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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

If I may beg to differ, at least some people of faith see the existence of God (higher power, divine intelligence, unifying force or what have you) all around them. “The Heavens proclaim the glory of God, and the earth proclaims his handiwork; day unto day sings out his presence and night unto night his praise.”  The organized nature of what can be perceived in the universe is foundational to at least some of Aquinas’s proofs of God. Belief still requires faith but it can make use of reason to get there. [/quote]

Sure - OK to differ, especially in a free country like the US.  Some people believe it and others don't.  Quoting the Bible doesn't make a difference to people who don't believe in it.  Same for Aquinas's proofs of God and the concept of using reason to get to faith.[/quote]

The quotation is not offered as a “proof text,” but as the Psalmist’s expression of his conclusion that God can be discerned from nature.[/quote]

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