Raised Catholic? That definitely requires more definition.
The secularist community may be growing but at the first sign of disaster, they will be the first ones to run into an abandoned church and ask for God's mercy.
Ping!
My Definition of “Raised Catholic” and “Raised Protestant”: Parents took children to church when the children were young. “Young” being defined as the years a child is under a parent’s care in being raised, but ending in late teen years. How, or how not, the parent passed on their religous faith is probably a factor in “raised ....” but no longer attending church/considering oneself as Christian.
“at the first sign of disaster”
That would be about the time the survey mentions — seven years ago. Lol
“at the first sign of disaster, they will ... run into an abandoned church and ask for God’s mercy.”
After 9-11 this happened briefly.
That was similar to my reaction to this news yesterday: that what we are experiencing is something cyclical rather than secular [in the "non-cyclical" sense of the term], that for all of our troubles in the last generation we still haven't come up against the manifestation of unmitigated crisis as occurred during the Civil War, or WWII.
There are two others possibilities, which are not mutually exclusive to each other nor to the cyclical theory. One is that as technology continues apace, the aspects of life that were previously answered by religion are now perceived as being answered by science: we go to doctors rather than prayer when we are sick, we go to the government rather than the church when we are poor, we go to science classes rather than Sunday school classes to understand the world, to psychologists rather than priests to deal with personal moral failings, to Facebook and Twitter, along with corporate workplaces, rather than the local congregation for fellowship.
The other is the perpetuation that opinion=truth, that if I "feel" something is true then it is true for me, and doesn't have to be true for anyone else. In an affluent society, one can run away from reality until death, when it is essentially too late.
I have family friend that was abused by Cathoic priest he sue LA Archidisoe now he is atheist
How about that theory there is growing number of Ex Cathoic in LA area who became another religion just gave up on religion
They feel “hurt” and judgemetial they drop the dime to LAPD on their abuse