the community chapel, where everything that a good church is, minus the jesus. that s it. shake the hand of the person next to you. is it hard to find a place to hold a service because you are considered running with the devil? atheist and satanist is the same thing down here and that s all we re asking for. someone to give us a chance. we have limited time. have a seat. for now, a rented home an hour away in lake charles, louisiana, will have to do. the world is actually getting better. dewitt saved his marriage, his house, and is cautiously optimistic about what s next. the evidence is that you ve got better days ahead of you than what you ve got behind you. you preached today about happiness. right. are you happy? i am happy. yeah. i m content with a lot of things. i m extremely happy about the ministry that i now have and the
with questions of living with a lot of different faith groups in their schools and network of friends. they re inundated with media, with different perspectives. author david kinman has studied this phenomenon. 8 million millennials give up on god by their 30th birthdays. 59% of people who grow up in a christian home are going to walk away on some level. they re either going to become ex-christians or dechurched. david gormley struggled for years and at 16, gave up on god. i actually came out as an atheist. i didn t want to lie to people anymore. i was just tired of pretending that i was someone that i wasn t. david s news rocked his deeply faithful family. do you remember how they took it? with quiet silence at first. for about six months afterwards,
how we were going to instruct them in scriptures and what our desire was for them. that they grow up to be. godly men. mmm. that would be the desire for them to be godly men. and how did you do that, as a couple? not as well as we should. not far from home delicious cookies, and all of our condiments. on the campus of the university of north georgia. this is for ask an atheist. cookies and condoms, what s better? the gormley son chose a life without god. nice to meet you, i m david. part of the north georgia skeptics society. david is an atheist. jesus was probably a historical person, but what
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more and more americans are realizing they don t have the responsibility to pretend to believe the lies their parents believed. the under 30 crowd is about one-third atheist. millennials are the future of atheism. so who are these non-believers and what exactly is atheism? for me, it s there s no positive evidence whatsoever. there s no reason to believe in any kind of supernaturalism. and so i live my life as though there is nothing supernatural. atheism is the absence of religion. there are no gods. if santa claus lands on my roof, i will believe in santa claus. but until santa claus lands on my roof, fiction is fiction. when a god appears in front of me, i ll believe it. why are millennials giving up on god? because they read the internet. they re the ones doing the most communicating about religion. they re the ones doing the most research about religion. people who don t believe in