Many young adults seem to be moving away from organized religion while simultaneously trying desperately to connect with their spirituality….
A report entitled “Religion Among the Millennials” produced by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life and released this week found that one in four people 18 to 29 years old are unaffiliated with a religion. But that by no means makes them all atheists or agnostics. While there are always religious people among the unaffiliated, the numbers are significantly higher among the younger unaffiliated crowd. While they are less likely than those unaffiliated and older than them to believe in God, they are more likely to believe in life after death, heaven and hell, and miracles.
So, anyone laboring under the delusion that the generation weaned on MTV would move us closer to being weaned of an abnormally high level of religiosity ”” at least when compared with other industrialized countries ”” may have to keep waiting.
What a shallow article. What is spiritual? How does the author define it? He doesn’t. You can have many different spiritualities ranging from Christian to devil worship, nature worship or self worship. What sets this apart from the non-spiritual (is this a natural materialistic worldview or what)? The article is full of so many undefined terms I have no idea what it is saying.
The lightness of being spiritual. So very TEC.
If you want to see a really fun take on a modern “spiritual” couple, take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNOuVhn_yRw