[UK] Post-millennial Generation Z 'more tolerant', positive view of Christianity
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/12/post-millennial-generation-uk-more-tolerant-of-christianity
Just over half of members of Generation Z (18-24-year-olds) responding to the ComRes survey said they had a positive experience of Christians and Christianity
Half of the Generation Z respondents in the ComRes survey said they disagreed with the statement that Christians were a negative force in society, with 12% agreeing. In the next age group, 25-34-year-olds, 14% agreed with the statement. The average across all age groups agreeing that Christians were a negative force was 10%, compared with 51% disagreeing.
As a member of Gen Z (1994 birth): I have a tolerant respect for the lineage of religious mythology and I find it incredibly fascinating, but I feel the organized faith is responsible for committing and concealing untold atrocities, and being the first leading form of dystopian population control. Just for my slice.
It's ancedotal, but, there's been a large effort by a church in my area to try and get young people to join them and there's been a general response of "we don't want to be associated with religion of any kind, period." To the point where I've heard people suggest that the church might as well just close, remove the religious iconography and transform it into a community centre for everyone, regardless of who they are.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/217414/d55ed532-9dad-4bd0-8994-bb3b6d19d00e/image.png
just about sums it up
they don't particularly hate Christianity but they aren't Christians themselves
My only real negative interaction with Christians came from my parents refusing to accept that I wasn't Christian even though they baptised me... When I was far too young to have a say in the matter or even understand what was going on or what it meant. Other than that they're generally pretty chill people in East Midlands.
Religion should be about community, not some ancient idiotic doctrine meant to serve as mind control
Its not really surprising, to me at least.
A lot of the millennial anti attitudes towards christianity are counter-culture based.. So whats the counter culture to the current culture? Its embracing theism and rejecting atheism.
Anyway, its not really significant. Just as most people arent rabidly religious or rabidly antireligious, nor will gen Z be these things despite more receptive attitudes on average. I wouldn't split hairs over it.
As a member of Gen-Z and most of my extended family being Anglican I honestly feel and believe that at-least the CoE isn't that bad considering the other religions out there.
Me and my direct family are largely agnostic though. I just don't think about it that much personally.
dw if they had experienced it maybe they would have changed their mind
Yeah sure they're tolerant now but wait until they get into middle school.
Wtf since when was I a gen z I thought I was a millennial
this whole naming thing for generations is confusing af
It's never consistent; everyone has a different idea of where to draw the line. I personally consider millennials to be anyone born from 1980 to 1998.
The cutoff point will probably be moved to those born in 96-2000 onwards.
I've read people drawing the line anywhere between 1990 to 2000. It's pretty arbitrary since the generation thing is only a useful descriptor for long periods of time and they tend to blend in together at the edges. In my opinion the line ought to be drawn at 2000
Apparently you can find out if u are millennial or gen z by how many screens you have
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/134006/4461f27d-3947-47b9-bc4f-049ed47a3289/Marketo.png
But what does that make me i only have one screen???
poor probably
I have 2 screens, communicate with images, share things, am future focused, an optimist, and want to work for success
am I some kind of unholy abomination?
The thing is that it's not really concrete, most consider everything from about 95-96 onwards generations z. It varies between experts, it also differs between nations as well.
If you're an American born before 96 you can safely call yourself a millennial.
Hard to hate it when you weren't forced into it
Some details I left out, a key difference between the two, the worldview of millenials in the U.S.A was largely affected by 9/11 and the war on terror, meanwhile generation z had their worldview shaped by the 2008 economic recession.
This once again, applies to the U.S.A, not necessarily anywhere else.
Sources are Wikipedia and some news articles I can't seem to find again.
TIL I am gen Z. Always thought I was a millennial
I'm Singaporean so what am I
I always thought a good indicator for Americans was whether you can remember 9/11 or not.
No idea, this whole generational thing is defined by recent history, and how events have shaped different generations of people and their culture. I hardly know anything about singapore so I can't really be much help.
As someone born in '92 I feel I relate culturally more with people born in the mid-late '80s than people born in the later '90's.
I think this mostly just comes down to most of them having no real experience with it.
This makes sense to me, I vaguely remember 9/11 but not really. The 2008 recession though I have very real memories of, even if I didn't fully understand what was going on at the time
TL;DR about the Millennial/Gen Z split, is that there's overlap. People say that the ending years for Millennials are in the 90's, people say the starting years for Gen Z is in the 90's. Mileage may vary, and it's entirely arbitrary, of course. Just put yourself where you feel makes more sense, and stick with that.
I've heard "Generation Z" is more conservative but I'm cautious about believing it since conservatives have been desperate to get younger people on board and it might be an attempt to "assign an identity" or foster sympathy between conservative ideology and the younger gen.
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