Welcome to the carcass to everyone.

So we were talking yesterday about the reasons why young people have left the church.

And I gave my theory, my theory is that young people are leaving the church because the

church has tried to be trendy and cool.

It's tried to appeal to the shallowist, the most superficial aspects of young people,

rather than appealing to their deeper characteristics.

And that would be their hunger for change and identity.

Or hunger for a cause to fight for a mission, their radicalism, their revolutionary nature,

all that great stuff.

So it should be a match made in heaven, literally, between young people and Christianity because Christianity

is a radical revolutionary cause, right, to fight for.

But instead we've ordered everything down and in an attempt to make it more palatable,

and really what's happened is we've alienated everybody, including young people.

Now I received a lot of feedback to that discussion and I want some of it positive, some of it

negative as usual.

I wanted to address one objection, one email because it represents I think a lot of the

critiques that I read after we talked about this.

So I got one, I got an email from a guy, fellow Christian, and he said that he agreed with

much of what I said, he agreed with the general argument for the most part.

But he also thinks that the real problem, or one of the biggest problems, is that young

people are really repulsed by the rules, the so-called rules in Christianity, especially

the rules that govern their sex lives.

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