[fwdude]

This contention cannot be either supported or refuted. But I tend to believe him. You don't have to blatantly announce that you have "lost your faith" to, practically, lose your faith. It happens all too often.

I grew up in, and still find myself among, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary culture, and am in touch with many current and former students and faculty through church and lifelong affiliations (my father was a graduate.) I find that the majority of them are now agnostic at best, and atheistic at worst. The number of them who consider the Biblical accounts of the Old, and many of the New, Testaments to be "merely stories to teach us lessons" is absolutely astounding. You'd think that they were pickled in a lifetime of attending a UU "church" from listening to them.

Many are ardent supporters of a purely evolutionist world view, completely discounting that a God of the Bible could have anything directly to do with how creation came into being.

[Vigilanteman]

The empirical evidence suggest that between 2/3rds and 3/4th of people remain in the faith where they were raised. Not surprisingly, the older religions tend toward the 2/3rds end of the scale and newer toward the 3/4th end.

Atheism, on the other hand, only has about a 40% retention rate. And it gets even worse after they die.

[Oliviaforever]

“”Between 71-88% of our Christian kids who go to college are renouncing their faith at college, and...over 50% of our Christian kids who go to Christian colleges are renouncing their faith at Christian colleges because the professors in the Christian colleges were trained by the pagans in the secular colleges,”

Christian colleges need to move way from professors who were educated at those secular colleges and hire only professors that went to Christian colleges.

[TBP]

This seems ridiculous.

[virgil283]

I can only say of the several state colleges I've attended in the ‘Bible belt’ I never had any professor give any indication of being a believer. And I've had to bite my tounge of many occasion because to give a ‘Christian’ veiw would have made it difficult to get a good grade. So I agree with Barton...