[Dialogue] Re MSN/MYF

[KarenBueno at aol.com]

In my experience, the 60s were the time when youth (not exclusively, but  
especially) began to question the mythologies of the Christian faith which 
had  been presented to them as realities.  RS1 addressed this by 
demythologizing  the great four items the church espoused: God, Christ, Holy Spirit and  
Church.  Many, if not most youth, missed that, and instead took on the  
cynicism of realizing that they might have been "duped" in Sunday School, and  
asked to believe that which was untrue.  
 
Along with the civil rights movement, (they could no longer believe in the  
superiority of the white people), the birth control pill (they could no 
longer  believe that women did not have the right to decide on pregnancy), rock 
music,  (mom and dad's sentimental music didn't fit any more), Vietnam (the 
USA didn't  have the right to govern other peoples) the societal values 
changed.
 
If Charles is right and the Methodist church joined education and  
evangelism, that would have furthered the cynicism.
 
I was active in MYF in the 50s, and in leadership of MYF in the 60s.   I 
don't see that kind of fervor for the church from youth today.  I really  do 
not have any experience in the Student Movement, but the times began a great  
exodus from the mainline churches.
 
Karen Bueno
 

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