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Why Catholics are leaving the faith by age 10 – and what parents can do about it
“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 Doctor Mark Gray, a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
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It's obvious the church is fighting a losing battle, with science being ever more accessible and the internet being on every phone it's inevitable that kids will question their faith.
This is true. Really,there is nothing parents can do about it cause by the time one reaches that age,the ability to reason and think for yourself kicks in.
Yeah there is. Look at abortion and women who have died due to the churce's stance on it.
it told me to turn off my adblocker,so I used the FF reader to bypass their adblock rant and read it anyway.
Fun fact, until 1907 the Catholic Church actually distinguished between early and late-term abortions, an early term was a sin, some Hail Mary's and a penance and you were forgiven, late-term was murder and you got excommunicated... in 1917 with the introduction of the Code of Canon Law that changed so that all abortion was murder and excommunicable.
Ok, so, there's a crisis because kids are saying that they need evidence for the bullshit they're being told to believe. Sometimes, at least briefly, I have a glimpse of hope for humankind.
10 yrs old is about the time that Catholic kids are told that they need to start eating Zombie Jesus Flesh Bread to avoid being barbecued forever in hell, and I'm gonna stop here before I start coming up with hypotheses about priests and kids confessing their sins to them. There's already enough out there in the news.
A study was done on the belief that priests were all predators and it was found that they have the same percentage as the rest of the population. Just because you don't believe what they do doesn't mean they're all monsters.
As for "zombie Jesus flesh" it's funny that Catholics are one of the two that hold this to be true, Lutherans and Anglicans hold that Jesus is present in and around the Eucharist, but the BIBLE IS THE TRUTH AND THE WAY people, Baptists I'm looking at you, scream The bible is the truth and everything it says shall be done... oh that whole section about this is my body eat it and this is my blood drink it... that's symbolism ya'll.
It's cannibalism too...Gross. My kin,who are church of christ also believe everything the bible says is true. They have some pretty strange ideas as well.