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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2242876, member: 591"] I have to add, and I'm not going to get highly specific, that I heard an interesting take on all this and its impact to mainstream religions, etc. We are visiting NJ and this morning worshiped and visited with the Pastor where my wife worked before her disability. The pastor pointed out that this is, in her opinion and that of various writers, another "reformation" - they come along every 500 years or so. Not just religion, just as Luther and the protestant reformation were part of a greater time period, including the invention of the printing press, European discovery of America, etc. Her take is that we have to be prepared for "everything" to change as the younger folk become the mainstream. She said she frankly doesn't expect things like the church where she is pastor to still be around "looking like it does now" in 50 years. Millennials and younger folk are not "bad", just different. She was talking about how they want to go out and do good, but they don't want to come and sit and listen to the trappings of main-stream church service. I agree that with all the challenges presented by world change - particularly the growth of social media - the younger generation(s) have faced entirely different challenges to adapt to. And if helicopter parents and such have been issues, well, I don't really think anyone had or has a blueprint for how the world is developing and changing on a rapid basis. [/QUOTE]