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The Bible’s PR Nightmare With Gen Z

Young people aren’t leaving God — they’re leaving a book they see as full of contradictions, bloodbaths, and outdated rules that collapse under a Google search.

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Tanner the Humanist
Sep 18, 2025
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A bold, modern collage. On the left, a dusty, leather-bound Bible sits cracked open, its pages old and frayed. On the right, a glowing smartphone screen shows TikTok, Google, and Reddit icons stacked like neon signs. Between them, a Gen Z teenager scrolls on their phone, the light washing over their skeptical face. Over the Bible’s pages, faint ghost-images of violent biblical scenes (Noah’s flood, a stoning) bleed into view. The whole piece is lit in clashing tones — sepia browns on the Bible side, bright digital blues and pinks on the tech side — symbolizing the Bible’s ancient image problem colliding with Gen Z’s digital reality.

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