other being that “God regretted creating mankind”. Sounds like a contradiction to me. You have people attending this one place called the Church to worship and pray to this omnibenevolent being, who's invisible and does basically nothing when called on, yet he's supposed to be everywhere, right? So, why go to Church to pray there? Shouldn't you be able to pray everywhere? So many religious people have used religion to justify racism, slavery, homophobia, and many more prejudices but cannot explain why God wants us to feel bad that Jesus died for our sins, yet he didn't stay dead for long and became immortal. He basically sent his only son to be killed (because he could see the future but still got pissed when his son was nailed to the Cross). This “God” loves us so much that he won't let us know when we are wrong but will torture us in eternal flames forever if we are wrong, even if we don't know any better. He never revealed himself to set things straight and left us here to die from all the viruses, nuclear weapons, and shootings going on in the world. That's the con.
It couldn’t be the insane cost of living for young people and the need to work 80 hours a week to hardly cover there expenses. Than waist what little free time they have listening to grown men beg for them to give them money they don’t have to give and guilt them for every little thing. The death of religion is the best thing that can happen to this country. Not to mention the insane amount of sexual misconduct in churches across the country.
This is a good point as well. People my age quite literally are struggling to stay alive in our broken economy. I’d go so far as to argue even the people this economy used to work for are starting to feel the hurt. As my parents, and other family members their age or older are starting to suffer from this too. The poverty line keeps going up, as our financial value tanks.
@@skyeguy7914 young people are also much smarter than they are given credit for. Unfortunately for religion intelligence is enemy #1. Churches prey on the week and dumb
@@night6724 if you’re referring to churches, I’ve relied on that before, guess what, they did as little to help as the possibly could. If you’re referring to organized systems like welfare, you clearly haven’t applied for them before, because it’s not that easy or that simple. Plus you seem the type to constantly belittle people who have to rely on that sort of thing, so I wouldn’t put it past you to actively being a smug contrarian for your own peace of mind.
@@skyeguy7914 except studies have proven charity is far more effective than welfare. Why did they “do as little as possible” to help? And what have you done for charity mr high and mighty? You are selfish and only care about yourself
@@barryhessel6078 Stop preaching Hate ! Try Peace Love and tolerance of those we don’t agree with ! When it comes to fairy tales like stories in your Bible ! I like the one about little red riding hood better !
My parents have been married 45 years and my extended family includes multiple pastors, but I still do not believe. Religion is unneeded. Marriage is a personal choice between twi people and the churches have shown they are universally hypocritical on many issues. Why bother!?
Hey. Things change. Christianity had a good (?) run. It’s over now. The 60s only showed people that they didn’t have to live a lie. They didn’t have to conform. They didn’t have to remain loyal to anything that was harmful to them or society. They had a choice. I think all of these things are good. Christianity is not surviving these changes. Don’t feel bad, lots of other religions did not survive changes in history. That’s just the way it is.
I don’t think Christianity is going to disappear absolutely but I do see it diminishing because of the hypocrisy and it’s unwillingness to address cultural and political perversions, despite how amazing it’s founder was. Religions like Buddhism and Hinduism have been around since before Christianity; and despite the invasion of Islam, have still persisted. Time will tell though.
It's to dangerous for men to marry these days, unless the church wants to take the brunt of cost of them losing everything when the woman gets bored of the marriage.
From my experience only, in talking with young people, marriage has nothing to do with it. They just don’t like the control and manipulation, the hypocrisy of the elders and the “pretend” love that only comes if you give the sufficient amount of money and volunteer the sufficient amount of hours to the church. The judgmental hounding, disapproving eye. These things do nothing to prove to young people that “Christians” worship a “Loving” God.
I left the church in my early 20s because of the hypocrisy. I found that many “Christians” were just horrible people. My wife left the church later because of the judgmental elders. I think this guy is way off. Ask people why they left the church and you’ll find out that most leave because “Christians”
I got sick of hearing that Christians need to be materialistic, hedonistic, & narcissistic like many’s false political idols when Jesus Christ was against all three. I left the church, but I haven’t left Christ nor has He left me. I don’t have to be a man’s chattel to be loved by my savior & my redeemer. You quoted a woman - was she married & the mother of children? The Episcopal Church does not say I have to be married & have children. Thank you.
Treaty of Tripoli Begun by George Washington, signed by John Adams and ratified unanimously by a Senate still half-filled with signers of the Constitution, this treaty announced firmly and flatly to the world that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
Since the pandemic people have realized that they didn't go to church to worship, they went for the community. The sense of belonging. Now, people realize that they can get that community without fearmongering and being told to condemn and hate people for not believing the same thing they do. Also, the rampant sexual abuse (and victim blaming) that so many churches try to cover up kinda puts a damper on anyone wanting to attend.
Marriage (or lack thereof) has little to nothing to do with our youth leaving their faith. In the past, people either never questioned their faith or, if they did, they had almost no one with whom to talk with about it. Now there is the internet, which will be the death knoll for religion. The nones now make up about 30% of the US, which has now surpassed the largest religious category (ahead of evangelical Protestants & Catholics). That’s an astronomical rise in that category & matching decline in the various religious categories. This will only continue to grow in the future. I imagine in the next 10-20 years we’ll see the ‘none’ category grow to 50% or higher, probably topping out at about 70% in 30-40 years as religion dies and atheism becomes the norm. Amen to that.
The world is completely lost without God! The youth in our nation were brought up without God,in the home! They are lost and confused , about the simplest things! They grow up without praying to God,and they become prideful and don't think they need God, and they actually think they know more than he does! God created the UNIVERSE and the world, 🌍 humans aren't capable of doing anything God can do, without him allowing it! We are able to have children, and create life with a spouse, because God wants us to! We can't make trees or flowers and when we do there plastic! Satan's job is to create mass confusion, because he is the Master of CHOAS! Many people are falling for the Evil, but one day Jesus Christ will return and all will witness this! 🙏🏻
You will eat those words. Voltaire famously asserted the same in his time centuries ago. The gates of hell will not prevail against the church - and gates are a thing for being on the defensive, not on the offensive.
Not just education and science, but also the hypocrisy of the church itself.. Several sects claim persecution while also actively trying to persecute others.
It's good to hear that billions are spent on youth ministry, since I've heard homicidal language preached from the pulpit and directed at innocent youth born outside of wedlock.
So, the wedding is the bedrock of Roman Catholicism, and all of this is led by men who vow never to marry anything other than “The Church,” which, let’s face it, is an extremely amorphous “bride.” If marriage is the beginning and end of the Christian faith, then what does that say about lay people who, by choice or circumstance, live single lives? They are less valued. There is a TON of hypocrisy in all denominations, and this blinders-on video demonstrates that Roman Catholics are also full to the brim with hypocrisy. Can’t you see the logs in your eyes?
I grew up in a very loving baby-boomer Christian family. Of five sons, all of us accepted Jesus, all of us were baptized, three of us went to seminary, one wrote worship music, another was a canon to the ordinary. Today, none of these sons attended church and have no desire to. Just saying.
My parents are happily married and I STILL left the Catholic church and couldn’t be happier! I could no longer blindly believe in book that has NOTHING to do with reality! Talking snakes, people rising from the dead, etc. Christianity is an insult to human intelligence!
Because there is no god. People are starting to wake up to this . I am not against people who want to practice their religion. They are free to do so. I have been married to my wife for 20 years and we don’t need a god or a church to let us know how much we love each other.
Evangelicals have hurt the church with its politics and hypocrisy. Admit it
Every organized church has politics and hypocrisy. Churchianity is rotten to the core.
And Preaching Prosperity, instead of murals. ( Completely Unscriptural )
@@apomegranatelove6881 The preaching of morals leads to eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. While it seems like the right thing to do, well...
That's the exact reason why woman thought it was a good thing to eat. Her man chose her over God and man fell, got kicked out of the Garden and this whole mess we live in came from that. If you want a godly seed, you have to preach Christ, keeping your eyes and the eyes of those who hear you fixed on him, his words, his acts and the New Covenant that God made with us in his blood. In that covenant, following the Ten Commandments was replaced with a command to hear Jesus instead of the Law and the Prophets and to yield to being led by the Spirit of God.
Matthew 17:5
Romans 8
As for teaching prosperity....
God does indeed prefer it when his truth is taught. Prosperity and good health are part and parcel of his gift to those who are Good Ground to his Word...
For they are the tenant that receive the salvation of their souls in THIS life, what John called "soul prosperity".
Psalms 35:27
Luke 8:15
James 1:19-22
1 Peter 1:6-9
3 John 2
The Church as a whole teaches obedience to Moses with lip service to Jesus and his sacrifice for his brethren.
Truth their hypocrisy
The real reason is that people are brought up to be anarchists & narcissists. This is a result of leftist doctrine. So is the break up the family. This is why Russia & Eastern Europe are focusing government on increasing marriage rates & promoting families.
Is he serious? 🤨 WOW! They missed this by a mile and to be honest….it shows why the decline continues.
