{"id":1618,"date":"2013-01-15T21:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T02:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2013-01-15T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T02:33:54","slug":"why-do-young-people-walk-away-from-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/01\/15\/why-do-young-people-walk-away-from-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do young people walk away from religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While I have covered<\/a> the topic of reasons for leaving faith before, there is an interesting piece <\/a>on NPR with interviews of actual young people who have walked away from their religion of upbringing. Here are some samples.<\/p>\n

Kyle Simpson, 27, raised Christian. He has a tattoo on the inside of his wrist that says “Salvation from the cross” in Latin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s a little troublesome now when people ask me. I tell them and they go, ‘Oh, you’re a Christian,’ and I try to skirt the issue now. They go, ‘What does that mean?’ and it’s like, “It’s Latin for ‘I made a mistake when I was 18.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe when he was a believer he\u00a0should have learned\u00a0about Leviticus 19:28.<\/p>\n

19:28<\/strong> Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is another interesting one.<\/p>\n

Yusuf Ahmad, 33, raised Muslim, is now an atheist. His doubts set in as a child with sacred stories he just didn’t believe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Like the story of Abraham \u2014 his God tells him to sacrifice his son. Then he takes his son to sacrifice him, and he turns into a goat. I remember growing up, in like fifth [or] sixth grade I’d hear these stories and be like, ‘That’s crazy! Why would this guy do this? Just because he heard a voice in his head, he went to sacrifice his son and it turned into a goat?’ There’s no way that this happened. I wasn’t buying it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“Today if some guy told you that ‘I need to sacrifice my son because God told me to do it,’ he’d be locked up in a crazy institution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is encouraging to see this kind of insight among\u00a0those raised Muslim as well. But he is, of course, not the first to have found this story unfathomable.
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