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I think my generation will positively change the social and political landscape of America. Generally I believe that my generation swings farther left than previous generations which is a positive thing for America, and more importantly, the whole globe in the future.
Posted by: Mark-Anthony | January 4, 2007 12:59 AM
Judy,
Thank you for presenting this program through the Lerher News Hour. Tonight is the first segment I have watched. It had to do with the generation-next and religion. I came to the net to try and copy some of the dialogue that was presented. I hope to find some the information tomorrow. I am Presbyterian and am interested in your feedback on how some of them feel about mainline "organized" churches.
Posted by: Pat Tomlins | January 4, 2007 3:17 PM
Judy:
As a non theistic Secular Humanist I
am amazed at the degree to which Religionists hold
them selves captive
to their myriad beliefs.
Hopefully you will see fit to deal with the youngs attitude toward developing a
world view without a need for a "God"concept.
Moral behavior does
exist without a "God" or religion. The media
does tend to give that short shrift however.
emanuel
Posted by: emanuel klein | January 4, 2007 4:39 PM
Judy,
I think your perspective is very one-sided. If you visited a Catholic college such as Franciscan University, rather than an Evangelical college like Baylor, you would have seen many Roman Catholics who love the Church and agree with the the Scriptures' teachings. I feel this was a very elementary and simple-minded presentation.
Benjamin
Posted by: Benjamin | January 4, 2007 9:15 PM
That the youth of today are sooo naive to believe such stuff is sad. Especially for the 'educated' class. I hope Judy will find a more mature sample next time. Jeff in Seattle
Posted by: Jeff Douthwaite | January 4, 2007 10:26 PM
I am from West Michigan, raised in a strict Christian Reformed church. Our family took turns every night reading the bible after dinner(one chapter each night). At sixteen, we were encouraged to explore other religions, just so we went to a church. I had many Catholic friends, as well as friends from other faiths, and learned quite a bit from bouncing around. I was struck by the comment of what one young black lady said in your show. I can't quote her, but basically she said that organized religion perverts the truth of God as she understands Him. I concur. I have learned that God is about God being good to we sinners, and if it is His will, to be good through us to others. And if not, that is also His will. I would encourage anyone of our generation to keep "knocking at the door" until you find your answer. And, if it doesn't make sense, trust that God is telling you something, Knock on another door.
Posted by: Brent A. Larsen | January 5, 2007 12:58 PM
Response to Jeff Douthwaite's Jan. 4
comment:
Studies show that religious adherence does DECREASE with level of education.
Read Dr. Michael Shermer's "Why we believe" for references to that.
"Home Schooling" may defeat that however. Would evolution get fair treatment in a Home School curiculum, if treated at all?
emanuel
Posted by: Emanuel Klein | January 5, 2007 8:49 PM
The power behind the reshaping of religion is God. Remember him? He takes history in the direction which serves his purpose, religion is just a part of the process.
Posted by: Elizabeth Carano | January 5, 2007 10:23 PM
I make it a point not to listen to presentations about religion, but am curious if our future generations will take a stand for the future of mankind, or continue down the trail of blind obedience in church and state. From their comments I can tell that generation next is smarter than the sheep of they are made out to be.
Posted by: Josef Pfauntsch | January 6, 2007 6:13 PM
Responding to comment above by Josef Pfauntsch on Jan. 6 : if you choose not to become knowledgeable as offered in presentations about religion you will not pick up on
Christian Reconstructionist
[also referred to as Dominionism]efforts in America
toward establishing a biblical based Theocracy for this country.
Hopefully "Generation Next" is getting clued in on this. That is unless you and they wish to return to "stoning" as a form of religious
so called justice for Americans.
Posted by: Emanuel Klein | January 7, 2007 3:29 PM
Religion is a matter of choice nomater the religion all have come to say there is only one god... Man kind through out history has foght wars after war in the name of religion... Even the war we find ourselves into tady is in part about religion .One of the ten commandments is that we shall not kill . but from with I gather this is not the case when fighting in the name of god . The truth is that god has nothing to do with the hate man feels about other men but tells us to love or brothers and turn the other cheek
Posted by: marty R | January 7, 2007 8:59 PM
being an earth advocate,i think the human race can do much better than just leaving our fate up to a god we no nothing, if anything about. we are taking a gamble with our future an it may not be in our favor.
Posted by: melody geyer | January 7, 2007 10:37 PM
The perspective that Judy represents does not fit young Catholics. Catholics in their early 20's are more traditional and orthodox than previous generations. We are loyal to the teachings of the Pope and are more interested in pre-vatican II liturgy and spirituality.
Posted by: Rafael Jovel | January 8, 2007 4:25 AM
As I consider Judy's "Generation Next" concept it occurs to me to consider a second part to it namely
the oldest living of us.