I know right. Correlation does not mean causation. Not to mention it is obvious that it is vice versa.
@@floydthibodeaux1844 Amen 🙏🏾
I was thinking the same. My siblings were raised with their parents who were devout church goers and are still married. They see church as a joke or performance it seems.
1 Samuel 15 3
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
@@LisaAnn777 Even worse can be found, in the Book of Joshua.
I grew up with married parents. I did not leave the church due to my parents relationship. The Church's hypocrisy, corruption and antiquated views lead me to leave the church. I'm happily married for almost 10 years now, only civil marriage.
The Church's views are wise and vibrant. They are based on the Gospel. You should be more concerned about your own imperfections than that of the Church. The Church is the best way for you to complete your soul. Rest assured, the hypocrites, the corrupt and yourself will stand before God in Judgement. If you reject God's mercy, you will be separated from Him for all of eternity.
@@MrSottobanco...you are aware that the church has hidden many illegal businesses as well as pedophiles among its members right? Is okey tp belive in God, bjt if you think that the chirch is an all loving organization to clean souls, you live in delusion and you arebt in condition to lecture anyone.
@@MrSottobanco you’re in a cult
@@MrSottobanco faith doesnt teach improvements in society, what it does it justifies human actions and crimes as a way to re-affirm itself on its postures of christianity, the doctrination and authority of the human idea and popular mind is too powerful to justify that a "rapist" for example claim himself that god forgave him and he is now "christian" and nobody does anything so later nobody wouldnt know the rest of it because the use of word of god are being used for crime, political power etc.
and about "god's judgement" making us to wait for a mystical justice is not solving our modern day problem of today cause it should be made here alive, the idea is to improve civilization from crimes, not keep making crimes and let the faith justify do its job, everybody no matter who or no matter the religion everyone should pay their own consequences and this is being said thanks from the separation between church and state, the importance of secularism is requiered to measure whats fair and whats not. its not meant to disprove god or your faith, its meant to let you improve for it so we can make a better world
@@MrSottobanco aha, tell me more fantasies.
I can tell you for a fact that it has nothing to do with people being raised in homes with married parents. People are just sick and tired of the hypocrisy, intolerance and mightier than thou mentality. I saw this first hand growing up at a church that I no longer attend. In fact, most of the kids I went to high school with stopped going too.
So they leave because they are greedy, selfish & narcissistic. They leave because they hear they aren’t the center of the universe after all. Sign of the times.
@@talisikid1618
All non sequiturs.
I know there is an afterlife and you all will return
@@talisikid1618 no they leave because of the filth hypocrisy and lies. You don't read well do you?
Atheists are the hypocrites.
I have met one ‘Christian’ in my 51 years that exemplifies what Christ was as an example. 99% have been hateful, and fearful animals who don’t follow their models example.
That’s the most depressing thing about societies where being christian has been the norm. Basically all the “Christians” are just acting out the motions and don’t actually understand that they are supposed to be represent Christ Jesus the literal all mighty God who Forsook himself to save man kind. God Bless.
Nowadays, you CANNOT MARRY the modern women !! Not only are they all promiscous and lie behind your back, but they will take the house, the kids, AND CRUSH YOU !!!! The modern women want the traditional benefits in marriage while they interact with six different dating apps, tiktoks and endless social media account flooded with simps that puts them on a pedestal that and make them look like a freakin STAR !!! hell no !!! but no thank you !!! Men do genuinely want to fall in love, have kids, happy wife happy life, but this ain't the 60's anymore !!! You will get cheated on and legally robbed !!!
I’m a practicing Christian and I believe you hit the mail on head head…
Christians are scared. Humans…are scared. We die and there’s a multitude of ideas of what happens. Some say we just stop existing. Some say we come back in new bodies. Some say we go to heaven/hell. Some don’t believe in hell.
Christians are humans just like everyone else and they can be just as scared, angry, mean, and selfish as any atheist can be. I’ve found that we’re all humans trying to figure out this life that has no answers or clear direction.
When you wake up and you have no path laid out for you and are free to do whatever you want. Is that freedom or a punishment? That’s a question I’ve thought of and have pondered on occasion.
Christians are just as human as anyone else.
I’m 55. You’re not looking hard enough
I agree. I believe in Jesus myself but I do see a bit of snarky wittiness and a bizarre bluntness from a lot people who call themselves Christian. These don’t really help sell Jesus to people.
Yes, the problem must be the erosion of marriage, not the failure of Christians in general when it comes to conveying the value of Christianity. I gave up on religion way back in 2007, and I’ve found that outsiders like ex-Christian comedians, spiritual teachers of Eastern traditions, and unconventional Christians are better at making Christianity make sense than diehard, traditional Christians, who value quantity of seats filled over the quality of the message that’s presented.
Not really.
@@I_Love_Chinese_Food an after life existing or not has is not evidence for or against your faith. American Christianity is based on blasphemous theology more concerned with status quo, markets
and making sure you have your “heaven pass” to get into the afterlife. I used to believe there must be good pillars underneath what I and so many other westerners believed but there simply is not. If you disagree, go find a deconstruction reddit thread and if you’re heart is open you’ll leave that encounter with your first “crack” revealed in your foundation.
@@I_Love_Chinese_Food so you're saying don't be a good person because it doesn't matter in God's eyes. How about love thy neighbor as thyself pretty sure that's sound advice.
@@I_Love_Chinese_Food No it doesn't. You're reading the Bible with a literalist perspective and completely miss the point of the entire faith tradition.
But even if it did say that, why do you think I'd care? The internet is PUBLIC, meaning not everyone here is a white american christian. Do you realize that??
Yeah as a Christian, I couldn’t agree more. Legalism is one of the two main fallacies that destroys the Church.
This entire video is a textbook example of “correlation does not equal causation.” There are so many other factors that this video completely ignores, such as the 2002 Boston archdiocese sex scandal. Turning a blind eye to reality (such as what’s being done in this video) is the main reason why churches are failing at keeping attendance.
I think the internet may also be a significant development during the same time frame :)
I wrote a similar comment then saw yours: could it be that people are leaving churches because they have concluded that religions avoid difficult questions?
The issue is that something inherited is not appreciated much like something achieved. The youth of today woke up on Sundays or Saturdays and were sent to church and it became nothing more than a routine. We didn’t choose God, God was chosen for us. On the other hand, if you were not a Christian but you came to be believe, that’s an entirely different story. In that scenario you have your reasons for coming. In the first scenario you didn’t do it out of your own will, therefore you were never in it in the first place. Faith isn’t inherited through DNA but through personal experiences. If you’ve never experienced it then you have nothing tying you to it. Also, the whole concept of walking by faith is weak. You can use it for any religion or belief. That by itself is a self inflicted wound that doesn’t work. It also hammers in the concept that you can only follow God if he chooses it, therefore anyone who has not experienced God nor is unable to simply believe by faith has not been chosen, therefore even if they try Christianity they will not be saved. Not everyone who says Lord Lord will enter into the kingdom
@@denniskwarteng5858 There are so many factors that correlate with the inverse exponential decline in church attendance. People can fact check answers on their own now. They don’t have to just take their pastors word saying the earth is a few thousand years old. Not only do they see the evidence for evolution that contradicts biblical narratives, but they can also see the evolution of god from a local deity who can sometimes (but not always) control the outcomes of wars, to an overarching worldwide deity (without image or visual representation), to a triune deity with a human form and regularly represented in paintings and sculptures (ie graven images).
Opposing opinions are so much more readily available now (eg bart erhman, Israel Finkelstein, Jews for Judaism).
The hypocrisy of people like Jerry Falwell and sexual scandals and coverups within the church haven’t been a good look as of late either.
The one thing the church still has going for it is community support in an increasingly disconnected world which lacks a lot of social safety nets and mental health resources.
@@TheWumps In my church community, I never really hear the reasons why people leaving the church being tied to those you proposed. Like you said though, there are many different factors. For some, it is tied to the reasons you proposed, but for the people I have interacted with, the reasons I gave previously are more prominent.
I will say though, using hypocrisy as a reason to leave the church doesn't seem viable to me. In any situation where humans are involved, there will be human error. If you look up to any person in general you are bound to be disappointed at some point. I personally don't look up to anyone, not because I choose not to, but because it doesn't really work for me. The coverups too, that one is an institutional issue, not a religious issue.
I think both of these issues can be fixed by asking whether you are a church goer or a Christian. If you are a Christian, you don't believe God exists since beliefs can be false. Rather, you know he exists and will decide whether you want to follow him or not and can view those two issues as human error and not having to do with God himself.
The church is in denial. It's not about married couples, it's the obvious fact that even 13 year old kids are smart enough to figure out that's it's a means of controlling people and thoughts and prayers are useless.
I agree for I believe it’s primarily social influence from friends/family that keep teens from attending, teenage rebellion (because it’s not just Christianity this happens in) and lastly, hypocrisy. A lot of evangelists (especially televangelists) have damaged the message of Jesus by doing the “do what I say but not as I do” trope.
