Protestantism has massive intellectual appeal. The neurotic Christian will find plenty of solace in the simplicity and clarity of Protestant doctrine. Yet Protestantism is also a sea of options, which leads to decision fatigue. “If I believe, what should I believe?”
Every Christian knows there is one truth out there, even if it isn’t fully described and incarnate in the churches we have. To most, the search of a church is more an attempt to find the best approximation of the correct faith, all dependent on what you’re willing to believe.
The handwavey solution, as repeated by Christian celebrities like Redeemed Zoomer, is to “go to the church closest to you”. This, however, does not stop the neurotic Christian in their quest to distill from the mass of faiths the most correct one. They will ask themselves: “What if this isn’t the most correct faith?” And then they will search in vain for the next one. This leads to denomination-hopping.
The belief in Protestantism that you can be saved regardless of denomination, as long you believe the essentials, is insufficient to the neurotic Christian, who will find it difficult to tolerate even a pixel of suspicion in the tenets of their church. This is less of a problem in the heavily ecclesiastical churches, like the Roman church or the Orthodox church, as they claim to be the “one true church”, outside of which there is no salvation (or very little, per Vatican II).
The Christians in these churches then win a supplemented version of Pascal’s wager: if the Protestants are right, I am saved, but if they are wrong, I am saved regardless. If I am a Protestant but the Catholics are right, then I am damned. This, in part, explains Generation Z’s intellectual attraction to the Roman and Orthodox churches, beyond their aesthetic appeal and their traditions, which offer an alternative to modernity, a growing craving of Generation Z.
Redeemed Zoomer would do Generation Z a great charitable service by advocating strongly and fervently for his Presbyterian position, instead of repeatedly giving salvific credence to his other Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox competitors, as I feel this would reduce Generation Z’s decision fatigue in electing a church. He has done much in vouching for the Presbyterian church, but he could do more. I say this as someone who isn’t even Presbyterian.