Challenges facing youths today

The only power the secular government should have are matters of “actions only, & not opinions.” These words echo that of Luther who believed that “... need no ruler ought to prevent anyone from teaching or believing what he pleases, whether Gospel or lies. It is enough if he prevents the teaching of sedition and rebellion (Luther, 22).” Two hundred years later, the influence of Luther’s theology and concept of the separation of Church and state influenced those who founded of the United States of America. This would then lead them to make the separation of Church and state the cornerstone of modern

It has been said that “Today’s youths are the force, the hope and the leaders of tomorrow”. We are the driving force for change and we live with the hope of a better future, we have the ability of not only being tomorrow’s leaders, but today’s as well.

Robert Audi argues that citizens in a free democracy should make a difference between religion and between secular aspects or state and give them two separate domains. The one has nothing to do with the other and for each to be functioning well and for the state to be functioning effectively; religious convictions should be separated from political debate.

To some extent it could be argued that the U.S is a less secularized country than Australia. However, with research as evidence it can be argued that the U.S is to the same extent as secularized as Australia. Both countries prohibit the religions from having any influence on the state by having a true separation. With the number of people believing in a religion constantly changing, it is evident that it has become stronger in the public sphere and that there is a strong connection between education and welfare levels of a country and it’s religious outlook.

The ethics of youth has been a re-occurring question by critics, two of which are David Brooks and Danielle Tumminio. Brooks believes that today’s youth “has not been given the resources- by schools, institutions, and families- to cultivate their moral institutions”. While Danielle debates that today’s youth “knows what it means to live a good life” and later stating that students “want to know how to better our world”.

In his essay “The Meaning of Secularity”, Charles Taylor examines the role of religion in modern life in the United States, arguing that -- while it is invoked in public life -- it is generally a matter that has been supplanted by a new, modern “social imaginary” inspired by the various secular movements of the modern era. However, one key mistake is made by Taylor in his analysis. He fails to understand that the United States is sharply divided along political and demographic lines, and that each of these divisions represent drastically different ideas of the role of religion in government and public life.

The youth today are so buried in their phone, buried in a world of texting, social media, Netflix binging, buried in a world of pure laziness and no production. People waste most of their time watching videos or movies, being on social media all day or whatever other excuse there is to not focus their time on God, and eventually end up living most of their life without being an active religious follower. Social media became a place where the youth can share their ideas and views in many different religions. The youth can be pushed into one religion if they aren’t knowledgeable enough to direct themselves or they can open their eyes and keep in mind that there are other religions in which they can fall back to because of peer pressure.. Public schools teach the youth about the world’s religions which, again, can cause them to believe one is better than the other or have the freedom to pick and choose which religion best fits them. For example, someone may want to remain sexually active before marriage and they will pick a religion that allows that such as atheism, or may just become confused because of all the in depth knowledge about so many religions that they just think picking atheism is easier to live with and may just come to conclude that religion isn’t all that necessary. A

• Can freedom of religion and secularism coexist? How might they support one another? How might they undermine one another?

1. Introduction The youth in society today are fairly at a disadvantage when it comes to being in a society where they are prejudged by their immaturity level and tend to make mistakes when mixed in with the wrong crowd of individuals. The youth form an essential part of any society. The youth are to be molded to become better adults as they are growing up in society, to become law abiding citizens. They are to be protected, guided and shielded from the evils of the world. There is no doubt that they create one of the most vulnerable and defenseless persons of our society.

The Bible speaks of our contemporary society as exhibiting an obvious self-sufficiency that disgusts God and hurts our communal living – for God intended that we lived as each other’s keeper. Young people have embraced the postmodern worldview – one with confused tenets that further allow youth freedom to be comfortable themselves with their own contradictions. Today, you can find that youth can be,

Secularism, is the term used to define the separation of church and state. The antagonists argue that the total separation of church and state is extreme and that the writers of the Constitution would have allowed for more religious involvement in the schools (Whitehead, Freedom 5). For

Health Promotion: Youth Leadership Engagement Jeffrey Groff Dalhousie University October 31st, 2015 Health Promotion: Youth Leadership Engagement We often hear the phrase “youth are the future,” which is undeniably true, as youth will inherit the world from those before them – this is a natural progression of life. Youth have the capability to look at

Adolescence is a particularly important developmental period during which to study religious involvement. Research on religiosity in United States primarily focuses on adults over 18. Only a limited number of studies explore religiosity, practices, importance, and their relationship with positive outcomes in youth. During the transition to adolescence, teens grow in abstract thinking, as well as deductive reasoning, which allows them to question ideas regarding religion and spirituality. These studies indicate that religion in known to be an important factor in the lives of youth (Regnerus 2007; Smith and Denton 2005). Almost half of youth report that religion is significant to them and are attending religious services regularly (Smith and

So now we raise the question, what differentiates a religion-based government versus a secular one? In order to understand this question we must first take into account that there are no universally accepted guidelines for what constitutes a religion. However, there tend to be designated behaviors that are synonymous with religion such as specific practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, ethics, organizations, and the aspects that tend to be on the unquantifiable side such as supernatural, transcendental, or any spiritual elements. Taking these general standards into consideration, we can compare it with the definition of what a secular society entails. One manifestation of secularism is “asserting the right to be free from religious

The intricate nature of youth means that while some argue it is a universal stage of life, it is seen by many as a formation of sociocultural elements. Social construction can be defined as something that has been shaped by the values, interests or practices of a culture or society and this is evident in the youth demographic through its revolution in recent years. The markings of youth are social in formulation; highlighting the way in which young people have been influenced by differing trends and movements. Youth is a transitional phase, its age bracket extending and blurring; transcending global divides and traditions. Thus, it is the social context that surrounds youth which suggests that it is not a universal stage of life. Ultimately, the idea of youth when viewed in a historical and cultural context as well as in relation to other socially influenced concepts such as adulthood, can be observed as a social construction.