Now we have the newest Millennial/Gen-Z idiocy: the #LeaveLoud movement. (The Twitter-style hashtag slogan is so perfect for this ridiculous mind-vomit; it goes beyond self-parody and into a kind of sublime satire.) The article itself is the usual litany of bad news regarding Christianity in America (and the West generally) these days. Three decades of Marxist indoctrination in colleges has had its effect -- young people are increasingly not just anti-Christian; they disclaim any belief in metaphysics at all. Is it any wonder that their moral sense is so truncated and malformed? This article also highlights one of the most obnoxious traits of this new breed of "skeptics": they don't just state their disagreement and then leave; there has to be a lot of "internet drama" that accompanies the exit. As if their exit from the faith of their fathers is not only something to be proud of, but something to celebrate and proclaim. It's a capsule of the younger generation's incredible self-absorption and inability to think more than 10 minutes ahead. Still, it's not really the kids' fault. They were systematically ruined and broken by their elders, who filled their heads with all this post-modernist (and post-post-modernist, and ultimately nihilist) garbage. Parents failed their children by sending them off to these Satanic indoctrination facilities while knowing full well the evil nonsense being troweled out there, and by not watching over their spiritual development during their formative years. Schools failed them by abandoning their historical mission of actually teaching critical thinking, and instead choosing to teach a far-left ideology that is wholly incompatible with political life in a democratic republic, never mind the Christian faith. (Seriously: sending your kid to public school is basically child-abuse at this point.) Sadly, the Christian church failed them, the so-called "catholic" church of all Jesus-followers -- we allowed this to happen on our watch. We saw it coming; alarm bells have been ringing ever more stridently as the decades go by. These mindless, materialist, immoral, stupid kids are the fruit of our failure. The kids are simply thinking and behaving as they were taught to do.
I didn't see a link to the article you describe, but the idea makes sense. We are living in a world of the second marxist revolution, except this time it isn't Russia that's ground zero, but us, here. Remember that once the Soviets came to power in Russia, the rest of the world woke up and basically stopped it everywhere else. But before it came, the movement was growing all over the world: in Germany, in the US, in Italy, etc, because it was just airy idealism that was hard to argue against. Once it became embodied in a specific place, everyone saw what that idealism led to and the other branches of the movement (without state support) withered away. With the current 2nd marxist revolution, it hasn't reached a peak yet; it's just airy hopes and ideals. We haven't seen the full implementation yet, so there isn't yet that moment when the rest of the world will wake up and begin to push back against it. But even if they do, the problem is that we're the ground zero this time. Once the rest of the world wakes up and pushes back, our marxists will still retain control of our government. It's happened in Venezuela, and there's no reason why it couldn't happen here. Look at what's happening in California, it's become unrecognizable as a state, with relentless indoctrination, social redistribution policies, massive ethnic voter fraud, open racism and rejection of equality standards. All businesses are fleeing California; the Silicon Valley and Hollywood will soon be ghost towns. What's happened in California is coming for the rest of us, if we don't wake up. We need to start our own schools, our own companies, our own internet platforms, our own entertainment, our own movies, etc. It's now or never.
The final two paragraphs in the article seem to sum up the issues quite adequately. It seems to me that young people are quite good at critical thinking when assessing the sincerity and faithfulness to the teaching of Jesus Christ of some church members and leadership in most denominations, particularly the more bigotted and strictly doctrinaire ones. Unfortunately; though their thinking is critical of hypocrisy, in the churches, it does not extend as far as possible hypocrisy in themselves, so their critical thinking is limited to just criticism of others and not themselves. A very human trait indeed. .
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