the zeitgeist report

In Finland, approximately 20 percent of the Lutheran church quit. Most people that left were young adults, 20 - 35, who did not find meaning in the church any longer. Another significant number left because:

Views expressed by the Lutheran Church also drove people away. For some, the church is too liberal, reformist, and spineless.

It's refreshing to see spinelessness cited as a reason to leave the church. There is apperently a system called the religious freedom law wherein one needed to go before a government committee to leave ones religion. It can now be done with a mail-in form. The article also cites about 50,000 people that joined the church through the miracle of infant baptism.

Most of the people who left were not bitter or angry as they left. They just didn't feel strongly enough to leave until the new system was enacted.

This seems to express a common attitude about religion: kind of, I don't know, whatever.