“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri.
In many countries around the world, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people who are nonbelievers or unaffiliated with any organized religion, so-called “nones.”
The decades-long rise of the nones — a diverse, hard-to-summarize group — is one of the most talked about phenomena in U.S. religion.
So that was kind of like, oh, I didn’t really fit, and people don’t like me.”.
Although he doesn’t believe in organized religion, he believes in God and basic ethical precepts.
But nones said in interviews they were happy to leave religion behind, particularly in toxic situations, and find community elsewhere.
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