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poifaerie

5/9/08 04:57 pm

I have an interview for the job of Parish Youth Worker next saturday; which, to be frank, is awesome.

However, within the one hour interview I need to do a short presentation (as if it were to the local Church Council) entitled Teenagers: Faith in a Materialistic Age.

This is such a crazily big topic I have no idea how to narrow it down to 10 minutes.

So, my darling flisties, I do would anyone would do in given such a predicament: ASK LJ!! Can anyone give me ideas, thoughts or opinions? Feel free to point other people towards this entry; anonymous posts also welcome.

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• matgb

  5/9/08 04:41 pm (UTC)

  

  Um, there is no god?
  
  Sorry, no help, I know. Assuming the server doesn't cock up (again) it'll get linked tomorrow.
  
  Actually, belief in material rationality is as much a faith as anything else—I believe there are no gods, I can't prove it. It's better to believe something than either nothing or anything When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing — he believes anything as Chesterton may or may not have said.
  
  So perhaps something linked to promoting belief with a backing instead of conspiracy theories &c?
  
  Meh, I'm not the person to ask.

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  • poifaerie

    5/9/08 04:44 pm (UTC)

    

    Meh, I'm not the person to ask.
    
    Not so! Any contribution is valued. As was that comment, ta muchly.

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    • draxar

      5/10/08 03:55 pm (UTC)

      

      Getting more than 'Yeah sure whatever' of belief out of teenagers.
      
      To be more specific, when I was confirmed, I'd realised a couple of months before I didn't believe in god. I'd been going to confirmation classes, which were more about general thigns in the church and less about "So, do you actually believe? Why? Why not?".
      
      I can still remember the moment, walking from my house to the bus stop for my bus to school:
      
      First thought "So, do I actually believe in god?" *ponders for a bit* "No."
      
      Second thought: "Given that, do I want to tell people that, and that I don't want to get confirmed? Do I want to deal with being questioned on that, any and all the argy-bargy that may come from that?" *ponders for a bit* "No."

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