North American youth face a growing identity crisis: over 300,000 American teenagers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identify</a> as the opposite sex, while drug overdoses and suicide are the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/animated-leading-causes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading causes</a> of death for younger Americans — claiming over 72,000 young lives in 2020 alone — as loneliness <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-gen-z-is-turning-to-dating-apps-to-find-friends-fight-loneliness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spreads</a> among Gen Z.
These social contagions are fueled by declining numbers in church attendance nationwide, especially among young people. Surveys by <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a> and <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research</a> show that increasing majorities of Millennials and Gen Zers do not belong to a church or attend services at all, and a sizable minority are now “religiously unaffiliated” — leading one writer to question if Gen Z should be called “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/generation-z-generation-atheist-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generation Atheist</a>.”

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