Increasing anxiety, depression, body-shaming, bullying and suicide among people under 30 combine with an increasing number who have no religious affiliation. Read more.
Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. As Dulak rejects being part of a religious flock, he has plenty of company.
Story at a glance Nearly a third of Americans in a recent Associated Press-NORC poll said they have no religious affiliation. The recent poll, taken between May 11 and 15 of this year, found 30 percent of respondents saying they have no religious affiliation, whether they said they are agnostic, atheist or “nothing in particular.”…