Via Pam’s House Blend:
The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) says he is disturbed that many students in both public and private schools — even Christian private schools — are leaving the church once they graduate.
In 2002, the SBC’s Council on Family Life reported that roughly 88 percent of evangelical children are leaving the church shortly after they graduate from high school. Dr. Frank Page, the denomination’s new president, says SBC churches need to counter that statistic by finding ways to make themselves more relatable, more pertinent and significant to students before they graduate.
“We’re seeing a societal trend where a large number of young people are opting out of the church,” Page notes. “Estimates of 15 to 20 million people now in America have said they are Christians but they simply don’t want to be a part of the church,” he says.
And in related news:
A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of Americans age 18 to 24 found Bush’s approval rating was 20 percent, with 53 percent disapproving and 28 percent with no opinion. That compares to a 40 percent approval rating among Americans of all ages in a separate Bloomberg/Times poll.
Wonder of wonders! Ipods are available in the OLD SOUTH and are having an impact on the “unlettered Masses” very similar to the effects on the same masses of the unlettered that was experienced WORLD WIDE with the advent of the $2.98-Toshiba Transistor Radio which made Information available to the “underclasses” of the world on a scale heretofore undreamed of.
The youth of the OLD SOUTH are quite as capable of “figuring things out” given access to Information, as are any comparable group ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, so it should come as no great surprise that the YOUNG of the OLD SOUTH are now crying “BULLSHIT’ to the brainwashing that has allowed the “ruling elite” of the OLD SOUTH to maintain their hold on the power to ENSLAVE THEIR OWN PEOPLE for over two hundred years…Ain’t that amazin”?