Anonymous
11/15/2025 10:31
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
You can believe in God and have faith and not be religious or practice a religion.
Anonymous
11/15/2025 10:16
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
Even I go for Christmas and Easter and I'm an atheist! I like the music and pomp.
I’m an atheist who goes to church for Christmas for the music only. I don’t go for Easter.
Anonymous
11/15/2025 10:14
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:I was raised Catholic, and it never spoke to me . . . just felt like a chore and lot of mumbo-jumbo. I stopped going to church when I was 15 and never looked back. I suppose I'm an atheist now. I raised my kids without religion playing any part in our lives.
Pretty much the same. My mom dragged us to mass every Sunday and we attended Catholic school K-12. I never related to any priest or their messages. Frankly, a middle aged unmarried man talking about stories that occurred 2000 years ago just didn’t resonate with me. My mom forced me and my sister to get confirmed, even though confirmation is supposed to be about you choosing the church. Once I got to college, I never went to church again. Over time, even my mom started going less and less.
Anonymous
11/15/2025 09:51
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Of course people are less reglious
Especially women
Religion is control run by snake oil salesmen
From the Heritage Foundation's incoming project 2025 which is horrific all under the guise of religion who would want to stay here?
Looks like it's working! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Anonymous
11/15/2025 09:39
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
What I liked about Covid is that you didn't have to go early to get a good seat at Midnight mass.
You can go late and still get a seat up front at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:50
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
What I liked about Covid is that you didn't have to go early to get a good seat at Midnight mass.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:48
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
God protected the true believers from covid.
ANd protected them from Church forever.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:47
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
Even I go for Christmas and Easter and I'm an atheist! I like the music and pomp.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:34
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
God protected the true believers from covid.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:33
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:All of the major religions are extremely patriarchal and it's kind of hard to keep enforcing patriarchy in a society where the women have more education, more medical degrees, more law degrees, more home ownership, more literacy, etc. It's kind of weird to be in a position of leadership all week, to be treated with respect and then be expected to go somewhere on Sunday morning where a dude who did less well in school and who has less education lectures you about how he understands the Bible. This feels particularly weird if you yourself have some graduate education in theology and you can literally identify all of his errors -- but in the patriarchal religion you would never be allowed to say mass or give a sermon. Instead, they make sure to let you know about all the openings in children's church and the nursery, because, well, you have breasts.
A-woman!
Anonymous
11/14/2025 16:28
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Covid killed a good bit of it. People stoped going to church and never went back. My sister’s in laws are in their 80’s went to Catholic Mass every week until Covid. Now they don’t even go for Christmas or Easter.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 15:57
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
All of the major religions are extremely patriarchal and it's kind of hard to keep enforcing patriarchy in a society where the women have more education, more medical degrees, more law degrees, more home ownership, more literacy, etc. It's kind of weird to be in a position of leadership all week, to be treated with respect and then be expected to go somewhere on Sunday morning where a dude who did less well in school and who has less education lectures you about how he understands the Bible. This feels particularly weird if you yourself have some graduate education in theology and you can literally identify all of his errors -- but in the patriarchal religion you would never be allowed to say mass or give a sermon. Instead, they make sure to let you know about all the openings in children's church and the nursery, because, well, you have breasts.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 14:46
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:I was raised Catholic, and it never spoke to me . . . just felt like a chore and lot of mumbo-jumbo. I stopped going to church when I was 15 and never looked back. I suppose I'm an atheist now. I raised my kids without religion playing any part in our lives.
If you don't believe in God, you're an atheist.
Anonymous
11/14/2025 08:58
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
That's a cornerstone this country was built on. If the church can't maintain interest without using public schools, then it's not much good, is it?
NO
Anonymous
11/14/2025 08:38
Subject: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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).
You're right! My mom told us that she used to say prayers in public school. She said that a friend of hers, who grew up to be a presbyterian minister, used to be embarrassed to keep going on the Lord's Prayer after all the Catholics had stopped.
I went to a religious private school where they did the Lord's prayer every morning and I'm an atheist now. If anything the uncomfortable indoctrination pushed me further away from religion.