Why It Will Be Difficult to Abandon Our Religious Identity
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Despite the statistical decline of Christianity in America, religiosity continues to be a pervasive force. Will Americans eventually become non-religious? Will atheism become the default position in our culture? Or will some form of theism continue to reign? J. Warner answers these questions in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.4 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.8 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Krishien. |
| 0:17.2 | Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Krishienity, I'm J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:28.9 | This week I want to talk about how difficult it is for us to shake our sense of God and |
| 0:34.4 | our connection to God, even though we are largely becoming less religious as a culture. |
| 0:40.0 | This has been happening in Europe even faster than it's happening here. |
| 0:43.0 | And we've tracked it at coldcasecrishjien.com. |
| 0:46.4 | In the one article that has the word updated, so you just go to our website and type in |
| 0:49.8 | the word updated, you'll find this article that talks about how young people are leaving |
| 0:55.4 | Christianity. |
| 0:56.4 | And what I'm really talking about in this article are all the surveys that demonstrate |
| 1:00.3 | that many young people at some point will no longer claim a Christian identity. |
| 1:08.0 | Especially as you see them get to college age, but to be honest, it's happening much younger. |
| 1:11.9 | It's happening usually while they're in our own homes. |
| 1:14.8 | The junior high to high school ages are young people are making decisions about what they |
| 1:19.4 | want to do with their lives, how they want the kind of freedoms they want to live to |
| 1:23.2 | be honest. |
| 1:24.2 | And a lot of that has to do with how they view their religious beliefs of their parents. |
| 1:29.0 | So all that being said, there's a sense I think we have that, wow, we're becoming less |
| 1:33.6 | religious, not really. |
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