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Young people in the west have abandoned religion in record numbers, but will Christianity return some day? Perhaps soon?

>> No.15518946

Manichism will return.

>> No.15518947

A lotta young people nowadays feel like nihilists.

t. young person

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>>15518939

As the world spirals deeper into darkness and values disintegrate around us, more and more people will start to crave meaning, possibly looking to religion. But will Christianity 'return'? Make a comeback? Probably not. The institutions are old and tired and out of touch.

>> No.15518982
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It's dead.
You know that it's dead because churches, both protestant and catholic, make a big fuss about being progressive. That means that they fully lost their constitutive role in the customs of society, and remain only as an afterthought. Christianity lost all the potency it once had, that is, it died, and left a shadow of itself.
I do not consider this state of affairs particularly tragic. I am just horrified at how easily nihilism seeped through every pore of society. Religion had to die, and this was right, but the fools have abandoned all desire for truth.

>> No.15519002

>>15518939
Here's my prediction for millennials (and maybe zoomers if they don't go full retard)
1. Forced to go to church by parents; hate it and don't see the point
2. Rebel as teenagers; reject the idea of God completely; become reddit-tier atheists
3 .Go to college; try to find something to believe in "I'm not religious but I'm spiritual bro"
4. Accept the spiritual as valuable, experiment with fake religions like Wicca but then are exposed to ancient mysticism
5. Mysticism to Qabalah
6. End up researching Christianity all over again
7. Finally arrive back at the beginning: Jesus Christ is the Lord God
8. cycle repeats with their children

>> No.15519014

>>15518939
I am Christian (not the trad larpy kind so common on /lit/), age 22. I don't think Christianity will make a comeback in a sincere form. Even most modern Christians are shallow. But this is prophesied. I hope Christ will come back soon.

>> No.15519025

>>15519014
Will Jesus save these "shallow Christians" you describe?

>> No.15519055

>>15519025
I don't think so. Christ talks about this. Separating out the chaff; many are invited, few are chosen; narrow is the way that leads to life and few will find it; etc. I think it's tragic. Honestly sometimes I just cry thinking about all the people who reject Christ. Or the people who acknowledge Christ but don't follow him. It's all so sad. Not that I'm a super great Christian myself, God knows I've washed my hands of sin too many times. But this makes me even more sympathetic with the lost sheep.

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>>15518939
Yes. Demographics is destiny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdgzkqsy_z0

>> No.15519111

>>15519099
Mormons are not Christians. Nice bait though.

>> No.15519139

>>15519111
What are they?

>> No.15519146

>>15519139
(other than extremely based)

>> No.15519149

>>15519139
Otherwise sincere people led astray by a false prophet.

>> No.15519151

>>15518939
The vast majority of so-called "Christians" have no clue what Christ even taught.

>> No.15519171

>>15519139
Says right in revelations to beware false prophets

>> No.15519188

>>15519151
let me guess, anyone who doesn't sell all of their stuff, give the money to the poor, and then live an ascetic life isn't a true Christian?

>> No.15519195

>>15518939
Maybe not christianity but there probably will be a religious/spiritual revival of some sort.
It's becoming pretty fucking obvious that the currently popular attitude towards life is not the way to go.

>> No.15519240

>>15518939
Africa will be a Catholic Monarchical superpower

>> No.15519253

>>15519188
Yes.

>> No.15519272

>>15518939
The new moral authority is the cult of intersectional social constructivism.

>> No.15519564

>>15519240
No, but Christianity will devolve into superstition once Africa and South America are the only places where it's dominant.

>> No.15519607

>>15519002
Literally me, but instead of Wicca it was transcendental meditation and LSD.

>> No.15519742

>>15519002
Maybe in America your parents forced you to go to church but in Australia and most of Europe none of our parents went to church. Christianity is something we never had any experience of. Catholicism and orthodoxy are as foreign to us as Islam.

>> No.15519769

>>15518939
Crazy how Europeans were making such a big deal about Christianizing the world and now their descendants are just letting it die. Time is the best at irony.

>> No.15519790

>>15519769
Their descendents now force liberal ideology on the world instead.

>> No.15519943

>>15518939
In Europe? No, see >>15519742. It was dead already.
Catholicism is burying itself with Francis I, there's no point in shilling the progressive values as the world around us already shill, the church gain nothing by pleasing the media and progressives that don't even go to church anyway. Nobody is going to convert to catholicism because it's slightly progressive, specially since they did nothing to end the pedophile scandals. In South America catholicism is stronger, but it's also declining fast, people can find the same things in the evangelical churches, but in a more markeatable way, almost a merchandize itself, the same goes for the catholic parts of Africa, as the evangelic churches spread there too. And Evangelicism barelly counts as christianity, it's a profitable parody of christianity just like the western budhism is just a merchandize based on real budhism.

The only way christianity makes a comeback is if the church cut the bullshit and actually enforce christian values in it's followers. Stop this hippie feel-good bullshit that people falsely attribute to JPII and start acting as shepards to the faithfull once again.

>> No.15519985

>>15518939
I just read The Antichrist by Nietzsche today and the parallels between Christianity and what's happening today are incredibly similar. Christianity IS the root of the problem

>> No.15520000

>>15519985
Behind me, Satan.

>> No.15520018

>>15519985
t. 16 yr old pseud who hates his mom

>> No.15520022

>>15519002
almost my path exactly, but with a mystical experience in college that I did not have a strong framework to process

>> No.15520029

>>15520000
>>15520018
cringe

>> No.15520040

>>15520029
cringe

>> No.15520049

>>15519188
Not everyone is called to this level of service.