The world is such a materialistic place, its simply teeming with tangibility. Tangibility deals with the physical aspect of somethings very nature. As humans we seek tangibility to own a sense of stability in our daily rituals. Faith is not a tangible thing, but the process of worshiping God includes a very real aspect of it, the church. The church, something many attend with a rigid will and the others finding it to burdening and annoying. Going to mass is the physical aspect of faith because we are considered to be openly participating in the sacraments, or Christ himself. God is something many teens consider 'ritualistic', simply because parents took them to church as children. Our experiences as children were simplistic and as children grow, as many end to do, they began to question God, or in many cases the church itself.What many of our parents failed to instill in us was the experience of God, not church. We went to church and experienced an empty handed sense of reasoning and created a weak basis for faith. Questioning a few people around school came up with the same results.
When asked if they attended masses outside school, about seven out ten people responded with 'no'. all those who said no were quick to add they used to go as children, but simply stopped attending around twelve or thirteen years of age. Those who attended church only two out of those three found that church felt important to them. The one who said it wasn't important responded, "I feel like I attend church because I'm asked to go. To be honest I really don't care, but I do believe in God. I just find going kind of annoying." Is this what attending church had become, a burden to 33% of teens i interviewed that attended mass services? A curious thing about the group interviewed is that many of their parents stopped going when they stopped going. Families often attend church together as an activity of sorts. It's easy to infer that when their child stopped going that family activity came to end and was treated like many childish fads our parents indulged.
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Kids take after their parents, so naturally if they stop going to church, their kids will stop going too. The parents are being role models in this situation, and by them not going to church, they're essentially telling their children that church isn't a necessity,and that there are other more important things you could do instead of going to church. These kids will eventually carry on this idea and lose their faith, since they were basically told that they dont need to put God first.
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I agree, teens find that since their is no visual proof that Jesus walked on this Earth, many questions appear on his true existence. This world is very materialistic and would rather see video evidence that Christ was on Earth walking with his followers. God was forced upon us as young children and now during our teen ages we can only seem to remember what we had learned with a some sort of limitation on what we need to know and want to know. The aspect that we have no visual proof that all these stories and events happened.
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