Why are teenagers turning away from religion?

The two man reasons appear to be education and the Internet. Perhaps the Net is the biggie.

Until now, kids could be brought up in a religious home, reinforced at a church and Sunday school, have their education provided in religion-friendly schools, and thus be nurtured in a religious environment.

Enter the Internet with its social media, chat sites, Q&A sites, and exposure to hordes of people whose ideas conflict with what they've been taught, and their eyes begin to open. The smart ones are likely to question what they're now learning and see how it stacks up against what they have already been taught; others will see that the restrictions that have been placed on them by a religious upbringing are dismissed by the majority of people world wide as irrelevant (only 32% of the world population are nominally Christian).

So the teens, among others, find the blinders dropping from their eyes and are able to take a more informed stance. Some will abandon religion altogether, some will return to it with a more tolerant outlook, some will transfer their loyalties to another religion that seems more relevant to them.

They are only turning away from false religion. They want no part of the hypocrisy and dishonesty for which is known for. On the other hand, those that have conducted their own investigation in sincerity and truth have delighted in finding what it is like to be a foot step follower of Jesus.

I think a good portion of it is that the teens now aren't being raised by religious people, so they aren't that interest in religion to begin with. Other times, the religions they are raised in might not allow them to do what they want. I've also seen that organized religion, in general, is often bashed so they want nothing to do with it.

Have you checked?

It's not just young people.

The internet tells.them its a lie

I apologies if this offends anybody.

It is because religion restricts teenagers from doing a lot of things like sex before marriage and doing bad stuff in general and ... Well thats pretty much what teenagers do ( I am not saying all teenagers are like that ) Plus, I think that they see much more logic in science.