Hell yeah it is.
Power, greed, control. That's all church is.
@@golden8972,
For the most part, I believe so too,
Its like an old man who refuses to accept that the world has evolved, so he throws a tantrum against the youth for not following his command as peolpe have done through History.
My parents didn't have a divorce, but they took their anger & hurt on me & my siblings. They abused us physically & verbally. My parents were good & kind in the presence of people, especially nuns & priests, & when we were at church. But most of the times, & when we were not in church, our parents were jerks. They put on a facade. Sometimes, they were sincerely good & kind to us.
Every single person is traumatized by what their parents did or didn't do. At least yours cared enough to pretend for you guys, they didn't bail and were still alive.
Nowadays, you CANNOT MARRY the modern women !! Not only are they all promiscous and lie behind your back, but they will take the house, the kids, AND CRUSH YOU !!!! The modern women want the traditional benefits in marriage while they interact with six different dating apps, tiktoks and endless social media account flooded with simps that puts them on a pedestal that and make them look like a freakin STAR !!! hell no !!! but no thank you !!! Men do genuinely want to fall in love, have kids, happy wife happy life, but this ain't the 60's anymore !!! You will get cheated on and legally robbed !!!
/God has entered inside my body, like a body. my same size. Holy ghost baptism. God does all witchcraft and voices people hear saying do bad things...
@God entered into my body, as a body! my same size!
Are you serious?
May God not hold this blasphemy against you. You are blaspheming against the Holy Spirit.
Pray He forgives you in Jesus' name!
Divorce was the best thing my parents did for themselves and for me, these lies they spread will ruin lives
They aren't leaving the faith, that's just how certain folks spin it. They are exiting the country club POSING as a church, not " the church", not " the faith".
Right like those Baptists?
HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Well actually they're leaving the faith as well which is great because religion has done very little good in this world. In fact, I think it's the number one killer in all of humanity. Oh wait! No... God was the number one killer of all of humanity when he drowned everybody during that flood. Including children and babies... Because they wouldn't obey him. sounds like a serious ego problem.
@@Praise___YaH ... The purpose of your existence is to make other Christians feel smart by comparing themselves to you.
@@Praise___YaH The New Testament writers present Jesus Christ as the One who died, not the Father. Since Jesus was God incarnate, both fully man and fully God.
This is horribly out of touch with why we are leaving. My parents had (and still have) a fantastic marriage. The reason so many of us are leaving is because Christianity (and religion as a whole) is filled with claims that cannot be supported by evidence. This worked fine for churches when information was not as easily available, but now I can literally just google my exact question and read tangible proof that the claims I am hearing in church are wrong. Further, the behavior of Christians and other religions on the national scale has gotten so hypocritical and embarrassing to watch that I absolutely do not want my name to be associated with that. In conversations I've had with other friends who left the church as well (most of whom also come from strong marriages), they have generally agreed that these are the primary motivations for them as well. Obviously, this is anecdotal, but I would bet good money that these items would rank far higher in polling than "mArRiAgE!!!11!!1!"
This is exactly correct. Islamic nations have figured this out, too, which is why they restrict access to the internet, maintaining a low-information environment. I was regularly exposed to religion as a child by Christian grandparents. Their social club nondenominational church was quite conservative and very cliquey. I loved to read and did so voraciously, exposing myself to lots of different ideas. The church’s youth minister couldn’t answer and was quite disturbed by the innocent but pertinent and serious questions I asked in Sunday School. I didn’t go back after I reached the age of reason (about 12 for me), except to appease my grandparents for certain events. This was all pre-internet, but I am glad so many kids have that additional resource to seek out evidence, find answers and develop critical thinking skills today.
for me it was not being able to reconcile the bible as the word of god. They claim its the word of god. But we know that the gospels were written 40-100 years after the fact by anonymous writers who werent the people named. We know that in 325 the emperor of Rome gathered all the early church leaders and made them decide what goes in the bible amd what doesnt. So this is all translations of translations written by third parties who never witnessed the events themselves written down as much as 100 years after the fact. there is no way something so unreliable would ve taken seriously today. And if god is omnipotent why did he choose the single dumbest and unreliable way imaginable to send his word? If its the word of god why does no one seem to agree on what it means? If its the arbiter of absolute morality why is it today theres things we consider immoral that are just fine in the bible? It all reeks of bullshit.
Indeed, correlation does not = causation. I left Christianity when I was 41, after being married and having kids. Anecdotally, my parents are still married, but non-religious, took us to church when we were younger and I took to Christianity deeply when a middle schooler. My wife is still a Christian, raising the kids in that faith and may or may not choose to make it their own when they are old enough to actually make that informed decision. I have no interest in swaying their indoctrination, other than hopefully instilling an ability to think critically.
But @Infinity is probably getting more to the root cause of why people leave the faith. Not because of the collapse of the "normative" family structure, but more simply; we are no longer convinced there is a God. Easy to blame on any and all cultural shifts one doesn't care for and makes sense since we have built moral systems around appeals to things outside of our humanity. But we're done hiding behind this facade. Does is make things more messy and cause problems not to have a great all everything deity to unify everything, heck yeah, but this is the reality we live in. To try and resurrect (pun intended) faith is only going to get demonstrably more difficult as god-explanations turn out to be more and more vapid.
this is so true, i don't like how they haven't asked ppl who have actually left why they did. Instead they choose to extrapolate data and jump to conclusions.
@@ardbegthequestion I have to say that I disagree. The reasons why people leave are very complex but rarely do I find intellectual hangups to be the root cause. The reason I am a Christian fundamentally is because, 2,000 years ago, Someone died for me. You and I had no say in that. My upbringing and personal spiritual encounter with Christ as a teenager is secondary to that fundamental claim. That claim, interestingly denied by Muslims, is supported by history and I would argue by our deepest "mystical" intuition. If false, the mere fact that all of human history is dated around a crucified Jewish peasant turned Messiah candidate is astounding. It is precisely voracious reading that has strengthened my faith and opened my eyes to the holes in the Western modern rationalist and postmodern flavors of thought. I see in part why the Church counterintuitively is growing fastest in the areas of heavy persecution, such as in China and Iran. The documented supernatural events - visions of Christ and miracles - are abundant in these places of childlike faith. The issue is that we in the West do not appreciate or understand the message and miracle of the Bible, let alone the Person of Christ. We have grown arrogant in the name of "progress", either denying our spiritual needs or seeking to meet them on our own terms - creating gods in our broken image. The Living waters of Christ which have shaped so much of the West have become the stagnant waters of Christendom. Which of course doesn't satisfy.
Reading the Bible is why people are finally getting out of religion
Exactly! They do not need the Catholic Church to know God.
@@thomaslorenz221 men doing God man cosplay while shifting around child molesters are human garbage
Because the Bible says opposite to this religious garbage
Yup, you hit the nail on the head.
1 Samuel 15 3
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
@@LisaAnn777 and people think that's what a loving God would say?that's genocide
I consciously left the Catholic faith behind at age 7 even while forced for another 11 years to go to church and Catholic school in a married household, because I recognized that Divine Love, compassion and an understanding for how how the Universe works is lost in that religion.
No it is lost in atheism which is stupid
@@night6724 Catholicism is stupid
What. That's where they originated. You walk away from salvation.
@@ding9633 For you maybe cuz you like all who leave the faith DON,T wanna follow the rules. It's not a faith for wimps or people who have low self esteem, it takes a strong person to follow HER laws and deny the world and all its empty promises which lead the bulk of humanity to hell .
I’m gen x. I left because I found out all the lies I had been told and about all the deception and money spent on coverups. I have been married for 14 years, have one child. Would have liked more but infertility put a stop to that option.
I come from baby boomers. They had 3 children. 2 of the 3 have left the church we grew up in.
The difference between my upbringing and my child’s, we give him an option for what he believes in. Besides me leaving the religion I grew up in, and having less children, that is the only difference. I never had choices. I was forced and my child is not and doesn’t believe in religion. So your statistics can say one thing, but reality says another.
seems to be a common reason for people bailing on the church
if only they would spend those billions on being good people and fixing their corruption maybe people would return to the faith
@@reform-revolution Asking this politely, but do you think people would actually return? Knowing that people have found the truth about the religion, people have found out that the Book of Mormon is made up, that many of the things that good Mormon people are doing isn’t found anywhere in the BOM, like temple marriages, do you think people would really return? Or that the nephrite’s and lamenites weren’t real?
I couldn’t be paid to go back. Not knowing what I know now. But maybe that’s just me.
But I truly am curious if you think people would go back. And I promise it’s not in a judgmental way.
@@racheld7528 in the short term ..... no
over the next 2-3 gens .... probably
they still wouldnt be as fanatical as this nubs want but they would have more reasons to be part of the faith if it was actively practicing what it preaches
When they gave their stats, the first thing I thought was that correlation doesn’t equal causation.
