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Shouldn't Churches Learn from Deconversion Stories?

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09-30-2010 8:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by dwise1
09-29-2010 4:38 PM

Would it benefit churches and evangelists to learn why Christians of their own persuasion deconvert?
Haven't they done this in the past?
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It is my impression that they investigated this, and found that many were deconverting after studying biology and evolution. So they cultified themselves into YECs, as a way of increasing the dogmatic pressure and dissuading Christians from studying biology.
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dwise1 writes:
Have evangelists and evangelical churches actually studied the problem of deconversion? Do they really have a handle on how many members they are losing to deconversion as opposed to migration to other congregations? (as per Christian pollster George Barna, most "church growth" is simply "new" members having moved from another church) Have they actually studied the real reasons for deconversion?
They have reacted to it. I doubt that they have done what either of us would consider a serious study. But then it's typical that they don't do serious study.
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I am sure that they think that they know that the cause of deconversion is evolution, but they haven't done any actual research to verify that it is.
They do know that atheism is more common among biologists than among other scientists. I doubt that they have investigated much beyond that.
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