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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you expect when schools aren’t allowed to teach religion? We are now a couple of generations past the 1962 ruling that really took religion out of public schools. Similar things have happened in other countries after church state separation. (I am not religious by the way but I’m always surprised that people don’t see the connection). [/quote]

Please, that is not even close to the right answer. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so 20+ years after the ruling. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, only about 5-6% of the public identified as religiously unaffiliated. Today, that figure stands at around 29%.

I grew up in an observant Catholic family. I would light votive candles as a “treat” at church if I slept over my grandmothers house and went to church with her. My husband and I were very observant until our kid’s CCD teacher made them think they were going to hell. This combined with the coverup of pedophilia and the Virginia Catholic Churches’ swing to the right and their support of Trump has totally turned us off. And we aren’t the only ones. Many parishioners left St. Agnes because of its right wing tilt and blatant political messaging (when the Church strictly forbids political messaging). And the rest of the Christians aren’t looking great either - having their own pedophilia problems and being overtly political, and frankly hateful.

People don’t identify as religious because the US is filled with a bunch of fake Christians, Jews, and Muslims that claim to love their neighbor and peace while doing the opposite.

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