(His whole argument is stupid anyway -- since when did people, especially teenagers, have such trouble finding somewhere to socialise that they had to go to church even when, all other things being equal, they would not have gone there? Why do computers suddenly enable churches to be replaced as social venues -- are there no coffee shops, no diners, no street corners out on which to hang?
What we're probably seeing is that the generation he calls 'Generation X' went to church even though they didn't want to because of parental pressure as there parents attended, and later on drifted gradually (in a population sense) away from the church as the became independent from their parents. Now there's what he calls 'Generation Y' who have 'Generation X'-ers as their parents, that parental pressure isn't there so they never go to church in the first place, thus causing the sharp generational drop-off.
But that's too simple, too obvious, and too not-involving cool-buzzwords for him.)
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Date: 2010-03-09 04:23 pm (UTC)What we're probably seeing is that the generation he calls 'Generation X' went to church even though they didn't want to because of parental pressure as there parents attended, and later on drifted gradually (in a population sense) away from the church as the became independent from their parents. Now there's what he calls 'Generation Y' who have 'Generation X'-ers as their parents, that parental pressure isn't there so they never go to church in the first place, thus causing the sharp generational drop-off.
But that's too simple, too obvious, and too not-involving cool-buzzwords for him.)
S.