I've come to notice that whenever I try talking to others about their Christian beliefs or lack of thereof, they tend not know very much about Christianity, or their faith in general. For example, I was talking to a female co-worker the other day and she told me that she has mostly lost the little faith that she has because of the "why do bad things happen to 'good people'" question. I thought questions like these, while understandable to ask and seek out answers to, should be at least somewhat understood at earlier ages of Christian life to more fully understand Christianity as a whole. I find it very troubling, more so considering that she was raised Christian all her life, that people like this woman don't try to figure out why, in her case, bad things happen to otherwise 'good people' granted this person in particular goes to a meme tier non-denominational church, but the point stands as it applies to most, if not all, denominations. The same goes for important figures in the history of the Church. I can understand not knowing all of it as that's really silly to demand. But considering that figures that should be common knowledge, good or bad, seem to lost on many in these times, is very frustrating. This is more frustrating, for me personally, considering that it seems that, in many cases, I know more than these people from just browsing /christian/ off and on than these people who have been raised Christian their entire lives. I could write more obvious examples but I don't need to hammer the point in a place such as /christian/. It's like these people don't have fathers willing to teach them anything that is good and true. What exactly is going wrong in churches for this to happen on such a wide scale? Has it always been like this to this extent, or have things been only this bad in recent times?