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What Don’t You Believe?
Instead of Focusing on What You Believe In, Ask Yourself What You Don’t Believe
According to a recent Gallup poll, membership in churches has fallen to below 50% for the first time in the United States. Predictably, the older the age group, the higher number in church membership, while the younger age groups show more and more people who don’t identify with or join a particular church or religion. Hundreds of years ago, when the population was often times illiterate, people had no real choice but to follow and believe in whatever the church clergy told them, but that is no longer the case.
More and more people, especially the younger generations, are questioning their beliefs and becoming more and more disillusioned where religion is concerned. People are more often than ever stating that they are spiritual, not religious. The days of accepting religious beliefs without questioning them “because it’s always been that way” or “because the church says so” are all but over, and despite the angst this causes many people, this is a very good thing.
I’ve written an entire book on my spiritual journey, and it all started with a photographic display of Tibetan monks and nuns who had been captured and tortured by the Chinese government and spent the rest of their lives praying for their persecutors. I was in…
