You young single adults may see someone that you want to meet, date, and have real-world relationships with that could even result in an eternal marriage. Put your cell phones away and look around. See the beautiful girls, and you girls, the handsome men. Then get to know each other.
They are obsessed with getting young adults hitched to each other and producing lots of kids as soon as possible.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
This is the only hope. Keep them from the outside world (truth) by having them go on missions as soon as possible and then have them marry young so they are still dependent on the church. Parental/church control from birth to late teens, then church mission, then marriage at a time when the young adults are still fearful and more susceptible to wanting to keep the parental church influence.
Whatever happens, don't let the kids grow up independent of authority and confident, otherwise, the church is sunk.
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
