Why People Move Away from Organized Religion

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Some scholars, like David Campbell, Geoffrey Layman and John Green in their book “Secular Surge,” have come up with new language to distinguish Americans by their beliefs, sorting us into four groupings: religionists, non-religionists, secularists and religious secularists.

Religionists are people who are “highly religious and don’t have much secularism in their lives.”
Non-religionists aren’t affirmatively secular, they just don’t have much of a religious worldview. “They haven’t really thought about truth, meaning, etc.,” he said. Secularists “have determined that they find truth in philosophy and science and sources like that, and not from religious texts.”
And religious secularists “see the world through a secular lens, but they also have a foot in a religious community.” They have “found a way to accommodate both ways of seeing the world.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/religion-nones.html
 
BidenPresident said:
Some scholars, like David Campbell, Geoffrey Layman and John Green in their book “Secular Surge,” have come up with new language to distinguish Americans by their beliefs, sorting us into four groupings: religionists, non-religionists, secularists and religious secularists.

Religionists are people who are “highly religious and don’t have much secularism in their lives.”
Non-religionists aren’t affirmatively secular, they just don’t have much of a religious worldview. “They haven’t really thought about truth, meaning, etc.,” he said. Secularists “have determined that they find truth in philosophy and science and sources like that, and not from religious texts.”
And religious secularists “see the world through a secular lens, but they also have a foot in a religious community.” They have “found a way to accommodate both ways of seeing the world.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/religion-nones.html
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Interesting but if i may say this doesn't seem to provide any information about WHY people move away from organized religion. Maybe that I info is behind the pay wall in your link? Could you address the WHY as the title says?
 
Yakuda said:
Interesting but if i may say this doesn't seem to provide any information about WHY people move away from organized religion. Maybe that I info is behind the pay wall in your link? Could you address the WHY as the title says?
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Fair question but removing the pay wall won't be much help in discovering a generalized "why". This is the full title:

"Why Do People Lose Their Religion? More Than 7,000 Readers Shared Their Stories."
 
martin said:
Fair question but removing the pay wall won't be much help in discovering a generalized "why". This is the full title:

"Why Do People Lose Their Religion? More Than 7,000 Readers Shared Their Stories."
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Thanks. I suspect there is a common thread as to why. If I ever run across the article on a free platform I think it would be an interesting read.
 
martin said:
It doesn't. There are categories but not explanations of why people chose them.
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When I followed up with these readers, three trends emerged. Several had switched religious affiliation more than once; I’ll call them seekers. Others had an abrupt break from church in their youth, after which they became atheists or agnostics; I’ll call them skeptics. And there were others who drifted away from religion fairly late in life; I’ll call them slow faders, because their religious evolutions took time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/religion-nones.html
 
BidenPresident said:
There are more people moving away from being believers. This is only based on the sample the author used.
But other sociologists have confirmed this.
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the thread title YOU provided: [h=1]Why People Move Away from Organized Religion[/h]
This suggests that you intend to offer an answer to this question but then you do not and now you seem to want to suggest you were only about the idea that it was happening and some irrelevant information about how to drive demographics.
 
I can give a very specific reason for why I abandoned the religion associated with my ethnicity even before reaching adulthood.

It spoke of a deity who was omnipotent, all-loving, and the creator of this universe.

I had only to wake up in the morning and look around to see

that if this universe was a deliberate creation,

it certainly wasn't created by anything that was,

at the same time,

both omnipotent and all-loving.

I'm not sure if a truly sane person can believe that it was.
 
Concart said:
All of them are. Christianity might be the best of the bunch, but it is still an awful, hateful cult responsible for millions of dead.
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Like abortionism responsible for 65 million deaths. Hitler would be jealous of how you voluntarily got people to so easily comply.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I can give a very specific reason for why I abandoned the religion associated with my ethnicity even before reaching adulthood.

It spoke of a deity who was omnipotent, all-loving, and the creator of this universe.

I had only to wake up in the morning and look around to see

that if this universe was a deliberate creation,

it certainly wasn't created by anything that was,

at the same time,

both omnipotent and all-loving.

I'm not sure if a truly sane person can believe that it was.
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You didn't get the pony you prayed for?
 
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