That perfectly describes one of my co-workers, who was recently married. The ceremony was totally "God" less.
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Posted on 09/22/2009 5:18:24 AM PDT by iowamark
They’ll discover God when they see their 1st Obama caused mushroom cloud.
http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/NONES_08.pdf
American Nones: The profile of the no religion population
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-09-22-no-religion_N.htm
USA Today: People with ‘no religion’ gaining on major denominations
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/09/22/survey-one-quarter-of-americans-could-claim-no-religion-in-20-years.html
US News: Survey: One Quarter of Americans Could Claim ‘No Religion’ in 20 Years
It's called the democratic party
not surprised, the main stream culture is focused on ‘no religion needed.’
H’mmm, going to hades in a prius?
It is interesting to see the different interpretations of this study. Liberals see it as good news that secularism has increased in America.
The rank apostasy of the Church doesn’t help much with revealing the beauty of Christ to unbelievers. It’s actually repulsive what much of what is called “the Church” does today.
Thanks to the schools and other institutions for spreading Anti-God propaganda!
Some find religion and some find God.
I think the fact that many of these people are of Irish descent probably means that many of them were from families that were Catholic...until the Church became the feminized, heresy-polluted, feel-good, Dem party annex that it is today in many dioceses.
Is a person automatically an evil person if they don’t believe as we do? Are all religious people good? The Nones probably believe in God, but not as seen or named in the books of the Bible, the Koran or any of the others that may exist. Do they rob, kill, covet their neighbor’s goods and commit adultery etc. I don’t think so. We live in a free country, we don’t have any official language or religion. If they don’t believe as we do so what? Goodness exists without having a deep religious commitment and Evil exists in some with a deep religious commitment. Your good neighbor can be a Nones and you probably don’t know it. That also goes for Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims in name only, who were born into the religion but not practicing it. Probably more of them than Nones.
I didn’t leave my church (Episcopal); my church left me.
Just because they don’t subscribe to a particular religion does not mean that they don’t believe in God or Christ. I could care less about any particular denomination telling me that their interpretation is the one true belief and that any deviation means hell.
That perfectly describes one of my co-workers, who was recently married. The ceremony was totally "God" less.
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Why is religion needed?
H’mmm, going to hades in a prius?
How do you know that?
34 million Americans without religion? We need a massive government program to provide these people with the religion they need.
They substitute earthly gods: quarterbacks, linebackers, power forwards, BJ Clinton, Comrade O, whoever makes Budweiser, etc. They have a system of morality determined by sports talk show hosts as moral authorities and, of course, sex, booze, drugs and what passes nowadays for rock and roll.
Sounds like a study that wants the number of non-religious to grow. No matter what the true figures the U.S. is much more religious than western Europe.
True, this country is being systematically secularized.
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