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Spouting Thomas's avatar

Re: psychedelics - I'm a square so never thought of this stuff, but it came up when Rogan interviewed Stephen C. Meyer. Rogan is out there advocating psychedelics if you want to have an experience of God.

Re: Boomer grandparents - We've also been fortunate to have a great deal of help from our Boomer parents on both sides. We both come from very small families, so that helps. But I've heard about my share of selfish Boomer grandparents from peers as well. There's a further tragedy here in that Boomer TFR is below that of their parents (hence the "boom"), so they have fewer grandchildren to care for than their own grandparents did.

Of course, you could argue partly in the Boomers' defense that they're older when they first become grandparents than their own grandparents were. Also, today's more intensive parenting styles may play a role. My Boomer mother tells me about some friends who were put off of grandparenting because their daughter has 1001 rules and stipulations and always chews them out for some concern they see as trivial. I have ideas about nutrition and screentime that my mother-in-law routinely violates, but I bite my tongue and let it all slide because she's 100% devoted to our kids.

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I’m happy to see more awareness in churches about the lack of atheism in today’s society. I know everyone is always stuck yesteryears wars, but I’m shocked at how little the apologetics I grew up with is actually applicable now.

The little exposure I’ve had in apologetics has always been strictly rational arguments, dealing with things like the clockmaker argument, etc. However, I’ve probably met only a couple strident atheists (although probably several more who just simply answered “agnostic”)

What I have seen are the rise of witches. To what degree they are involved in witchcraft is unknown to me, but I’ve seen a handful on certain dating apps, and a couple of fliers when I was on campus. There’s an entire subreddit of close to 750K redditors called “Witches vs Patriarchy”

I feel like I’ve definitely been taught on how to win an atheist to Christ, but I’ve never once been to any Christian gathering where someone told me how to bring a witch, someone involved in the occult, etc., to Christ.

I think churches need a modern revamp on where society is going and how to reach different people for Christ.

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