@@racheld7528
I understand. I've had people say mean things to me for no reason and honestly it just makes me cry (if and when it happens). One was a guy pretending to be a street preacher, but the thing is it doesn't work like that. Either he's led by the Holy Spirit to be a preacher, or he's not. He couldn't force himself into those shoes. Even if he hadn't been cruel and ungodly it would still not work like that, where he can fabricate God's will for his life. He left me with no hope and made horrible things up that the Bible doesn't even say. Anyone can add or take away from the Bible, unfortunately. It's just that people sometimes don't listen to God through the Holy Spirit sometimes, let alone their consciences. That kind of person will always seem to have a chunk missing. You can't force books into the Bible that don't exist. You can't pretend to be a prophet that has visions if you're not one. Nobody knows when the world will end except God. You can't tell people whether God will help someone or not, as though you're some kind of authority. You hear it all in the wrong places, by mostly bitter angry people who don't properly listen to God and never considered that prayer involves listening as well as talking, instead of ignoring God's voice in favor of their own plans. I've even met people thinking that they can all speak in tongues on command when it's just gibberish and you can't fabricate spiritual gifts God didn't give you. People can be deceptive. But that's why we should trust Him and not let other people determine what He will or won't do or say.
Education, knowledge, science and reason are the prevailing antidotes for religion, ignorance, dogma and superstition, respectively.
Very copy paste comment right here.
@@camulodunondoesn't change the fact that its still right
@@Melnokina.-. It's far from right
@@camulodunonnope, it's still very right
@@aaronsmith1474 isn
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Or maybe we’re leaving because we just want to pick their lifestyles. The idea that faith is an objectively good thing is just stupid. Some people just live their lives differently than others.
Just because they live it differently doesn't mean they are living righteous. This explains all the mental illness, drug use ,and suicide. Turning your back on God you live in darkness. Jesus leads the lost from the darkness into enteral light.
@@TPayne-qy9ok Give me proof that being a non believer makes all this happen. Then I'll consider it
@@monke7914 atheism is what is objectively stupid
1 Samuel 15 3
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
@@LisaAnn777 Are you referring to God enacting his wrath that he forewarned 700 year earlier? Those people were literally child sacrificers who had a culture where they would just publicly gang rape people.
People leave church because of the many Deceitful pastors and staff that pretend to care about you, but truly care for your money. It’s sad but true.
As a Catholic, I want to apologize on behalf of the Church for all of you here in the comments who were hurt by abuse and cover-ups. Please know that we're working to weed out the predators and make sure that all adults have youth protection training to prevent the next generation from being hurt.
It's not just that.
It's that more people are thinking critically and have found no cause to believe in the Christian assertion.
Too late false teacher's.
You guys "weed them out" the same way sea world does when an orca kills a trainer which is sending it to a different location without giving background info. Also when you guys were in power you tortured people.
If by “weed out” you mean “transfer to a different parish where they can keep raping”…
It will never change. All religions are cults and there is no forgiveness for things that were meant for pain. Stop being brainwashed in dumb lies.
Hilariously off. Why would the “cultural revolution” that started in the 2000s be a decline in marriage, instead of, oh, I don’t know… the fucking INTERNET? Like, an unprecedented time in the spread and collection of knowledge and truth, that seriously didn’t come to mind? I know many people offhand who grew up in religious households who simply just, became skeptical, educated themselves, and lost their faith. Isn’t giving people all sides of a story, and then letting them form their own opinion, only fair?
Exactly!
Ok fedora
I love how the nun was freaking out about marriage and family when she chose to be a nun and never partook in either
Well. She choose none!
😂 True!
Well you don’t understand.
@@mikemcnamara3777What don't I understand? That she's a hypocrite? If being a wife and mother was so important to her she could've done both while still maintaining a strong religious devotion to her God.
Left the " church " years ago. Never left the faith. You don't find God in the church. You bring Him. Very few bringers these days.
That’s not true, did you not visit you mom and dad. Would they be okay with, well Mom, just remember you are in my heart. I highly doubt it! God is our father in Heaven, He expects us to come to him and make an effort. What you said is a made up phrase said by lazy Catholics. Sorry but it’s the truth. God Bless
I agree with rich.
@@williammccallum1550 I agree with rich too.
If not the Church, please tell me where you would find the Lord? In schools, the entertainment industry such as music, television and cinema perhaps?The streets or loud voices spewing specious arguments in favor of hedonist, humanistic behavior where everyone finds their own truth and every immoral behavior can be rationalized away. Hey, if a six year-old boy wishes he was a girl, the parents rush in and castrate him and all is well with the world! If there is no Church with a teaching authority (Magisterium) going back to the time of Christ and with the divine authority to prescribe the way, the truth and the life, then where do you go? Or do you figure it out yourself as the demonic forces of this evil world convince you that you are worthy of following your own path and " bringing Him" to your world! Good luck with that folks! But be prepared to hear the words : " Get thee away from me, for I never knew you"!
There's so many "Christians" that are full of anger. The world is not as they believe it should be so they rush to legislate their will upon others. Love, compassion, and understanding is how you will reach the masses. Not with your anger and your news Nation talking points.
A homeschooled kid like me left the church my dad pastored when I was 16 because I got tired of taking prescription amphetamines, taking communion with gossiping abusive predatory people, getting lied to, and getting coerced (processed) by the 10% cartels groomers for/into volunteer/missionary work. My dad's been a pastor for a 10% franchise for 50 years. I had to see a therapist for most of 20 years. Add in the wasted cost of Bible college, the 35 years of preventable pills, doctors, and side effects....
Dude, it's stories like this that makes me literally glad that I was raised in a cult. They never did anything wrong like this, they were just misguided. The biggest difference from my experience and the normal church kids experience was the level of fear. Holy crap, christians might not fear death but damn do they fear everything else. It makes me really sad because these people had the truth and yet lived like the worst people. The level of abuse I have heard about is insane. Everything from having the hell scared out of them, to literally having exorcisms attempted on them.
Funny story, every christmas and easter we would have three times the number of people come to our (non-christian) church. A large part of the population felt that they were obligated to come to church, but would do it the minimum number of times which was easter and christmas. It was stupid as hell because we werent even a christian church, but the idiots never figured that out.
What the speaker of this video is saying stupid. This isn't a recent problem with them. This is a complete rot in their whole way of doing things for the past (at least) fifty years. It's just now that they get to see the rewards for the way they behaved and what they did. They used the idea of jesus to push whatever agenda they had. Even the speaker is suggesting that the bible and jesus were about morals and the right way of living, and that not doing those things has caused people to leave. They need to start teaching the real jesus here.
Honestly, if it wasn't for me literally growing up in a cult, I would not be a christian right now because I would have grown up with all the bullshit you have and ran away probibly a lot sooner then you did.
@@james73686 I didn't run away. I left the church. The church still intruded on divorce and custody issues a decade later. I out lived one of my kids because not all of us survive church involvement in state courts.
@@jasonworks1454 I didn't mean to imply you ran away. It's just that the stories that you guys tell, what happened is just crazy. How the hell does the church get involved in the court?
@@james73686 you said you would have run away sooner then I did. At any rate.. my x's family went to church with the prosecutor, and the federally deputized law enforcement officer/preacher I used to share bunk beds with and my parents thought I didn't deserve my kids because I would take the kids to church if they wanted to go. They thought someone else deserved my kids more because they would make them go, and told me so a few times. And as far as church influenced goes... They almost all are. That why the courts and health care systems are broken. Both and most of the mental health service providers are owned or run by the Catholic Church. Gaslighting and miracle faking are endemic.
Religions are filth
You will know them by their fruit. I see no reason to believe religious people have superior morals based on the fruit I see them bear. I grew up seeing far better behavior from the athiest I knew than the church goers I was forced to attend with.
Our society has undergone massive changes in the last 100 years, so many things are following a similar trend, to Cherry pick one of them and say “AHA!! I’ve discovered the reason people are leaving religion!” Is beyond absurd, and I hope people can see through this nonsense
Yup! Perfect example of correlation and causation not being the same
And perfect encapsulation of why churches keep failing - they continue to project what they think is the problem instead of listening to the people who left.
yeah it is a complex matter, and I have only seen very narrow explanations.
Excellent answer. Lower marriage rate may have something to do, but it can't be the one and only cause. Much of the decline of the Catholic communities, IMHO, are due to an appalling education in the faith coming down from previous generations. Remember, Catholics read less their bibles than Protestants because the clergy wasn't super enthusiastic about laymen reading too much, or because said laity was so poor their couldn't even afford a Bible. I'd say it speaks volumes about a cultural factor with long termed consequences.
Hm, well -- you make an interesting point, but I'd respectfully differ. From my point of view as a Christian, a person's understanding of the faith (and ergo their willingness to embrace it) is very strongly tied to their experience of how that same faith translates into well-ordered relationships with the people around us. Our relationships with our parents, spouses, and potential romantic prospects are on the very top of the list. If a person isn't cradled in a social context in which the love of God and love of neighbor is genuinely shaping our lives, that person will probably be more vulnerable to losing their faith than someone who does have an actively Christian family to rely on, all other things being equal.
