Thread: Why Are Young Americans Less Committed to Faith?

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Written by Dave Bohon
Friday, 26 February 2010 09:30
A recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life seems to validate concerns among Christian leaders that younger generations of Americans are losing the spiritual moorings that have helped keep their nation strong from its founding.

Analyzing the extent to which the religious views of America’s “millennialsâ€

Could the following play any part ...?

College Professors Are More Likely to Believe ‘Ten Commandments are Irrelevant Today,' New Study Says

Monday, February 22, 2010
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor

Cover of the report, "The Shaping of the American Mind." (Photo courtesy of ISI)

(CNSNews.com) - College professors are more likely than the average person to believe that the Ten Commandments are irrelevant today -- and to think that America is a corrupting influence on good people, according to a new study released Monday.

Those who teach on American college campuses are more likely to agree with the statements "America corrupts otherwise good people" and "The Ten Commandments are irrelevant today," according to the report, which was unveiled at a news conference at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an educational organization based in Wilmington, Del.

Dr. Richard Brake, director of ISI’s Culture of Enterprise Initiative, cautioned that the survey results DO NOT say that all--or even most--college teachers think that America corrupts otherwise good people -- or that the Ten Commandments are irrelevant..

“But they are more likely to think that having taught college, and they are more likely to think that compared to the rest of the population,â€