This was reported tonight on Facebook and probably is accurate. I have mixed feelings about this generational response to abandonment of religious tradition.
A New Age requires new faiths, and faiths, the face, language and name of God change to reflect the changing times. That is some of what is at work here.
One movie about Merlin the magician noted that if Queen Mab lost her worshippers to Christianity, she would cease to exist. I do not believe that if future generations abandon traditional faiths, that those deities die. Being ignored is not the same as going extinct.
If the Millennials are simply fragmented and anomic, without spiritual and moral bearings, then their abandoning traditional, organized faiths followed by their parents is a perilous loss of wholesome customs being passed on.
For each generation is born depraved and sin grievously and helplessly. Organized faith at least offered them faith and ethics so that they could limp along in their dull, groupist, nonindiviudator way. Collectivist ethics, at its finest, provides the people with civilized living of a minimal kind.
If Millennials were abandoning organized religion as they also abandoned all institutions as corrupt, outmoded and irrelevant, that could be a golden opportunity for a Mavellonialist prophet like I am to step in and provide them with non-institutional, non-organized systems of worship and ethics that grow out of what their parents offered. With my systems, they would not be trapped by the bureaucracies that bound their parents to living nonindividuated lives in groups.
When the youths voluntarily forsake all institutional living and affiliating, the anarchist lifestyle of an individuator and non-joiner is tailor-made to satisfy their futuristic appetites.
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