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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1636076" data-attributes="member: 2189">Abandoning a certain form of organized religion does not equate to an abandonment of belief.&nbsp; There is a rise in so-called non belief, this is true but it doesn&#039;t come close to equaling the number of folk walking away from organized religion as a whole. And I suspect it never will either.&nbsp; Or if it does it may well take 1000&#039;s more years to get there.&nbsp; Our species IMO is too pre-wired for belief in external causes and interventions beyond our perceived reality.&nbsp; God made it, Jesus loves us, the devil tricks us, all this in the western christian world and yet you would find similar in other religious cultures as well to explain the lives we live in.&nbsp; And so many take great comfort in that too.Those who abandon organized religion while holding a belief in a higher cause I see as people in search of spirituality as opposed to some organized religious dogma.&nbsp; And I don&#039;t equate spirituality and religion with one another as it is possible to not be religious while still being a spiritual person.&nbsp; And I think to read such polling data to equate to an abandonment of ultimate belief would be a fool&#039;s errand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1636076, member: 2189"] Abandoning a certain form of organized religion does not equate to an abandonment of belief. There is a rise in so-called non belief, this is true but it doesn't come close to equaling the number of folk walking away from organized religion as a whole. And I suspect it never will either. Or if it does it may well take 1000's more years to get there. Our species IMO is too pre-wired for belief in external causes and interventions beyond our perceived reality. God made it, Jesus loves us, the devil tricks us, all this in the western christian world and yet you would find similar in other religious cultures as well to explain the lives we live in. And so many take great comfort in that too. Those who abandon organized religion while holding a belief in a higher cause I see as people in search of spirituality as opposed to some organized religious dogma. And I don't equate spirituality and religion with one another as it is possible to not be religious while still being a spiritual person. And I think to read such polling data to equate to an abandonment of ultimate belief would be a fool's errand. [/QUOTE]

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