Jenny Holland
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And interestingly enough, the same judge that sentenced him to six months, 18 months suspended in 2023, sentenced an actual pedophile who pled guilty to possessing sexual abuse images of girls aged three to 10.
to the same sentence, six months in prison, 18 months suspended.
So there you go.
That's the UK for you.
Yeah, I mean, I've become your resident expert in good news.
I'm always getting the good news stories.
So the Washington Post, of all places, is reporting from a series of a group of different universities, the same thing that we've been seeing reported in the New York Post and the free press from San Francisco to New York, even to the UK, all over among Gen Z, an increase in religious belief.
And this article, like most of the others, is very clearly stating that these people, these young people, are looking for meaning and community.
This is what is driving them into the arms of God, quite literally.
The article itself is sort of a little bit all over the place.
It does mention a Pew poll that states or claims that actually religious belief is going down among 18 to 24-year-olds, but also a Gallup poll that says otherwise.
But really, the main takeaways here are there is a surge in belief, not just in Christianity.
They do mention things like religion.
wicked beliefs and stuff like that.
But the schools that people were interviewed at were Notre Dame, University of Maryland, and American University, at which one student said something very poignant, and I think that really cuts to the heart of this, which is he says his generation... Before you do the quote, I just want to
No, that's fine.
I think that's a very fair point, actually.
I think previous stories we've heard also mention similar things.
Children of lapsed, like in one case it was children of lapsed Catholics who had left because of sexual abuse scandals in the 80s and 90s, and they were disgusted by that, are refining it because the children are going not through
the elite sort of institutional hierarchy of the church.