Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions.
In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses. Pew Research Center.
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my mom: "I just want a community to hang out with on Sundays and sing comforting hymns with. I don't know why instead, everyone has to be weird about it."
If that's all churches did nobody would be celebrating their demise
I'm a proud atheist. And I get where she is coming from. Community is lacking and that's sad.
it's a vicious cycle under capitalism. community breakdown pushes people into dependency on products and subscriptions, which means they have to work more hours to afford them, which means they then need more products and subscriptions because they have less free time, but then they'll need to work more hours to afford it, repeat ad absurdum until social collapse
She should try joining a D&D group instead.
lol she'd make a great cleric
cleric character who is fed up with corruption and bigotry in their church and goes on a divine quest to establish the Church of We Just Want To Hang Out and Sing Hymns Without Anyone Making It Weird
