MatCauthorn
Member
I've been to a few meetings of humanists and, by and large, the people who attend these meetings seem to be the above-65 crowd. I've been told that this is largely a function of who has time to attend meetings rather than who actually holds humanistic beliefs, but it seems to be a universal problem for humanist groups that they don't have any/enough young members.
Could it be a matter of content? Most humanist meetings, frankly, seem to feature pretty dull topics, at least as far as the average person is concerned. Maybe young people have other priorities, whereas older people enjoy going to these meetings to have a sense of community.
Any ideas on this? Is not having younger people a problem, or is it just a function of factors which can't be controlled?
-- Mat
Could it be a matter of content? Most humanist meetings, frankly, seem to feature pretty dull topics, at least as far as the average person is concerned. Maybe young people have other priorities, whereas older people enjoy going to these meetings to have a sense of community.
Any ideas on this? Is not having younger people a problem, or is it just a function of factors which can't be controlled?
-- Mat