Lack of religious education has borne fruit, hasn't it!
Most of us had parochial school or Sunday School or catechism or confirmation instruction over periods of time when we grew up.
How many black yutes enjoy this opportunity or privilege today? How many even want to....or how many of them have a parent/parents who do NOT insist on at least SOME religious training? I'd love to see the statistics.
It's now do your own thing, baby....and if it feels good, do it, even if it's harmful to yourself and/or others.
Why SHOULDN'T you do "your own thing"! There's no "restrictive" religious authority....or religious "don'ts" anymore, is there!
Even replicas of the Ten Commandments have been expunged from public view across the fruited plain!
Then we have a president, the supposed moral leader of the country, who doesn't go to church anymore, not even for photo ops, not even on Christmas Eve or Christmas...... it might interfere with his golf outings.
Too many ministers, priests and rabbis as a whole today are mute on the lack of religiosity, religious education and religious discipline among youth, especially black males.
All too many of them appear to be assiduously making their houses of worship and religious education facilities more "progressive", "modern" and into jivey social centers.....with less instruction and less "thou shalt not" in order to (hopefully) lure in the young people....
(....and it ain't working, McGee).
Leni
Everybody has a religion. The question is only, towards what is it. Making it be towards God (in earnest, not just for show, which is really making it towards your circle of society) is beneficial in many a way.