The trend is known as the "Great Evacuation," and the statistics are startling to youth ministers.
Gee. Teaching kids to think makes them leave religions that demand thoughtless obedience... how strange.Studies have shown at least 50 percent — and possibly as much as 85 percent — of kids involved in church groups will abandon their faith during their first year in college.
Just an aside... calling it the 'Great Evacuation' makes it sound as if the elders in the church took fright and had a massive ...ah... accident.
