Reply #11: It all depends on where you look. There are many young people [View All]

[DemBones DemBones]

who are very involved with the Christian faith. Many college students spend their spring breaks and summers helping disaster victims or others in need, at their own expense. That's been the case for decades. Mr. Bones and I have taught at four colleges over the past thirty-five years so we've had contact with thousands of college students. We also see a lot of young people within our own church who are enthusiastic about their faith.

It's always been true that a lot of kids lose their religion when they go to college but also true that many regain it later in life. I'm not surprised that a study shows that a lot of 16-early 30 something people are not religious. That was true for boomers and probably for our parents' generation as well.

Check with them again in ten to twenty years and many will have reconciled with God. Many of those will not be in the same denomination they were raised in but they will be Christian. Others will be Buddhists or follow other non-Christian religions.