Nobody Will Mourn

Timothy Birdnow

Cotton candy may be a nice treat when you are at the fair, but who wants it for a steady diet?

A Failed Worldly ‘Strategy’: Shallow Entertainment and Comprimise Isn’t Keeping Young People in Churches

Church is boring. It's primary redeeming feature is it's redeeming feature; it is about the ultimate destiny of our souls, the purpose of our lives, and how to live to be contented here and happy in eternity. It's about the permanent things, the deeper things. The mechanics of it are dull and there isn't really a good way around that. I've long said experiential churches are ultimately doomed to fail because they are based solely on emotion and not on the deeper aspects of faith. You can only work yourself up so much. Sadly, most churches do not even have that, instead they attempt to entertain with music and pop culture and contentless, inoffensive sermons that inspire nobody.

People don't suffer martyrdom for DEI or "all you need is love" drivel. They do so because they have seen a higher truth, have committed themselves to a cause greater than they.

Ask yourself if you would stand with your faith to your death; if no why not? If it's because your faith is one that is in friendship with the world then you are not alone; most people probably find it so. But young people in particular want real Faith, something to believe in that transcends space and time and culture and fashion. They want to be willing to die for their faith. Nobody is going to die for hippie guitar masses and fake smiles.

The Left has long sought to destroy Christianity and they have fooled many into believing the Church needs to be more "in tune with the world" when in fact that is the opposite. Why go to church and be bored when you can do something more fun, like go night-clubbing or drink beer at a sports bar? If you try to compete with the world with worldly things you will lose. The Left understood this which is why they labored to get liberals into positions of authority in the churches. Christianity that is not centered entirely on the Cross and on eternity will wither awway and they know it.

Then what? Being ruderless and in need of spiritual purpose the young will turn to political activism in a vain attempt to create paradise on Earth. They will committ themselves as only young people can to the cause of advancing socialism and world government - just as the Left has always wanted. It will become their new religion.

And in fact that has happened in many places. In Britain:

Jedi is, of course, a made up religion from a movie. But these young folks have been told Christianity sucks, and their ministers have done nothing to disabuse them of that notion, so there you go. And less than half of Britain now calls itself Christian ( 46.2%). The Church of England, having eschewed most of the "judgy" things in the Bible and in their tradition, now offers cotton candy and liberalism and the result is the church is dying. People are more apt to pretend to be followers of a movie religion than actually believe in the Creator of all things and His son, the savior of the whole world. Pathetic.

Human beings need a purpose. Over the last quarter of a century we've taken a sense of purpose away from the young, giving them instead amusements and paranoid, safe spaces. The end result is ennui, which the young generation is chock-full of. They find everything boring because everything IS boring; life is boring. What makes life interesting are the Permanent Things. We've taken those and given them an artificial, sanitized, bland empty world. There is no meaning in a world without Christ.

It's why all the things we see now, the transgenderims, the rise in homosexuality, the lack of desire to participate in life (such as getting a driver's license or moving out on their own) have all arisen; these kids suffer from anomie and the amusements that were supposed to take the place of religion have paled. There is little to interest them. That's why they shoot up schools or committ other acts of violence; they are looking to FEEL something. They are numb.

And unless they find Christ they will be number. Fortunately we are seeing a major revival in Christianity among the young these days; they are looking to God for more than this.

But the world is powerful and tempting and many won't go there, and those that do may fall away in time. Christianity is not experiential; you have to work at it, and you have to sacrifice and suffer. It's part of the deal.

At any rate the feel-good Christianity that has dominated our churches appears to be dying. And nobody will mourn it.

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