{"id":5256,"date":"2006-04-29T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T15:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/04\/29\/faith-is-the-new-punk-rock\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T15:56:45","slug":"faith-is-the-new-punk-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/04\/faith-is-the-new-punk-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith is the new punk rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Odd to think that some young people have better insight into faith than their parents do.<\/p>\n

Think that’s too generalized? There are plenty of specifics to back it up. Let’s skip across the ocean first.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times reported last week that baby boomer parents in Great Britain are seeing more and more of their children converting to a faith, especially Christianity and Islam.<\/p>\n

And some parents aren’t happy about it.<\/p>\n

A British mother, who’s agnostic, conceded that her twentysomething son was "quite aimless" before he joined an evangelical church.<\/p>\n

Today, she applauds his sense of purpose, but says, "It also makes me sad because none of the rest of the family shares his beliefs, and it excludes us from a massive part of his life."<\/p>\n

Myfanwy Franks, an author quoted in the Times, has interviewed British converts to Islam (15,000 have claimed the faith in the past few years) and Christianity and sees a sociological angle to their decisions.<\/p>\n

"More and more, it seems that becoming highly religious is the ultimate form of rebellion, because secularity is really our society’s main religion now," he said.<\/p>\n

"A lot of people utterly despise religion, don’t they? To convert to Islam or Christianity is really the punk rock of the modern age."<\/p>\n

…But is this generation of young people different from others? Will faith become an anchor for them throughout their lives or a line adrift?<\/p>\n

"Faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea," the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor once said.
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