Monday, 01 June 2009

• Is faith sexy?

  [A quick break from the 3-part series on Reasons]
  
  Thanks to moritheil for highlighting this comic:
  
  
  The rest of the comic series goes on to parody a Christian/non-Christian date, but the question it raises is interesting.  Exactly how scarce are "twentysomething guys interested in faith"?
  
  The Association of Religion Data Archives, which is related to the venerable Barna group, has an interesting survey feature that lets you compare your religious stance to others in your age/gender/belief group.  Here's what I got on the basic survey:
  
  So, only 20-30% of Protestant 18-35 year old college-degree wielding males maintain to classic Christian behaviors (e.g. weekly church attendance, regular prayer & Bible reading).  Huh.  I don't know if such a paucity makes faith sexy per se, but it certainly seems lamentable.  I know I hear about it all the time from single Christian women.
  
  Where do you fall?  Take the ARDA survey (at the bottom of the page).

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