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57. Yes I agree

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:29 PM

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I believe that many of us have "private" religious convictions of one kind or another. Most of us were raised to believe in some kind of religion. It's the organized churches and all their failures (already mentioned above) that have turned us off.

I'm a baby-boomer, raised as a Catholic, and I almost never attend church any more. But I don't believe I'll ever join another church, it's just the idea of organized religion that turns me off. Also the anti-liberal politics and sexism that's prevalent in the Catholic Church now, why would anyone want to call themselves a "Christian" anymore?

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