I love this post.  In a way it seems to mimic my personal experience.  When I was Dylan Rossi's age, I was also an "ex-Catholic" and most of my friends also mocked religion.  I walked away because it was old and dead for me.  It did not fit who I was.  Then, I discovered, over time, something was missing.  A connection.  Call it spiritual if you will.  I also discovered that the most faithful, trusting thing I could do was to be as God made me and not as the Church told me I should be.  That brought me back to a reconciling ministry in the Methodist church of all places.  So, the idea of pruning of the old and letting the new grow resonates with me and I think it is hopeful.  Just because the most recent generation is questioning and rejecting the old versions of Christianity does not mean that they won't in the long run find a new way of relating with God, and there is nothing wrong with that.