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In reply to the discussion: Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time [View all]Jon King
(1,910 posts)21. At 7 years old I concluded organized religion was crap...
Mom made us go to church each Sunday, sing in the choir, be acolytes to light the candles, etc. Once day it all hit me.
The passing of the offering plate, then hearing that the pastor had just returned from a trip to a warm place with a handful of connected church people. After church walking to the car I heard several of the people just in the church singing hymns talking nasty about others, then they all raced to the one exit from the parking lot, trying to get out of there as fast as possible, cutting each other off, beeping, a few fingers.
That day as a young boy I realized it was all a bunch of phony BS. Good people are good people, no matter what they believe or don't believe as far as religion goes. Same for bad people.
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Sorry, you can't distribute loaves and fishes to people who are in line to vote. n/t
Beartracks
Mar 2021
#91
I'm go to a Buddhist church but I would answer "no" to this question becausee
Maraya1969
Mar 2021
#3
The make believe offered by religion is out of step with the stark realities
Sibelius Fan
Mar 2021
#6
"Light at the end of the tunnel." "Yes! There is a god, and he hates religion!" nt
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2021
#10
Not being able to go to a "church building" I thought would have an effect
LiberalLovinLug
Mar 2021
#83
Republican/Nazi morons are in churches. Can religion be any more meaningless.
johnthewoodworker
Mar 2021
#22
After my dad died when I was 12, there was no chance they were ever getting me. I'm still
brewens
Mar 2021
#31
I wonder how accurate this is, I know many religious people who would say they don't go to "church"
apnu
Mar 2021
#35