Why? Because my part of Generation Next is next by virtue of our upcoming next big event, DEATH.
Since my age group
is allegedly super
conservative & hyper religious, our departure from the American playing field should have the effect of accentuating the
moderating effect of the 26 y.o. & below in age in our population as a whole.
also:comment for Rafael Jovel's statement above...
is that your opinion or can you cite study(s) that
support your conservative contention?
Posted by: emanuel klein | January 8, 2007 6:26 PM
I don't know of any studies done on young Catholics but it is my experience that young Catholics are moving towards orthodoxy. If you look on Catholic blogs and visit Catholic events you can see the trend. We are of coarse different from the rest of our generation which is trending towards liberalism.
Posted by: Rafael Jovel | January 8, 2007 11:07 PM
I think that this is just being blown out of proportion. the 1st ammendment guarntees YOU your right to practice YOUR religion, it does not however, give YOU the RIGHT to IMPOSE YOUR beliefs on someone ELSE of the GOVERNMENT. I think if you strongly believe against gay marriage, then thats fine, but the 1st ammendment establishes a non biased governmental system against favoring one religion over another. So unless you can find other reasons why it is somehow less valuable or safe than a straight marriage, you have no right imposing your beliefs on someone.
Posted by: Micah smith | January 12, 2007 5:14 AM
Though I feel my generation "Generation Next" has accomplished significant improvement in the area of religion I know there is much more room to grow. Humans in general will know that we have reached religious maturity when the area you are born in doesn't dictate, or have any bearing whatsoever in the religion you choose to follow. In the US our religions are still overwhelmingly western. I think mostly a result of minimal exposure to non-western religions. There is still great pressure associated with "changing" religions or choosing to follow a religion that is not supported in your environment.
Posted by: Rik Kakareko | January 12, 2007 7:23 AM
Generation Next needs new religion - faith and drive to PROTEST; guts to institute usery laws; nerve to protect U.S. jobs; knowledge to act on trade discrimination against the U.S.; will to demand U.S. goods; morality to demand that China bear the social costs that other nations bear; and insight to understand the impact of a 37-year trade deficit on their future (the net transfer of wealth and control of their nation) - and the fact that Americans can no longer save as of Aug-2005.
Posted by: Mark Crawford | January 13, 2007 1:08 AM
Zietguist 2005: As a teacher of almost 40 years, I've noticed that the Class of 2005 and those behind them are different. No matter what they call themselves, they are more loving and better stewards of their generation world-wide. They are committed to sustaining their home, their planet.
Posted by: Frank Serrapere | January 14, 2007 1:46 PM
I haven't seen the show yet, planning on it. But I just wanted to point out that from the article I read on this subject, she said "religion" but she only talked about Christianity. Say Christianity next time so I won't waste quite a bit of time trying to see the changes. Its understandable though going for the major viewing audience, but please, there are those of us out there who are not Christians, and would like to see a variety.
Posted by: Keith | January 14, 2007 3:15 PM
I define generation X as those who didn't care who they walked on on the road to success. Generation next are the tough generation . A capitalist during the cold war didn't want to appear greedy, so they charged a fair price for their goods. Today the duty of a capitalist is to charge all the market will bear. This whittles down reliance upon 1 employer for a career. This robs workers of health care and other benefits that a faithfull worker could rely upon just so the capitalist can get an early retirement. Does this call again for some form of communism?
Posted by: Dean Youngkeit | January 20, 2007 5:18 AM
I have to admit a certain level of concern for main line churches. I am actually a seminary student at a Lutheran seminary at this point in time. I am in my late twenties and I admit that i tend to see more people around my own age group when i worship at school than when i go to an area church. Honestly I tend to get really scared to see how much the Lutheran church really will live on. Why? Although I share the more liberal theology that many of my peers have I have yet to meet someone in my class who is open to exploring more nontraditional forms of worship. This honestly scares me and the antagonism toward any kind of change scares me as well. This scares me because we are fostering a form of worship that is more condusive to the generation that came before us. We are not accomodating to the needs of our generation and what makes our generation have more attention to things. And I have heard many arguments that Christianity needs to be countercultural to a certain degree. While in some respects it is the spirit of the faith we need to speak the language of the surrounding culture more than we do. Otherwise I feel like I am being trained for a dying church. So the real question people in my program seem to face is who are we serving. Are we serving those who have reasonable objections to church??? Or are we serving people who want to keep the church the way it is??? Until then I honestly feel like the more conservative evangelical churches actually are doing their job better at reading the needs of the generation than my more liberal mainline Lutheran church is.
Posted by: Liz | February 4, 2007 6:45 AM
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