https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2014/12/22/fewer-people-are-going-to-church-%e2%80%94-who-to-blame/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2014/12/22/fewer-people-are-going-to-church-%e2%80%94-who-to-blame/comment-page-1/#comment-4764 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:57:00 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=9590#comment-4764 Why do you ignore the obvious: That children are exposed to more information today than ever before, and that makes it much more difficult to distort their understanding of reality to accommodate the outlandish stories found in pretty much every religion’s holy book? Rather than ask why fewer attend, perhaps you should ask why people attend in the first place. You as well as I know that if religion were introduced at 18 instead of from birth, religion would essentially disappear in a generation. The psychological underpinnings of religion, and the continuous march forward in understanding the universe based on evidence and reason, are things that are undeniable. Either threaten the fundamentalism of the Middle East, or embrace the secular world as Europe gas learned to do.

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