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LeopoldBloom · M
According to a recent poll, the reasons people are leaving church are:
Stopped believing in the religion's teachings
The religion's negative treatment of LGBTQ
Their family wasn't religious when they were growing up
Attending religious services was bad for their mental health
Clergy sex abuse scandals
Church was too focused on politics
The result is that fewer than half of Americans attend church at least once a month. The US seems to be late in following the trend seen in other Western countries of falling religious participation and the growth of "nones" when people are asked what religion they follow.
I was raised in a religiously observant home. However, I stopped believing in God at age 14 and stopped attending worship services because they were a waste of time. It's possible to treat religion like a social club irrespective of belief, but I wasn't getting any benefit from that.
Stopped believing in the religion's teachings
The religion's negative treatment of LGBTQ
Their family wasn't religious when they were growing up
Attending religious services was bad for their mental health
Clergy sex abuse scandals
Church was too focused on politics
The result is that fewer than half of Americans attend church at least once a month. The US seems to be late in following the trend seen in other Western countries of falling religious participation and the growth of "nones" when people are asked what religion they follow.
I was raised in a religiously observant home. However, I stopped believing in God at age 14 and stopped attending worship services because they were a waste of time. It's possible to treat religion like a social club irrespective of belief, but I wasn't getting any benefit from that.
