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When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “anti-homosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christians, this was the first word that came to their mind when asked about the Christian faith. The same was true for 80 percent of young churchgoers. (The next most common negative images? “Judgmental,” “hypocritical,” and “too involved in politics.”
In the book that documents these findings, titled unChristian, David Kinnaman writes:
The gay issue has become the ‘big one, the negative image most likely to be intertwined with Christianity’s reputation. It is also the dimensions that most clearly demonstrates the unchristian faith to young people today, surfacing in a spate of negative perceptions: judgmental, bigoted, sheltered, right-wingers, hypocritical, insincere, and uncaring. Outsiders say [Christian] hostility toward gays…has become virtually synonymous with the Christian faith.
Later research, documented in Kinnaman’s You Lost Me, reveals that one of the top reasons 59 percent of young adults with a Christian background have left the church is because they perceive the church to be too exclusive, particularly regarding their LGBT friends. Eight million twenty-somethings have left the church, and this is one reason why.
Just curious.
Well, since they also love their fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, nephews, etc. I would say that loving God in that sense would not be a problem.
It's the "in love" that they are opposing.
8,000,000.
I find that figure quite sobering.
I believe you are correct.
You never meet Hitler or Stalin; would you love them??Just curious.
And telling.8,000,000.
I find that figure quite sobering.
You never meet Hitler or Stalin; would you love them??Just curious.
Just curious.