Monday, 8 July 2013

‘Social justice’ apart from evangelization drives youth away from Christianity, says new study

BY PETER BAKLINSKI

July 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a Christian apologetics ministry asked college atheists nationwide why they had abandoned religion, it was “startled” by the responses.

“Most of our participants had not chosen their worldview from ideologically neutral positions at all, but in reaction to Christianity. Not Islam. Not Buddhism. Christianity,” wrote Larry Alex Taunton, founder and executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation, in a piece that appeared in The Atlantic last month.

Atheists revealed that while many of them grew up attending church where they heard “plenty of messages encouraging ‘social justice,’ community involvement, and ‘being good’…they seldom saw the relationship between that message, Jesus Christ, and the Bible.”

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