tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post4062172075114161797..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: A growing aversion toward Christianity....Paul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-90874569884521390772013-09-05T10:15:46.432-07:002013-09-05T10:15:46.432-07:00Anonymous, the facts do not support your premise:
...Anonymous, the facts do not support your premise:<br /><br />http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013<br />/06/25/poll-young-people-turn-<br />decisively-against-religionPaul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-20041369291246508992013-09-04T07:59:55.127-07:002013-09-04T07:59:55.127-07:00I don't relish disagreeing with the Emeritus P...I don't relish disagreeing with the Emeritus Pope but I think that there is a generation issue here. The milliant athiests are angry old men, 1968 liberals. Pope Benedict is an old man too in many ways a product of a rebelion again the 1960s. <br /><br />But the 1960s were half a cemtury ago and people under 20 are not fighting those battles. Christ is abscent from their lives and they don't even notice it. There is certainly no notion of him having been rejected.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-77960623069306597112013-09-03T08:09:24.017-07:002013-09-03T08:09:24.017-07:00Pope Benedict XVI would disagree with you. And ju...Pope Benedict XVI would disagree with you. And judging by the rise of militant atheism in England, I would suggest that there is more at work here than mere "indifference." Aversion is a better word.Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-39049634195043110302013-09-02T06:35:00.981-07:002013-09-02T06:35:00.981-07:00I am a Brit and it is true (in fact some statists ...I am a Brit and it is true (in fact some statists - the British Social Attitudes Survey for example - show that the tipping point has already passed and 2011 was the last year in England and Wales in which Christians were a majority.<br /><br />But this isn't due to aversion to Christianity. It is due to indifference to Christianity. Most people are not actively rejecting Christ, they just don't think it is a question worth considering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-63049119486939291512013-08-30T07:46:11.619-07:002013-08-30T07:46:11.619-07:00Absolutely alarming. But to listen to Father Brus...Absolutely alarming. But to listen to Father Bruso (Fitchburg priest), we are not living in the times of apostasy.<br /><br />What is this then? An outpouring of the Holy Spirit and renewal?Jonathannoreply@blogger.com