{"id":17519,"date":"2015-02-04T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17519"},"modified":"2015-02-04T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:20:12","slug":"on-loss-of-faith-among-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/on-loss-of-faith-among-youth.html","title":{"rendered":"On loss of faith among the youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17520\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Boardwalk_And_Pier_-_NARA_-_543461.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17520\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Boardwalk_And_Pier_-_NARA_-_543461-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Typical lapsed Mormon youth?\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is where you\u2019ll end up if you don\u2019t graduate from both Seminary and Institute and share my every opinion.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<br>I think I\u2019ll sit back now, grab some popcorn, and watch as my critics go apoplectic over this image and its caption, which they\u2019ll take as an entirely serious illustration of my unempathetic fanaticism, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/johng\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Gee<\/a> continues with his interesting reflections about religious disaffection among young people:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/visiting-sins-of-fathers-on-heads-of.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cVisiting the Sins of the Fathers on the Heads of the Children\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/more-on-youth-losing-faith.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMore on Youth Losing Faith\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 My friend and former Maxwell Institute colleague John Gee continues with his interesting reflections about religious disaffection among young people: \u00a0 \u201cVisiting the Sins of the Fathers on the Heads of the Children\u201d \u00a0 \u201cMore on Youth Losing Faith\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On loss of faith among the youth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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