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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1175452002/church-closings-religious-affiliation

Wow - "Just 16% of Americans say religion is the most important thing in their life, according to a new report released this week by the Public Religion Research Institute.".

"The sharp uptick in the number of younger Americans with no religious affiliation — a group known as the "nones" — is the major driver in a seismic shift in the religious landscape, says Ryan Burge, a political science professor at Eastern Illinois University and author of The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going."

What are your thoughts?[/quote]

I think there are too many centers of organized religions, they provide limited services but preachers, rabbi and Imams eat up too much money. Its an industry. People of all religions are tired of that.[/quote]

Do you have any reputable citations about the money preachers, rabbis, and imams “eat up?”

Who are you speaking for besides yourself?

You are speaking for Christians, Jewish, and Muslim people? How do you have that authority?

What is your religion and your religious leadership training and education?[/quote]

pp is  expressing their opinion - no religious leadership training, "authority" or specific education needed.[/quote]

Wow so pp can just speak for 3 entire religious communities?

Is pp a member of any of these religious communities? They won’t answer.

Now they have no statistics, data, facts, etc. They just speak for 3 religions which are compromised of billions of people and then it’s taken as fact and even defended as valid by another poster merely because it’s an opinion.

newsflash: a person who speaks for 3 entire religions is probably off their rocker.

There are 2.6 billion Christians

There are 1.8 billion Muslims

There are 16 million Jewish people

And pp just casually threw their opinion out speaking for all of them.

Who are they to be the spokesperson for all 3 religions? That is extremely arrogant.

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They are expressing their opinion, just as you are.[/quote]

No- they are speaking for every Christian, Muslim, and Jew on earth.

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in your opinion[/quote]

No- pp at 15:52 said:

“I think there are too many centers of organized religions, they provide limited services but preachers, rabbi and Imams eat up too much money. Its an industry. People of all religions are tired of that.“

“I think there are too many centers of organized religion”

“They provide limited services”

“Preachers, rabbis, and Imams eat up too much money”

“It is an industry”

“People of all religions are tired of that”

pp: what is your religion?

How do you know what people of all religions are tired of?

How much money do you think pastors, rabbis, and imams make on average?

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DP - where is the part PP claims to be "speaking for every Christian, Muslim, and Jew on earth."?  I missed that.

Or were you just being a little hyperbolic and a lot dishonest?[/quote]

“Preachers, rabbis, and Imams eat up too much money”

“People of all religions are tired of that”[/quote]

Hmmm... still lacking the the part PP claims to be "speaking for every Christian, Muslim, and Jew on earth.[/quote]

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