Of course, there are other contributing factors, such as how Christianity and Catholicism are being actively suppressed and misrepresented in the media on such an unprecedented scale, and so on, but I believe that a fairly persuasive correlation has been established between the health of a person's family and the health of their faith. While correlation doesn't equal causation, it can still emerge as a factor to consider on a case-by-case basis, and I believe in this particular case the association is relevant. :)
Really!?! Here I was thinking I became an athiest because I recognized that there is currently no evidence of a god actually existing.
Maybe you are right but the truth is that I am a baby boomer and I grew up with married parents but the truth is that the Church in general has proven to be unworthy of what they preach… they are more interested in money, power, worldly goods, and they have lost their salt because of these issues…they worry about what you believe instead of being worry about what goes on in life…they have lost touch with life… I left the church but I still believe but I no longer belong to a place where life passes by and all they want is a club…while many people struggle with bills, raising their kids with 2 or 3 jobs. The church is not teaching people to turn their backs on this world on the contrary the church embraces this world and it’s worldly goods. You wonder why young kids don’t go to church anymore??? Think twice…
Agreed. For me, it’s the hypocrisy and the acceptance of political garbage that the Bible specifically says is wrong. They’re churches of the world, not of God.
yes this!
If you experience that in the church you go to I would advise you to be smart enough to leave and find a building where the true church gathers. I also would keep in mind the words of Abraham Lincoln. “If you’re looking for bad in a man (or an individual), you will surely find it. If one is a Christian, a follower of Christ, one should realize that all humans make mistakes. Only God is perfect. If you are looking for perfection on earth you were not going to find it. I would encourage you to stay And pray ( True prayer is communication with God, not memorized words) talk to God and tell him what’s going on and how you feel and ask him to intervene by his Holy Spirit. You can be used to change what is wrong in love. Your other option is to leave and find a place where faithful Christians meet. Remember, it is not a religion that will save you. It is not Catholicism, it is not protestant, Episcopalian, non-denominational church that will save you. YOU must have a relationship with your Savior, Jesus Christ. How do you do that? You can spend time reading the Bible. As many times as you read it, you will get new revelation. Memorize or remember scriptures. These scriptures are your weapon against the enemy. “ For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, But principalities, against powers, Against the rulers of darkness of this world, Against spiritual wickedness in high places. “Ephesians 6: 12
@@FlowersfromNan I have never had the purpose of looking for the bad in people…I just tell you that I have found more love and understanding from unbelievers that from believers. I went through many experiences. I am not a youngster, I have lived for almost 60 years…most church people are not following Christ… they are following goods, riches, fortune, and they pride themselves of being successful…if Jesus would come back now he would not visit any church at all. He said my Kingdom is not of this earth… but really who understand this??? The churches have been trying to make God and Jesus work for them. When it is the other way around. When you tell them you cannot manipulate God they leave you on a side or they don’t espanto to talk to you…I am sorry to say that this is a very common problem….either you think like them or they get rid of you…
Why the Vietnamese church people liked to eat dog meat on Christmas?
I left the church because I felt like an outcast and the church condemned the LGBTQ community. I’m gay and trans. They have actual written rules about it. I repressed my identity for so long because of their harmful teachings. I still struggle with it to this day. Just remember, if the church tells you that you’re a sinner for your identity, you don’t have to listen to them. There are people who will be there for you, and you’re wonderful just the way you are!
HERE is The Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
I do not understand all the variations for sexual identity but I believe that it would not have made a difference to Jesus.
The Bible condemns anything outside the Biblical definition of marriage: between one man and one woman; Jesus even confirmed this. The only exception is to allow people who were gay, who turned from it, back into the church. That is how Paul and the others taught when it came to the structure of the church. This is repentance and forgiveness as Jesus preached.
@@resistdespots4911 why would gay people want back into a church that persecuted them?
I think marriage has nothing to do with the decline of faith. I believe it has to do with the easier communication of information. Notice how the graphs drastically change around the year 2000, which is when access to the internet really started to take off. So teenagers instead of asking the priest or their parents questions about controversial topics and getting the religious answer, they could hop onto the internet and get answers from every point of view and why other views are wrong and then decide for themselves.
This 100%
Exactly. This is why I hope more people leave religion.
And nit just that religious folks tend to be more judge on stuffing homosexual and call it as a sin
Out generation tends to be more excepting
People will always deny logic for comfort though.
😂🤣 this is rich haha did someone forget to tell them that correlation doesn’t mean causation? Haha
And it has nothing to do with the awful people in political and social leadership that do and say awful and egregiously unkind and unloving things in the name of Christianity. It has nothing to do with the Catholic Church protecting pedophiles…..Marriage may have some cause but WE are ultimately the reason. People look at us and think: “If that’s a Christian, I can do bad all by myself”
Not just the Catholic leadership protecting pedophiles and sexual abusers. The Southern Baptists are in hot water with the DOJ for covering up hundreds of cases of rapists and pedophiles among their clergy, too. The way the Church builds up “ordination,” making some people more “holy” than others, putting them in the spotlight, creating impossible expectations of them, is just overall, extremely unhealthy. Always has been. I was in ministry for years, and I saw A. people who could handle the stresses of ministry and create functional congregations-almost always at costs to themselves and their families, B. people who did not know how to handle the stresses of parish ministry who deteriorated and took out their pain on other people in all sorts of crazy ways, including sexual misconduct (not an excuse, they’re still culpable), C. the sinister people who get into this looking for victims. There are also a lot of D.’s people who recognise how unhealthy and boundary-less parish ministry is and get the hell out. A great film about the B. people is Ethan Hawke’s “First Reformed.” The very structure of the Church creates mental illness.
“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable,” Brennan Manning.
This statement is absolutely true!
Because it’s BS! The best thing I did was to walk away from religion and church. I feel SOOO much better about myself!
I don’t know you but I know that a lot of people walk away because the people in the church may have hurt them. I would really like to encourage you to read the Bible and try to get a good relationship with God and get to know him. I would reccomend that but I can’t tell you how to live your life and I’m so sorry if anyone from the church or anyone has hurt you.
@@jacobjackson1212 Thank you for the kind words! The church did harm me, mentally! Southern Baptist churches should be closed down. I still gave a relationship with God but not the church. 🙏🏻
@@jacobjackson1212 Reading the bible cover to cover is one of the best ways to become atheist
@@jacobjackson1212 Amen Jacob you said it best 👏
Guys, HERE is The Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
Its because people are more educated now and dont believe in a imaginary man in the sky who watches everything you do hears everything you say and if you sin he will send you to hell! But he "loves you" haha
Not to mention that he does absolutely nothing when you are need of help or in danger. If he does, he's not very consistent at all.
Your,e lost already, you,re life is just a prelude to hell if you don,t REPENT AND COME BACK.
Please, I BEG of you to start being more original.
I used to go to church every Sunday but quit because I never get anything out of it.
@BriJenell I never contributed anything when I went to church. I just never felt close to God whenever I attended church or read my Bible.
umm… or could it be that young people who are told repeatedly that their parents live in sin, that their family and/or friends are ‘bad’ in so many ways, get sick and tired of it, and just leave? “Why can’t the church keep making people feel bad and expect them to stay?” Very difficult question indeed!
What Bible teaching congregation are you talking about? I've been a Born Again believer and doctrinal Bible teacher for nearly 40 years and I have never witnessed a congregation like most of you are describing.
The ones I am speaking of are all Southern Baptist congregations and the lack of depth in the teaching of God's breathed words notwithstanding, they were all loving, family towards all, considerate to the Elderly, some were easily deceived by Pastors where a congregation had poor teachings by poor and unknowledgeable teachers, but none were the kind described by you and others.
The people who have the most problems with churches usually have problems with what God's breathed words teach, homosexuality for example (which is sinful behavior, every homosexual knows this as they claim God is a forgiving God, this being in the context of the practice of their life as gay) including a real lack of knowledge and or understanding of scripture altogether.
Most young and older people leave the faith because they are either unbelievers or not taught scripture properly, in the clear language and plain context of the scriptures from the beginning.
I've heard complaint after complaint in these comments, but nothing from the New Testament Epistles, which are specifically addressing the Body of Christ under grace not law for righteousness. Most complaints are based on feelings from or towards something or someone.
Believers can truly encounter bad behavior from professing believers, but primarily speaking, the problem is Biblical passages not known, understood, read, studied, believed or discussed and lived by, whether one has one or both parents, or foster parents, etc.
There is nearly no discussion had by most who turn away from "the" faith supposedly. If one is a believer in Jesus Christ one is born again and cannot just walk away, he or she has a Heavenly Father and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit and that person is being disobedient, not unborn. God will deal with that child of his per his word.
God's breathed words addressing the Body of Christ under grace in the New Testament Epistles explains this and more.
We are also to love one another with a fervent love, we are to confess sin if we sin and God will forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (see 1 John 1:9) All of this and much more is clearly taught to the born again believers in Christ.
