[LS]

Well, there is a reasonable explanation for one "contradiction": I admit I spend less time in study than I did when I first was coming into a real knowledge of the Word 15 years ago. However, once I laid that foundation, I can now gain new insight and revelation in less time because, for one thing, I know where to look.

It's no different with my secular education. I don't spend nearly as much time reading history books now because I've read many, and know where to go to get the information I want.

Likewise, when I was growing up in the Southern Baptist Church, people spent every waking hour in church, yet I didn't see much spiritual growth at all. It can be argued (and is argued by my pastor) that church is where Christians should spend a MINIMAL amount of time: the place for the salt is not with the rest of the salt in the container, but in the "meat."

[qam1]

This year’s research showed that Busters are the adult generation least likely to embrace the existence of life after earthly death; least likely to maintain views related to moral behavior that are consistent with the Bible; least likely to devote time to serving people; least likely to engage in traditional religious activities such as Bible reading, attending church, praying to God, and attending religious education classes; and the least likely to tithe to a church. They are also the generation most likely to believe we can communicate with dead people, the most likely to engage in sex without being married, are far more likely to endorse postmodern lifestyle perspectives, and are the most likely to hold theological views that conflict the Bible.

Busters generally describe themselves as “spiritual” but have less interest in church activity than do any other adults. As the current parents of most of the nation’s under-13 population, the long-term implications of their departure from orthodox Christianity are significant.

We (Gen-Xers or Busters?) tend to be the most conservative out of any group.

While I will agree that Gen-Xers are probably much less religious than other groups but being religious and being moral doesn't necessary correlate.

Just recently in the news

Drug use by teenagers declines, continues its decline

More Teenagers Say No to Sex

So while as a whole we are less religious it appears as Gen-Xers are starting to replacing the baby boomers as the majority of parents of today's kids even though we might be less religious we are doing a better job at raising more moral / better behaved kids so this doom and gloom about the future doesn't hold water.

[tortoise]

I would note that GenX is pervasively non-religious in my experience. It isn't that they are militantly anti-religion, they just don't have a religion, don't need a religion, and don't really want one either.

That said, to me they often seem more moral than the Boomer generation that preceded them, IMO, particularly to the extent that GenX is keen on the concept of personal responsibility for one's life and one's actions. Boomer Christians, such as they are, often seem to have a socialist streak a mile wide that doesn't work for GenX.