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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]fewer parents raised their children to be religious, so fewer adults believe in god and thus do not raise their children to be religious.......[/quote]

My very Catholic parents raised us to be good Catholics when we were kids in the 70s. It was post-Vatican II and a bit of sunlight was leaking into The Church as I recall sitting in the front pew with a eight people serving on the alter with seven women/girls (choir director, organist, reader, alter girls) and just one man (our progressive rector). A decade later John Paul II had weeded out most of the progressives, the women were gone from our home church's alter and we all learned how the highest levels of the church actively covered up and extended the sexual abuse of children on a massive scale. Even my Mom quit attending. The whole structure was revealed to be rotten.

Fortunately, the individual faith and charity of my family and people in general continues. The large Catholic extended family of my youth has evolved into a mix of church members (almost all non-Catholic) and socially active citizens who continue to live God's love. Are we non-religious? I suppose some are but it depends on your definition.[/quote]

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