I hope this helps some who are reading the comments. Every believer and unbelievers will be held accountable by God according to his breathed words.
Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and he was buried and he was raised from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures and was seen by more than 500 witnesses. If you believe in Jesus Christ you have forgiveness of sin and you have salvation, eternal life, and all that obtains under grace, much of which is explained in the New Testament Epistles specifically addressing the Body of Christ under grace not law for righteousness.
What truly irks me about this is that it acts as if the church is an essential part of life, and that it isn’t simply someone’s belief changes that cause them to leave, it must be another factor that causes them to lose the faith that every human being should have. The video enforces very JW like views. Modern religion is a cult.
It should be an essential part of life
@@night6724 It should be in the scrap heap of history
Agreed. I believe it is as you’ve stated: it’s because people’s views change, either because they notice something is wrong with the church, which is legitimate, or it’s their own desire that get in the way. Either way, I don’t believe church attendance entirely hinges upon wether you’re married or not.
Income inequality over the last 40+ years has a massive effect on Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z "not getting married".
I disagree with this. I make a great living! It’s just so much fun to be able to do anything I want without having to worry about a child, or the financial responsibility that comes with being a parent.
@@charliesno I mean both can be correct
@@clintriggen3554 actually. I totally agree with you. I think I was trying to articulate that money and god don’t really go hand in hand. Some of the richest people on the planet don’t believe in god and so do some of the poorest. Also some of the most devout are from third world countries. So yes, great point.
Gen z kids have parents but not intrested in religion
@@charliesno anecdotal
I'll tell you why I stopped attending your church. 1. You told me my mother's divorce from her drug-addicted ex-husband was wrong. 2. You told me, that my being mixed race was wrong. 3. You told my mother her racism was valid. 4. Your congregation told me that being LGBTQ+ was wrong. You told me my mother's mental illness, my abuse, and my lack of a family support system due to my mother's mental illness were wrong, and my mother's racism was correct. That all my suffering was imposed by my sexuality. 5. You attempted to heal my mother's mental illness with prayer while validating her racism. 6. You did all the things prior in this list. 7. you claimed to be a progressive rock church but didn't stand by your values and filled your wallets.
I couldn’t agree more, the church always stresses how important marriage is but they don’t lift a finger when it comes to making it happen among their congregants. Especially when considering the generational challenges.
I am one of three children raised in a household of a devout Catholic father and a mother who faithfully followed my father’s lead as spiritual head of the house despite not being Catholic herself. We took the faith seriously, lived out its teachings, and were taught that the values displayed by the family were rooted in the faith. All three of us kids are stronger in our faith today than at any point in our childhoods. Two of us our married and have 7 kids between our two families. A strong marriage and faithful adherence to the teaching is strongest way to pass along the faith to children.
I left Catholicism at the age of 18 and I've never been happier.
You'll be even happier when you return to the church that Jesus founded.
@@gbower44Amen I agree though I'm not a good catholic I'll always stand for it. Muslims and jews and other religions wear their outfits identifying their faith. I always wear my rosary to identify I'm catholic. I must pray it everyday which sometimes I don't. I must I remember a pope I believes Pope pios said give me an army praying the rosary and I will conquer the world.Amen please pray for me God bless you and your love ones
No people don't want to go to church and have the pastor's. Yell at them and the pastor's call Trump Christ Jesus who DIED on the golden cross in Texas twenty five years ago. That's why people stop going and asking money to help God Trump, that's why.
I really do wonder how much right wing and conservative Christianity is hurting real Christianity.
@@gfujigo ALOT.
Are you serious? I hadn’t heard about this golden cross. What’s this from? Yikes!!!
I'm a single canceled mom. It was Hard!! No one ever walked alongside us. I had 5 brothers who NEVER stepped up to the plate. Parents deceased. She is gone, doing her own thing. Young adult children abandoning their parents is at epidemic levels in this country. No one speaks of it. We were church attenders throughout. She went to Christian schools thru 12th grade. It can't ALL be My fault. Maybe the churches could have some programs, effective ones, for single moms and dads. No extra money, ever. Perhaps you invite us on your vacation, Sunday meal or periodic picnic so we both can experience 'family life'. I fault others in addition to myself.
I agree, single parents need to be accompanied BIG TIME
Talk to one of Jehovahs witnesses, they are a true family
@@IB4UUB4ME there also a cult'!!!!!!!!
@@user-bg1bk6pd6e how do you know, are you one? No? That’s what I thought, pls don’t speak on what you are ignorant of pls. Lol
Me...I'm sorry for your sadness and your pain. But, I prayed for you!
I’m in my 30s. My parents are in their 60s and have been married for over 40 years. All of us left religion.
May I ask what was the main reason and what religion it was. Thank u in advance.
@@omaryousifkamal4290 Probably because he thinks his holier than thou attitude is somehow better than every one else's.
I am a gay man. I left the Church because it was not a healthy environment for me. Hanging around people who think you are "disordered" is not healthy.
I left because of how I felt ostracized because I was different . Some churches are not friendly to lgbt members . Churches should be nicer to people that are different . Then they would feel comfortable going. Not saying you have to agree with my lifestyle just treat me with respect like you treat your friends
Church is the place you should get delivered from this sin not a place where you try to be a part of it without repentance
@@larrymcabee9379 you are exactly the reason why people stop going to church. You’re exactly like the Catholic Church imprisoning Galileo Galilei and stating that the sun spins around earth and not the other way around because it’s their interpretation of the Bible where Joshua orders the sun to stop. I am a homosexual and I know for a fact that I NEVER chose to be one and with a woman it would NEVER work for me. Therefore, whatever Paul wrote in the Bible either means something else (which in fact it does because it refers to male prostitutes) or it is pure bullshit. Since you insist that it refers to homosexuality, therefore it has to be bullshit because evidence contradicts your book. Therefore nobody who is a decent human being and a homosexual or anyone else with a little bit of brain left will choose to follow your religion and come to church. You preach bullshit and you’re simply hateful and intolerant. Good job on smearing so much crap on Jesus who preached salvation, forgiveness, and reconciliation instead.
@@larrymcabee9379 then watch your pews empty, and, good riddance.
@@joseluisromerojr8887 I think the OP is right. Jesus was a friend to sinners. Jesus did not approve of sin but sinners knew he loved them.
The house of God should be welcoming and loving to all people. Then it is through love that we help people live a life worthy of the calling of Christ. The Bible teaches that love is our greatest witness. Again, real love doesn’t mean agreement with everything someone is doing, and we must not ignore sin. Real love gives us all the space and encouragement to grow.
The OP is absolutely right.
Good points.
Correlation does not prove causation. Thus, the decline in marriage and church attendance may be unrelated. To investigate causation for church attendance, Edify should analyze the reasons those leaving churches give for leaving.
And what evidence do you have?
Numbers 31:17-18
King James Version
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
It's stuff like this that is causing Judeo-Christian beleifs to die out.
They did it to themselves with their own scripture.
Read this passage and imagine if it was one of your daughters that was taken, and your son's killed on the spot. bet you wouldn't be still saying god is "perfect"
Or maybe Christians wouldn't care, idk. They have surprised me with their hate many times.
And they think they are morally superior to us savage atheist heathens.
That's a good point. While children leaving the faith later most likely wouldn't be a cause for parents splitting up in the past, That's no reason to believe that both phenomena could be caused by a mutual issue. However, it has been extensively studied that family is the largest influence on the beliefs of children. And so if a family becomes fragmented, broken, and and less capable of teaching its core beliefs, then those beliefs would be open to influence by the next greatest factors: school, entertainment, friends, and news, 3/4s of which are currently monopolized by the atheistic leftist factions of our country. Stands to reason.
Nowadays, you CANNOT MARRY the modern women !! Not only are they all promiscous and lie behind your back, but they will take the house, the kids, AND CRUSH YOU !!!! The modern women want the traditional benefits in marriage while they interact with six different dating apps, tiktoks and endless social media account flooded with simps that puts them on a pedestal that and make them look like a freakin STAR !!! hell no !!! but no thank you !!! Men do genuinely want to fall in love, have kids, happy wife happy life, but this ain't the 60's anymore !!! You will get cheated on and legally robbed !!!
HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
I stopped believing in religion because the bible is ridiculous.
Perhaps the Church could spend that $4-6B on helping the poor. Actions speak louder than words.
The reason people are leaving the faith is a realization that there is no invisible, silent, sky daddy with a talking snake. people are no longer victims of indoctrination. They are learning science and can think critically! Life is perfectly fine without a magical wizard watching over you.
Lol you think you’re so smart just because you don’t believe in god 🤣
A great book responding to this is How Not to Read the Bible.
Wow, you,re screwed.hope you like it HOT.
HERE is The Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
@@Praise___YaH what do you mean by no female involved .?
Don't give your false pastor's another dime and run out of their churches and don't look back.
Also, the changes in the church. That was a big reason a great number of men just stopped going. I know because I was there.
