Children get holier than thou

Pamela Moss worships every Sunday at Messiah Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Mich.,where they preach the Bible straight up, sing the old hymns "and then let me get on with my day."
But her son, George, 24, is a fervent Evangelical, witnessing to strangers and praying "in a church that looks like a gym. To me, he's just out the gate," his mystified mom says.Stephen Rochester, 32, grew up "Jewish lite" in St. Louis, says his father, Marty."So I was stunned when Stephen went religious with a capital R," switching to his Hebrew name, Shaya, and adopting the black hat of Hasidic Jews.Mari Beth Nolan, 22, grew up a "Christmas and Easter" Catholic. Now she plans to go to work at a missionary clinic in Ecuador, leaving her parents proud-but confused.Small wonder parents are befuddled. Though Gallup polls dating to the '50s say young adults are less likely to attend services or say religion is very important in their lives, clergy of all stripes say they are seeing a small wave of young adults who are more pious than their parents. And they're getting an earful from boomer moms and dads who range from shocked to delighted. "Freaked-out parents are nothing new here," says the Rev. Jeremy Johnston, executive pastor of First Family Church, a Baptist megachurch in Overland Park, Kan.."The parents are intimidated by their child's depth of feeling. They threaten college students to 'cut off tuition support if you're going to be such a fanatic.' They think the normal way to be a young adult is the way they were. But it's not."We tell young people when they are all wound up in new faith that the best thing you can do is show your parents the changes God is working in you. Parents can decide for themselves whether they want to follow."Brooke Havarty, 21, says her parents struggled when she transferred from Arizona State to Liberty University in Virginia, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell."I had a great childhood in a great family," she says. "We went to church on Sundays, but it was just what you did. I was never shown the value of the Bible, the role God had in my life. I saw the consistency and joy in the lives of faithful Christians, and I wanted that in my life."Havarty, whose parents are divorced, adds that her dad "is an amazing father, but he doesn't want to give every area of his life to Christ the way I do. It's hard for him to understand why I'm so black and white about things."
Her father, Mike Havarty of Overland Park, says Brooke is "an incredible young lady, academically and in her faith." He says his daughter has "earned the right" to study where she pleased.Parents will go along when they "realize their kids are becoming more spiritually attuned, not rejecting their parents or their past but growing from within, finding new and deeper ways to interact with God," Shmotkin says.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-07-08-kids-parents-religion_N.htm
PS:I think what's happening is an amazing phenomena of the end times is that people will start seeking more and more about their purpose in life and will seek for answers and for a quenching to deep longing and thirst in their souls for something that will satisfy them beyond measure.The Holy Ghost is still convicting people of sin and calling them wowing them to God thru Jesus Christ more and more.By the way I don't think these young people is getting "holier than thou" they are just getting passionate about their new found faith.It's a high time to go back to God!!!There isn't much time left!!!!
As in the days of Noah....