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Wellstone ruled

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12. As people deal with their

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #5)

Fri May 3, 2019, 10:57 AM

May 2019

personal self issues in something different that using a Religious Crutch,the numbers of non Church Goers increase.

Modern Social Media is the Old World's Religious Crutch's demise.

Reality that feeding the Sky Fairy just does not cut it any more.

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Painful Question: Why do so many Catholic parishes die? [View all] trotsky May 2019 OP

Living alone as a celebate priesthood in a small town crazytown May 2019 #1

What's painful about it? Cartoonist May 2019 #2

And the property returns to the real estate tax base exboyfil May 2019 #3

There are 5 churches on one main street near me. Merlot May 2019 #9

People move, neighborhoods change. Freethinker65 May 2019 #4

Irrelevancy? Scandal? Boredom? MineralMan May 2019 #5

As people deal with their Wellstone ruled May 2019 #12

It's only painful for the church coffers bitterross May 2019 #6

In Europe, disinterest in organized religion has already grown in many parts. Eyeball_Kid May 2019 #7

A friend of mine lived in an appartment in a converted old church Merlot May 2019 #11

White flight from central city and members dying off RandySF May 2019 #8

Established religions are dying out. We are just going the way that Europe went after WWII MaryMagdaline May 2019 #10