More science and facts needed, less religious nuttery needed
I agree. Jesus was killed by religious nuts. Follow Jesus, not religion.
@Ramon Ribas "religious nuttery" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 l love it!
"Two great narcotics: alcohol and Christianity."
-Nietzsche
Today, it is alcohol and drugs. Opium is the opiate of the people now.
The mire educated and more independent a human, the less likely they are to believe religious nonsense.
You're probably young, we'll see who you're crying out to on your deathbed
Our little Church is growing! A couple months ago a drunk came in. We finally figured out he hung out at the bar down the street. Some of the men went to the bar to talk to this man and invite him back. He brought a whole bunch of ppl. We had 30 ppl at the alter on Sunday. And the phones are ringing. God is moving. We've got a small window of time here I think. Go bring them in!
We left church because must people are so unlike Jesus
Who is removing comments from your thread?
Happens all the time.
@@TaraJanes57 This is definitely a "flaw in the system". If this is supposed to be an "open forum" where different thoughts & ideas can be discussed & debated, allowing "editing" and even worse, "deleting" shouldn't happen.
I had a couple replies on one of my posts but when I hit it to reply back, post was gone. I just thought I couldn't see because others were replying.
This kind of video is most likely the reason i fell into a toxic relationship with a “christian” woman trying to forge a genuine relationship with deceit. She put marriage above all else. The engagement ultimately failed leaving me crushed. Many skeptics believe in commitment to a partner. And why is a lack of faith in one worldview so devastating to the world? Maybe in the age of information at our fingertips children are able to access ideas they hadn’t at an earlier age before.
Ecumenical churches... now I understand this video.
No body get away of Crist if they never get a real relationship.
Ecumenical are fixing what they destroyed in centuries pretending being the Crist's church....
You leave the church because you never belong to to the Crist's family...
You're probably better off. Some of your biggest whores are in the clubs on Saturday and church on Sunday. You find you about two or three good women w/o a whole bunch of baggage. Look at the dynamic of their 👪. What type of relationship does she have with her mother and father then sir you'll know what you're dealing with. Marriage is for suckers. 90% of divorce you lose.
So, let me get this straight; you're surprised you didn't get married after you
obedience
@@pjj0hns0n people were obey what they believed was right or thought was what they should be doing by the church or society that raised them rather than what was truly right.
That's not what the video is arguing
Along with the sexual revolution came freedom of choice within a marriage. Freedom for the abused, neglected, overworked, under appreciated, etc to find real happiness. Maybe if churches focused more on equality and self-fulfillment and enlightenment that might make a difference. Also, you are specifically forgetting all of the sexual abuses that started coming out around that time. The churches need to reinvent and re-organize their structure so they don’t perpetuate & protect predators. What kind of leadership does that? Certainly not a divine one. Then you have more information & less group think. No, I think the decline is in the bigotry, protecting predators, misogyny & control & fear mongering & people are done with it. How basic, to lay all that down to, “Just get married & stay married!” Fix the organizations to be divine & to be full of light & hope & inclusion & love.
🌸 Well said! 🌸
He hit the nail on the head.
Antichrist
God isn't all love... God is Wrath while Jesus is Love
I agree and I think the Church recognizes that they botched the handling of sex abuse in the Church. So many organizations did. I think God will judge them more harshly than lay people. The Church IS trying to correct itself. Let's try and forgive them as we are forgiven. They were truly embarrassed and ashamed and wanted to hide it all like Family might do. I believe they have learned from their mistakes and their mistakes are not depriving me of my faith. I will let God take care of them.
My church is packed every Mass every single mass is packed 🙏🌍🙏🌍🙏🌍🙏🌍🙏🌍🙏🌍🙏🌍🙏
Small children?🕸️
@@chopperbison8298 ...your disgusting truly you are .... May God have mercy on your soul 🙏🌍🙏🌍
With all the negativity displayed in response to this video I find it very interesting that these people took the time to listen. I’m a catholic revert more out of laziness. So food for thought.. when I realized my children were not learning their faith in a catholic school or high school ccd I became a catechist. When you have to take the time to dig deeper into church teaching so you answer questions correctly, you come to find out how beautiful our Lord’s/church teaching is. So all I want to say is God loves each of you and we all need God’s mercy.
In addition, youth being in the church doesn’t mean they haven’t left the faith.
I left the Christian faith quite sometime ago and still attend for 2 reasons:
1. My parents force me
2. I do enjoy hearing other people’s views
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@@I_Love_Chinese_Food not sure! I’m alright to say I don’t know for now.
I haven’t found anything to suggest the lack of an afterlife, but haven’t found evidence that there is one personally. If either ever comes along I am open to changing my views.
I do believe I have found holes in the bible, which led me out of the faith.
Guilt and fear. The tools use the hold the church together.
@@Blio_ I'm curious about your study of the Bible. You've discovered problems with it?
@@dnzswithwombats Don’t think I’m a scholar, I’m still in highschool, but I have taken inspiration from people with hefty biblical education.
My main issue is that, from what I’ve seen, God cannot be both all-knowing and all-loving.
If he is all knowing, there is no such thing as free will as all our choices will already be predicted well before we are born.
If God is all-knowing, he creates people fully knowing he will send them to hell and that there is no hope for them to enter heaven.
I don’t think this is anything close to benevolence.
Additionally, the apposing religious sects imply that people are able to interpret the bible differently.
Would a perfect God not be able to create a medium to communicate with his people so there could be no misinterpretations?
I’ve heard of arguments against this like “The technology just didn’t exist back then.” or “It’s our fault for misinterpreting the texts in the first place.”
But wouldn’t an all-power full god be able to create a technology for this? If God were capable of *ALL* things he would be able to communicate in such a way where miscommunication would be impossible to anyone at all?
Unless he intentionally wanted us to be confused? There seems to be no reason for him to do that, so why is it able to be misinterpreted?
To me, the most likely reason is that there was no all-powerful god there to inspire it in the first place.
I thought that you were going to tell us the real reason young people are leaving the faith but you didn't mention it.
It would be awesome to have a normal way of meeting someone other than people turning to dating apps. Attendance would be greatly improved if the church would be more accepting of singles. Everything in church revolves around the married and with children. If you are single they shun you. If you are married with no children you are shunned as well. Their needs to be activities and acceptance for both of these groups.
Exactly because all they care about is numbers. fewer people means fewer dollars
Yup. Church (esp. Christian churches) nowadays remind me of high school: very cliquish. The popular kids are the pastors, deacons, their spouses, staffers, and their families. If you're a single male or a divorced female (with kids), they definitely shunned you, no cap. 🧢💯🤙
You are right. All it takes is one girl to get offended at a church "singles meeting". Then the church is ripe for a lawsuit. They're just reacting to the litigious situation by reducing their risk, so therefore the result is more loneliness for singles.
Young people are more informed on facts than there parents due to the age of information . They are able to fact check a pastor n or preacher giving there interpretation of a book written by guys telling stories !
My parents didn't devorce til I was in my mid 20s.
Of course my sister and I encouraged the Divorce 😁😂
I was doubting god while I was still in a married house.
Same here!
People now days do not easily get fooled or follow old teachings. People are now doing their diligent research on these organized religions. All these organized religions have four things in common. 1) They collect tithes (some churches have three services in one day) or have gatherings three days out of a week, and don’t pay any taxes. 2) They all have big universities charging students thousands of dollars. 3) They all have big hospitals dealing with insurance ( again, over charging patients ) companies and big pharmaceutical companies selling their drugs and what not. 4) Fourth but not least, they all have big real estate companies - own lots of real estates and hotels...all equal to wealth. Now this begs the question, does GOD or JESUS need money after all these thousands of years? This sounds like, it’s the people that needs money.
A big problem is the amount of money it takes to stay alive. Also the hours any more are hard to work with. Businesses are open Sundays and require help to be there. They don't care about the employees religious needs. Church's are going to have think and work differently than they have.
This is a profoundly limited explanation for the decline in attendance. There is a significant difference between a church and THE CHURCH. The two seem to be getting further apart each year.
There may be a decline in marriage rates but the quality of those marriages are up. Religion may be on the decline for now but I think that is a good thing overall.
Or. It's because the youths, and us olders, have come to learn that what you preach is the biggest ongoing con on humanity in the known history of the world. Maybe that's why.
What is the con? I am curious.
@@gfujigo False promises. So many evangelicals have tried to predict when this “Jesus” fellow would return, after about a million years. Thousands of people are murdered, raped, tortured, and physically harmed in some way, and this “God” doesn't intervene (divine intervention). There are several contradictions in the source material, the Bible. One being that “God makes mistakes or has regrets” and the other being that “God regretted creating mankind”. Sounds like a contradiction to me. You have people attending this one place called the Church to worship and pray to this omnibenevolent being, who's invisible and does basically nothing when called on, yet he's supposed to be everywhere, right? So, why go to Church to pray there? Shouldn't you be able to pray everywhere? So many religious people have used religion to justify racism, slavery, homophobia, and many more prejudices but cannot explain why God wants us to feel bad that Jesus died for our sins, yet he didn't stay dead for long and became immortal. He basically sent his only son to be killed (because he could see the future but still got pissed when his son was nailed to the Cross). This “God” loves us so much that he won't let us know when we are wrong but will torture us in eternal flames forever if we are wrong, even if we don't know any better. He never revealed himself to set things straight and left us here to die from all the viruses, nuclear weapons, and shootings going on in the world. That's the con.
