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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO, there are a few reasons:

1. people are more educated and don't believe in some of the archaic teachings
2. people are turned off by the religiousity  and/or politicizing of God's teachings
3. people may want to connect with a group but not with a group that they have not much in common with  -- see #1 and #2
4. people have better things to do on Sundays

-long time church goer who stopped going due to all the above[/quote]

Sounds like you don't believe in organized religion, but still believe in god.  I wonder if there's a way to express god-belief with a like minded group, or if it's even needed.[/quote]

It's called Deism, it has "[i]existed since ancient times, but it did not develop as a religio-philosophical movement until after the Scientific Revolution[/i]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

BTW [b]there is no evidence for this unfalsifiable belief either.[/b]

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There's no evidence for any of it.  That's why it's called faith and why so many people experience feelings of losing their faith.  Sometimes they regain it; sometimes they don't.[/quote]

And sometimes people find faith when they didn’t have it before.[/quote]

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