spiritual slumber parties

In my youth a rite of passage in order to walk alongside our peers was, no longer going to church. If you were going to church past the age of fourteen then you were a wimp and no longer thinking for yourself since from what I could tell the church was put up by the adults to fool the children there was a Santa saint. These were not isolated incidents as it turned out, this was total and complete across the entire spectrum of young people. You had to be pretty gutsy or unnoticed to get away with explaining your involvement in church. According to a survey last year by a Christain group most young adults - do not pray, do not worship, and do not read the Bible. I suspect even adults of all age groups are indifferent even if they do go to church, as well as doing something else if not watching football. Curious fact of the survey is that many consider themselves more spiritual than religious. This means that if you dig down we find that lack of faith coincides with the decline of churches as they become more and more social outlets doing little works of the flesh rather than any big works of the spirit. Seems like an awful lot of slumbering going on.