It couldn’t be the insane cost of living for young people and the need to work 80 hours a week to hardly cover there expenses. Than waist what little free time they have listening to grown men beg for them to give them money they don’t have to give and guilt them for every little thing. The death of religion is the best thing that can happen to this country. Not to mention the insane amount of sexual misconduct in churches across the country.
This is a good point as well. People my age quite literally are struggling to stay alive in our broken economy. I’d go so far as to argue even the people this economy used to work for are starting to feel the hurt. As my parents, and other family members their age or older are starting to suffer from this too. The poverty line keeps going up, as our financial value tanks.
@@skyeguy7914 young people are also much smarter than they are given credit for. Unfortunately for religion intelligence is enemy #1. Churches prey on the week and dumb
@@skyeguy7914 gee if only there were organizations that gave money for free
@@night6724 if you’re referring to churches, I’ve relied on that before, guess what, they did as little to help as the possibly could. If you’re referring to organized systems like welfare, you clearly haven’t applied for them before, because it’s not that easy or that simple. Plus you seem the type to constantly belittle people who have to rely on that sort of thing, so I wouldn’t put it past you to actively being a smug contrarian for your own peace of mind.
@@skyeguy7914 except studies have proven charity is far more effective than welfare. Why did they “do as little as possible” to help? And what have you done for charity mr high and mighty? You are selfish and only care about yourself
People are getting smarter!
No their not. The world is getting worse and more evil
@@barryhessel6078 Stop preaching Hate ! Try Peace Love and tolerance of those we don’t agree with ! When it comes to fairy tales like stories in your Bible ! I like the one about little red riding hood better !
@@barryhessel6078 We are in the end times my friend... Western Christianity is collapsing thanks to the radical leftist globalists
@@100secondworkout okay, Jesus loves you.
@@phoebedigs1356 Jesus was about Love ! Evil Man is about Religion and Control of mankind for profit!
Stop blaming young people for your failures.
People are Leaving because Churches are being seen for what they are. No more hiding behind the Bible
I agree with the sentiment but not the evidence. Correlation doesn’t equal causation.
What’s your solution?
@@Atomic-jelly2.093 exactly and you can still be a good parent and person.
My parents have been married 45 years and my extended family includes multiple pastors, but I still do not believe. Religion is unneeded. Marriage is a personal choice between twi people and the churches have shown they are universally hypocritical on many issues. Why bother!?
Hey. Things change. Christianity had a good (?) run. It’s over now.
The 60s only showed people that they didn’t have to live a lie. They didn’t have to conform. They didn’t have to remain loyal to anything that was harmful to them or society. They had a choice.
I think all of these things are good. Christianity is not surviving these changes. Don’t feel bad, lots of other religions did not survive changes in history. That’s just the way it is.
I don’t think Christianity is going to disappear absolutely but I do see it diminishing because of the hypocrisy and it’s unwillingness to address cultural and political perversions, despite how amazing it’s founder was. Religions like Buddhism and Hinduism have been around since before Christianity; and despite the invasion of Islam, have still persisted. Time will tell though.
People are leaving the church because they’re starting to see through the b.s.
My Grandparents are Silent Generation.. They argue the decline started with Baby Boomers in the mid 60s
It's to dangerous for men to marry these days, unless the church wants to take the brunt of cost of them losing everything when the woman gets bored of the marriage.
Religious people are in denial as to why so many people are leaving the faith. This video is just one more example.
From my experience only, in talking with young people, marriage has nothing to do with it. They just don’t like the control and manipulation, the hypocrisy of the elders and the “pretend” love that only comes if you give the sufficient amount of money and volunteer the sufficient amount of hours to the church. The judgmental hounding, disapproving eye. These things do nothing to prove to young people that “Christians” worship a “Loving” God.
I left the church in my early 20s because of the hypocrisy. I found that many “Christians” were just horrible people. My wife left the church later because of the judgmental elders.
I think this guy is way off. Ask people why they left the church and you’ll find out that most leave because “Christians”
Uh, rational thinking recognizing a scam?
The largest pyramide scheme ever
I got sick of hearing that Christians need to be materialistic, hedonistic, & narcissistic like many’s false political idols when Jesus Christ was against all three. I left the church, but I haven’t left Christ nor has He left me. I don’t have to be a man’s chattel to be loved by my savior & my redeemer. You quoted a woman - was she married & the mother of children? The Episcopal Church does not say I have to be married & have children. Thank you.
Treaty of Tripoli
Begun by George Washington, signed by John Adams and ratified unanimously by a Senate still half-filled with signers of the Constitution, this treaty announced firmly and flatly to the world that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
IT'S ONLY A MYTH AND NOTHING ELSE .
Since the pandemic people have realized that they didn't go to church to worship, they went for the community. The sense of belonging. Now, people realize that they can get that community without fearmongering and being told to condemn and hate people for not believing the same thing they do.
Also, the rampant sexual abuse (and victim blaming) that so many churches try to cover up kinda puts a damper on anyone wanting to attend.
Marriage (or lack thereof) has little to nothing to do with our youth leaving their faith. In the past, people either never questioned their faith or, if they did, they had almost no one with whom to talk with about it. Now there is the internet, which will be the death knoll for religion. The nones now make up about 30% of the US, which has now surpassed the largest religious category (ahead of evangelical Protestants & Catholics). That’s an astronomical rise in that category & matching decline in the various religious categories. This will only continue to grow in the future. I imagine in the next 10-20 years we’ll see the ‘none’ category grow to 50% or higher, probably topping out at about 70% in 30-40 years as religion dies and atheism becomes the norm. Amen to that.
I agree.
The world is completely lost without God! The youth in our nation were brought up without God,in the home! They are lost and confused , about the simplest things! They grow up without praying to God,and they become prideful and don't think they need God, and they actually think they know more than he does! God created the UNIVERSE and the world, 🌍 humans aren't capable of doing anything God can do, without him allowing it! We are able to have children, and create life with a spouse, because God wants us to!
We can't make trees or flowers and when we do there plastic! Satan's job is to create mass confusion, because he is the Master of CHOAS! Many people are falling for the Evil, but one day Jesus Christ will return and all will witness this! 🙏🏻
I’d sure hope not
You will eat those words. Voltaire famously asserted the same in his time centuries ago. The gates of hell will not prevail against the church - and gates are a thing for being on the defensive, not on the offensive.
So much anger when it comes to the topic of religion. Maybe that's why people stay at home in their pajamas on Sunday morning.
I’m Gen Z (1997) and believe in Jesus Christ! He is my Lord and Savior!❤
I still believe in God but I have absolutely no use for organized religion. Those days are long gone.
I believe you . Pretty scary and sad . I’ve founded that in church politics is also a large problem .
Education and Science plus the internet.
That's how faith dies. Beautiful.
Not just education and science, but also the hypocrisy of the church itself.. Several sects claim persecution while also actively trying to persecute others.
Makes sense to me. If the parents are divorced, that means only 1 parent indoctrinates them instead of 2.
Or young people have information than ever that baby boomers have
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It's good to hear that billions are spent on youth ministry, since I've heard homicidal language preached from the pulpit and directed at innocent youth born outside of wedlock.
Because they're full of the flesh instead of the Spirit.
Buddhism is better! Pagans are better! Indigenous beliefs are better!
If you need more proof that religion, especially Christianity is dying, just look at this video's copium
Had both parents who taught me to think for myself. Now I’m a proud atheist and will raise my kids the same way
So, the wedding is the bedrock of Roman Catholicism, and all of this is led by men who vow never to marry anything other than “The Church,” which, let’s face it, is an extremely amorphous “bride.” If marriage is the beginning and end of the Christian faith, then what does that say about lay people who, by choice or circumstance, live single lives? They are less valued. There is a TON of hypocrisy in all denominations, and this blinders-on video demonstrates that Roman Catholics are also full to the brim with hypocrisy. Can’t you see the logs in your eyes?
I grew up in a very loving baby-boomer Christian family. Of five sons, all of us accepted Jesus, all of us were baptized, three of us went to seminary, one wrote worship music, another was a canon to the ordinary. Today, none of these sons attended church and have no desire to. Just saying.
My parents are happily married and I STILL left the Catholic church and couldn’t be happier! I could no longer blindly believe in book that has NOTHING to do with reality! Talking snakes, people rising from the dead, etc. Christianity is an insult to human intelligence!
Because there is no god. People are starting to wake up to this . I am not against people who want to practice their religion. They are free to do so. I have been married to my wife for 20 years and we don’t need a god or a church to let us know how much we love each other.
You will see one day God is real as you or I.