Tobin Grant, a political science professor at Southern Illinois University, makes the following observation regarding college freshmen, in an above titled article from today's Religious News Service:
"Until about a decade ago, however, freshmen tended to be just slightly less religious than their fathers. The gap between children and their fathers was in the single digits. Today, that gap has widened. Freshmen are much more likely to see themselves as one of the so-called “nones” than their parents are. College freshmen are twice as likely to identify with no religion than are their mothers."
The article talks about the results of a 2014 Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey, which indicates that college freshmen in 2014 had the highest percentage of students identifying with no religion and the lowest percentage who saw themselves as spiritual. The survey asked freshmen the religion of their parents. Each year, college freshmen reported being less religious than their parents.
According to the article, the bottom line is, "As go the parents, so goes the child. Parents, too, have increasingly left religion."
What does the above survey tell us? That parents have obviously abdicated their responsibility to teach their children anything about the Bible and the spiritual principles contained therein. As concerned parents, should we not be laying the spiritual foundation for our children to build their future lives upon, rather than upon godless ideologies formed in the minds of evil and perverted men?
Dear reader, God's instructions for teaching His word, not only to this present generation of young people, but for generations of young people to come, immediately come to this writer's mind (Deuteronomy 6-8; Psalm 78:1-8; Ephesians 6:1-4; Titus 2).
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
"Until about a decade ago, however, freshmen tended to be just slightly less religious than their fathers. The gap between children and their fathers was in the single digits. Today, that gap has widened. Freshmen are much more likely to see themselves as one of the so-called “nones” than their parents are. College freshmen are twice as likely to identify with no religion than are their mothers."
The article talks about the results of a 2014 Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey, which indicates that college freshmen in 2014 had the highest percentage of students identifying with no religion and the lowest percentage who saw themselves as spiritual. The survey asked freshmen the religion of their parents. Each year, college freshmen reported being less religious than their parents.
According to the article, the bottom line is, "As go the parents, so goes the child. Parents, too, have increasingly left religion."What does the above survey tell us? That parents have obviously abdicated their responsibility to teach their children anything about the Bible and the spiritual principles contained therein. As concerned parents, should we not be laying the spiritual foundation for our children to build their future lives upon, rather than upon godless ideologies formed in the minds of evil and perverted men?
Dear reader, God's instructions for teaching His word, not only to this present generation of young people, but for generations of young people to come, immediately come to this writer's mind (Deuteronomy 6-8; Psalm 78:1-8; Ephesians 6:1-4; Titus 2).
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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