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How YouTube replaces traditional religious education

I teach Sunday school but all the kids know more about Bible stories from YouTube than from actually reading scripture and I feel obsolete.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Algorithmic content delivery bypasses the relational context through which religious wisdom has traditionally been transmitted.

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