Are all religions facing a retention problem?

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A lot of Muslims are experiencing dreams and visions of Jesus himself. It’s difficult to become an outright Christian, but because of this many are on their journey to Christ(although in secret).

Muslims are quite receptive to the ideas of people speaking to them in dreams. This phenomenon is actually quite prevalent across the islamic world - iraq,iran,syria,indonesia etc.

It’s difficult for the gospel to reach them, so our Lord is appearing to them directly and asking them to follow him and find peace.

Lee strobel has documented this in his book Case for Miracles (As so have other evangelists and missionaries)
 
Bingo… most people historically weren’t religious by personal choice but by expected or required societal pressure. That pressure is easing or gone completely. No one looks twice if someone doesn’t attend church anymore. Heck if you do attend church people are more likely to look sideways at you these days.
 
How so? Is your position that having no religion is an impossibility?
 
I agree with you; yet there are a few people on CAF who do believe atheism is a religion, particularly when it is activist and has an agenda.
 
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Young people are leaving in droves.

So many lapsed Catholic parents confirm their children into the Church with no intention of taking them to Church at any time except Christmas or teaching them the faith.

Why did these parents leave? The absence of a belief in God causes people to lose a sense of morality. The sexual revolution, which tells us that grave sins such as contraception and fornication are acceptable, has seduced people into rejecting God. The normalisation of sinful sexual practices, and the resulting rejection of God is grave.

Ultimately, the problem in the world is the rejection of absolute truth and the idea of moral relativism. Moral relativism comes from the evil one and is when people believe that the only absolute truth is that their are no absolute truths. Of course, this is a fallacy itself. Moral relativism is grave and is the source of much evil, including people leaving the Church.

Thus, moral relativism is ultimately the issue. How do we stop the young leaving? We teach the faith properly. The dangers of relativism, as our current and previous Supreme Pontiffs have warned about, have led to the sexual revolution, normalisation of abortion and other evils.

We must declare loyalty to Christ’s Church in this confused world.
I am a teenager and I will never leave the Church, ever. I will not give into the atheistic relativism that plagues our society.
 
Two things, first most atheists couldn’t care less if you’re a believer. Second, those that do try to dissuade the religious aren’t attempting to convert so much as rescue/educate from what they see as ignorance and superstition.
 
Atheism is the absence of God, not the absence of religion.

With your definition it would imply the more religion you have the more God you have.
 
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If one ceases to be human I guess it is possible.
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Seems you’re hinting at something I’d call “personal philosophy”, what values, codes of conduct, etc a person chooses to live by. Perhaps there’s a better term for it though.

Religion by default makes a descriptive claim about the nature of the supernatural IMO. Even Scientology makes claims.
 
No, I am not hinting at anything. Secularism is not a religion but it is world-view. Atheism on the other hand is a religion.

You make the claim that a religion makes a descriptive claim about the nature of the supernatural. Even by your own words that describes an atheist.

I was with a very good friend of mine, an atheist who I might add, often gives me better conversation about religion than many theists in all honesty, but we once addressed the question of the after-life. I expressed the perspective of heaven and hell. He expressed the perspective that he has nothing but emptiness.

His religion does have something to say on the supernatural, just that something is a statement that is void of an after-life.
 
So it is not that all religions are facing a retention problem, people are just moving around searching for the one which fits them, and Christianity hasn’t helped itself much because many people ended up shuffling around from denomination to denomination within Christianity getting exhausted and eventually saying I’m going to sit it out for a while.
 
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Two things, first most atheists couldn’t care less if you’re a believer. Second, those that do try to dissuade the religious aren’t attempting to convert so much as rescue/educate from what they see as ignorance and superstition
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FWIW found this discussion of faith between an priest and agnostic/atheist thought provoking

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