A number of American pastors have spoken out as a major study released by a global insurance company last week found that U.S. citizens face “epidemic” levels of loneliness.
Cigna said in a press release last week that a survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults, carried out by Ipsos between Feb. 21 and March 6, with a credibility interval of plus or minus 0.8 percentage points, discovered that nearly half said that they sometimes or always feel alone.
What is more, Generation Z, or adults aged 18–22, were found to be the loneliest of all.
Matt Chandler, megachurch pastor of the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, tweeted on Saturday in responce to the survey: “The data around this social experiment is coming in and it’s not pretty.”
Chandler referred to another tweet written by Matt McCauley, family minister at Village Church, who suggested that social media might be playing a big role in people suffering from loneliness.
“Parents, limit screen time and push your kids outside into the real world of face-to-face interaction. 10,000 followers doesn’t cure loneliness,” McCauley wrote.
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