People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of “religious churning” is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
It finds that around one-quarter (26%) of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, a number that has risen over the last decade and is now the largest single religious group in the U.S. That’s similar to what other surveys and polls have also found, including Pew Research.
Good. Religion is about power and money.
We don’t need a sky god to be good people.
We don’t need a sky god to be good people.
I’d also argue that if a person needs the fear of a sky daddie to be a good person, they’re not really a good person
They are looking at the sign to see if the god allows them to kill certain some people.
“Religiously unaffiliated” and “atheist” are different things.
“A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated – a group comprised of atheists, agnostic and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” – is now the largest cohort in the U.S.”
That’s a better definition than I have heard previously, but atheists are still a portion of that group and not its whole.
And to add to this: Religion is not equal to spirituality. Left that door closed for decades.
Sadly someone I know left their church of >20 years because they thought it had become TOO accepting of LGBT stuff. But they found another congregation with a more comfortable level of bigotry.
Well it’s pretty important to find the right God’s will to match your opinions.
For me, it moreso came down to the fact that the church was essentially becoming just a wing of the Republican political party.
Good.
Organized religion can’t die fast enough.
Yeah, religion is the deadliest ideology, basically “that’s a made-up reason we’re better than you and that’s why you need to die” basically an extension of conservatism
The major relevant drive is the fact that people finally realized they are a useless time waste and most importantly, made up - rather than having something to do with minorities.
These groups always need a enemy.
So when a follower actually meets the person the group calls a enemy, and realized that it’s a lie… What do they expect?
The audacity, if god all mighty says child rape and bigotry are righteous and correct who are they to overrule his will. Seems obvious to me the first step is to realize there is no god, and then they shouldve bailed anyway before even getting to the hate
Priest spews transphobia on the pulpit fifteen minutes after being balls deep in his tween altar boy.
Pastor rants about the loss of family values weeks before its found out that he’s impregnated a fourteen year old girl that he got hooked on meth or something.
Both scenarios are made up but the fact that they are VERY plausible should make it clear why people aren’t feeling keen on organized religion.
You don’t say…
Jesus: Share everything you have, especially with those in need. Be kind and loving toward everyone. Worry about your own shortcomings and not those of others. Pay your taxes.
Members of the religion named after him: Nah. We just want to hoard wealth and watch people suffer. Also, let’s add a bunch of pagan stuff to our dogma that isn’t remotely scriptural.
When did Jesus say pay your taxes?
Mark 12:14-17
14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not? 15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
And they were amazed at him.
Wow maybe if they’d stop hiring sexual abusers after realizing they can’t force people to stay at the same church their own life they’d get more business. But I believe the entire structure is sexual abusers by this point because all the “good” people realized how fucked it was and left.
