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10 November 2007 - 1 כסלו 5768 by Huw
Can Christianity Today really be this dumb?
The most interesting and surprising feature of emerging adults’ religious beliefs is how little relationship there is between the religious training they received throughout childhood and the religious beliefs they hold at the time they reach emerging adulthood … . In statistical analyses [of interview subjects' answers], there was no relationship between exposure to religious training in childhood and any aspect of their religious beliefs as emerging adults … . This is a different pattern than is found in adolescence [which reflects greater continuity]… Evidently something changes between adolescence and emerging adulthood that dissolves the link between the religious beliefs of parents and the beliefs of their children [My emphasis - DHR]
Do you really wonder what that is? OMG. It’s called growing up - most people manage to do it in spite of their parents. Questioning and rejecting the often out-dated assumptions of one’s parents is an important part of growing up, as is, equally, accepting the one’s that still work. One often tosses out the Baby with the Bathwater and then spends time reclaiming the baby… if that makes metaphoric sense.
The choice of the parents is to accept and love, or ask really silly questions like “Why did my child grow up?”
(Props to Episcopal Cafe.)
