Rod the Rogue Demon Hunter<\/a> offered the best Star Wars pun related to this topic I\u2019ve heard yet. He asked \u201cWhy are all the Millennium Falcons leaving the church? Because\u2026It\u2019s a trap!\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/religion_akbar_meme-560x781.jpg\")
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Rachel Held Evans and Hemant Mehta appeared on CNN talking about why millennials are leaving the church: I find the notion that a comparison of the subscribers to the atheism and Christianity subreddits tells us much. But the actual discussion is interesting. On a related note, Rod the Rogue Demon Hunter offered the best Star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":16876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,131,91],"tags":[381,1977,4528,4871,5322,5323,5455,7448,7450,9891,11822],"class_list":["post-16875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-christianity-religion","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-admiral-ackbar","tag-cnn","tag-hemant-mehta","tag-humor","tag-interview","tag-interviews","tag-its-a-trap","tag-millennials","tag-millennium-falcon","tag-rachel-held-evans","tag-star-wars"],"yoast_head":"\n
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