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Report: Next Generation Questions Everything Except Questioning Everything

UBIQUITOUS, USA - The current crop of Next Generation Christians has discovered something novel: doing things differently than their parents did.

The big ticket items in this new edginess include listening to different music, questioning their parents’ politics, and rejecting the “main stream” of theology their parents subscribe to.

Spokesman from these NextGens insist that they are trying their best to “emerge” from beneath their parents’ shadows and take on a faith that’s all their own.  They’re challenging the status quo and not being satisfied with blindly accepting everything handed to them by their parents.

They are also, apparently, not buying into the materialism so rampant in their parents’ worldview.  They are even planning to, perhaps, vote for that “other guy” because he’ll bring change, and change is needed, because without change, nothing will ever change.

Today’s youth are also reading a lot of books, especially ones that “really speak to” them, even if all the books say basically the same thing: nothing.  The important thing in these books is apparently, “asking questions,” even if the books then provide no answers.  The questions are of the utmost importance.

This is a thing unheard of for at least the last several minutes.  It’s so radical that it’s only been done always.  Nobody’s telling the NextGens, of course.  Why burst their bubble?  They’ll conveniently forget they ever felt this way, eventually, and tell their kids they never were “that way.”

Source: O. Handwasher