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Old Oct 8, 2006, 11:46 am   #5 (permalink) (top)
CoffeeSaint
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Christianity's numbers may be dwindling, but I hardly think they are being oppressed. In my experience, the majority of teenagers in my classes have considered themselves Christian, though many of them do not go to church and so assuredly would not qualify as "bible-believing" Christians (or whatever awkward term they used to replace "fundamentalist"). But I doubt that is any different than teenagers of twenty, thirty, forty years ago: most call themselves Christians, few read the Bible or go to church/follow the Commandments. Some of the teens today will grow more rigidly religious as they age, some will grow less; many of them will stay vaguely denominational and attend church on Christmas and Easter. I doubt Christianity's overall numbers will change very much.


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