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What’s your religion? In US, a common reply now is “None”
The Associated Press ^ | December 14, 2021 | By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU and DAVID CRARY

Posted on 12/14/2021 10:53:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left.

“I just don’t feel like that gelled with my view of what God is and what God can be,” said Charles, an 18-year-old of Haitian descent who identifies as queer and is now a freshman at Princeton University.

“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”

“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”

After leaving her New Jersey church three years ago, she identified as atheist, then agnostic, before embracing a spiritual but not religious life. In her dorm, she blends rituals at an altar, chanting Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu mantras and paying homage to her ancestors as she meditates and prays.

The path taken by Charles places her among the religiously unaffiliated -- the fastest-growing group in surveys asking Americans about their religious identity. They describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanmarxism; culturewar; god; none; religion; woke
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1 posted on 12/14/2021 10:53:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The churches have gotten away from teaching what Christ taught us and embraced the latest fad at every turn. It's no wonder this generation has become so lost.
2 posted on 12/14/2021 10:56:09 AM PST by dragonblustar (2 Peter 2:14,1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”

Translation: They wouldn’t make me comfortable while I was going to hell.

How dare they expect me to live a biblical lifestyle!


3 posted on 12/14/2021 10:56:11 AM PST by The Toddler (He that tooteth not his own horn;<i> The same shall not be tooted.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wish I could go to her church.
The ones around here have all gone woke.

I’m still a Christian.

I used to be a Catholic, but their refusal to deal with their pedophile priest problem caused me to leave.

I was very happily Methodist for years, but when we moved into the suburbs all the churches here are woke.


4 posted on 12/14/2021 10:57:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IOWs she doesn’t like what the Bible says about her chosen lifestyle.


5 posted on 12/14/2021 10:58:00 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What you believe is not necessarily your religion.


6 posted on 12/14/2021 10:58:15 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I would have guessed “Climate Change” as the new most common.


7 posted on 12/14/2021 10:59:28 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and that translates to DemocRAT...


8 posted on 12/14/2021 11:04:11 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They didn’t ask me. I’m a believer in Christ. It isn’t a religion but I’m good with that.


9 posted on 12/14/2021 11:06:40 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Michael.SF.

Those idiots don’t realize they are in a religion.


10 posted on 12/14/2021 11:07:56 AM PST by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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To: The Toddler

Well stated.


11 posted on 12/14/2021 11:09:01 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: dragonblustar

A lot, I’d say most, churches are now stand-up comedy style and a lot of rock music. Lots and lots of rock music. All the big non-doms are for sure.


12 posted on 12/14/2021 11:10:16 AM PST by Houserino
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The religion of the alt-far-left is Big Government.


13 posted on 12/14/2021 11:11:53 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I just don’t feel like that gelled with my view of what God is and what God can be,”

It is all about feelings.

Sounds like she thinks God should join the US army.

She has made her god.


14 posted on 12/14/2021 11:14:08 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: The Toddler
This isn't mine, I liberated it from FR a week or so ago, but I think it's truth should now be initiated.

There's too much and too many wokeism/wokeists.



15 posted on 12/14/2021 11:20:05 AM PST by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If someone asks me what my religion is, I’d tell them “None”. I belong to no major denomination anymore (thank you, Frankie), but when Covid broke out and churches didn’t want us anymore, a bunch of neighbors starting getting together to pray and discuss the Bible as only amateurs can and taking care of each other in the process. We’re quite happy with being “Christians without a church”.


16 posted on 12/14/2021 11:20:57 AM PST by Retrofitted
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To: Codeflier

It sounds like there are a wide variety of people who fit in both categories.

Many woke leftists claim they are religious and go to church.

Large institutions are just full of land mines these days.

It is not surprising that many folks choose not to walk across those fields.


17 posted on 12/14/2021 11:21:48 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: dragonblustar
The churches have gotten away from teaching what Christ taught us and embraced the latest fad at every turn. It's no wonder this generation has become so lost

According to this person she left because her views did not fit an almost 2000yr dogma that with all it's shortcomings has lasted. (she is just more knowledgeable than the Bible's teaching). If you're woke you will go broke - that's financially & spiritually.

18 posted on 12/14/2021 11:23:46 AM PST by Digger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative biblical views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left.
19 posted on 12/14/2021 11:27:08 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Michael.SF.

Global Warming will take on a whole new meaning for many in Hell for Eternity.


20 posted on 12/14/2021 11:31:55 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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