People are losing connection to their communities. They don't feel like they belong anywhere.
Churches used to bring each other together. They let people share and discuss morality in a communal setting. They gave a common identity.
Churches are not nor have always been places only filled with "true believers". Agnostics and even atheists should be active in the churches. Even more secular types do not fundamentally disagree with Church morality, with obvious exceptions of course. But instead of engaging them, too many have abandoned them as community institutions.
It is not surprising that so many youths feel untethered.
Joseph Campbell was worried about what would happen if the culture stopped storytelling and now we see that the culture is decaying in general. When you go to a spiritual place they tell you stories to guide you or have a book with stories and now, without people listening to those stories, there is no guidance either. On another note, maybe some of the judgmental stories could be replaced with non judgmental stories (these are the stories we need now).
I'm sure that that different churches are different. But one can appeal to the very teachings of the church to correct those people. Engagement is almost always better than shutting out. More likely the culture will continue to literally disintegrate and atomize even further. Most likely with harmful results.
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