Why Catholics Are Leaving The Faith By Age 10 – And What Parents Can Do

[Fweethawt]

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Washington D.C., Sep 5, 2016 / 04:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Young Catholics are leaving the faith at an early age – sometimes before the age of 10 – and their reasons are deeper than being “bored at Mass,” the author of a new report claims.

 

“Those that are leaving for no religion – and a pretty big component of them saying they are atheist or agnostic – it turns out that when you probe a bit more deeply and you allow them to talk in their own words, that they are bringing up things that are related to science and a need for evidence and a need for proof,” said Dr. Mark Gray, a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

 

“It’s almost a crisis in faith,” he told CNA. “In the whole concept of faith, this is a generation that is struggling with faith in ways that we haven’t seen in previous generations.”

[Geezer]

Is education finally overcoming faith (belief without evidence)?

[♦ ficino ♦]

Wow, a lot of 10-year-olds hurt by people at church, mad at God, and loving sin. Maybe they need to spend more time alone, one-on-one with their parish priest.

[pantheory]

Wow, a lot of 10-year-olds hurt by people at church, mad at God, and loving sin. Maybe they need to spend more time alone, one-on-one with their parish priest.

 

Yeah, 10 years old seems too young for making well-thought-out decisions. It seems more like rebellion than clear thinking. Hopefully most would be leaving the church with their parents. Yes, IMO the trend is excellent, but I would prefer that the fallout would relate to teenagers and older parishioners steadily leaving religion in general rather than any particular branch of Christianity.

[florduh]

Perhaps they are sounding the alarm now because the priests are running out of young boys to diddle. Just a theory. 

[older]

Farther down in the article, a Catholic priest is quoted as saying, "It was the Christian faith that was the birthplace of science." He also said the Church needs to "[C]ontinue to highlight its support for the sciences, which were, for the most part, an initial product of the work done in Catholic universities hundreds of years ago.”

 

I'd like to hear more of this curious argument. I think Galileo would have some interesting things to say about this. Math is a part of science, and the Greeks and the Arab world were busy with that far before the Christian era. Also, much visual astronomy was conducted in the Arab world; I think most of the names of the visible stars are Arabic in origin. And significant discoveries were also made in the Orient including the concept of true north, the diagnosis and cause of diabetes (2 B.C.), and an accurate calculation of Pi that stood for about 1000 years.

 

The article also tries to justify it's stance by pointing out that Stephen Hawking is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science. True, but Hawking is an atheist.

[Jeff]

Shit. They tortured scientists. You're dead church.

[♦ ficino ♦]

Farther down in the article, a Catholic priest is quoted as saying, "It was the Christian faith that was the birthplace of science." He also said the Church needs to "[C]ontinue to highlight its support for the sciences, which were, for the most part, an initial product of the work done in Catholic universities hundreds of years ago.”

 

I'd like to hear more of this curious argument.

Both Catholic and Protestant apologists are fond of saying that this, that or the other important part of our culture was made possible by the presuppositions behind Christian theism. As for science, they like to say that only on belief in a single creator God who establishes uniformity of processes in nature can nature be studied. If we have a plethora of warring gods as in Homer, interfering with the world and with each others' domains, why then, bejeez, ANYTHING might happen and we couldn't assume that processes obey laws.

[Tsathoggua]

Perhaps they are sounding the alarm now because the priests are running out of young boys to diddle. Just a theory. 

 

That's what I was thinking! Prepubescent boys leavin' the church -- why, that the priests' worst nightmare!