Losing my religion

I ' m going to interrupt the series on medical costs for today and talk about religion. I ' m sure it won ' t come as a surprise to anyone that I am very pleased by the graph below.I took it from this Daily Kos diary about the actual meaning of " Christian " identity to Trump cultists, which is not really the main point of this post although it ' s relevant.The majority of poll respondents still say they identify as Christian, but it ' s a sharply declining majority. Furthermore, many people who say they identify as Christian do not attend church regularly. Church is for weddings and funerals and maybe Christmas and Easter to many people. For some people Christian is just an ethnic identity, as is Jewish for many people, who do not actually have firm religious convictions, if any. As I say, I am happy to see this trend, but my feelings about it are a bit complicated and I want to make myself clear, especially as I am undertaking the project of reading the Bible and people may wonder why I am doing that.When I was a child, we went to church every Sunday. In fact, my mother taught Sunday school, and my uncle was an Episcopal minister, the rector of Trinity Church on the Green in Branford, Connecticut, which is a national historical landmark and quite a spectacular building. When we moved from Branford to Madison, Connecticut, my family switched to the Congregational church, basically because it was the center of what was then the rural community in North Madison, and that ' s w...
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