Nothing to do with LGBT; What secular social contexts do you feel are as powerful as church and synagogue with regards to providing a platform for socializing?
I'm asking because I feel religion does provide much more in that regard to its adherents even without them putting effort into it, not that it is a reason to believe anything religious, but for someone who grew up religious and is no longer interested in the beliefs of that religion, there is much motivation to keep it to themselves and continue to be a part of church and synagogue socially, which doesn't really let society's voice on the matter be heard, meaning that many people are assumed to be religious when they are not because religion provides what is possibly harder for secular society to provide.
Sorry for the long run-on sentence, thanks if you do respond.
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Nothing to do with LGBT; What secular social contexts do you feel are as powerful as church and synagogue with regards to providing a platform for socializing?
I'm asking because I feel religion does provide much more in that regard to its adherents even without them putting effort into it, not that it is a reason to believe anything religious, but for someone who grew up religious and is no longer interested in the beliefs of that religion, there is much motivation to keep it to themselves and continue to be a part of church and synagogue socially, which doesn't really let society's voice on the matter be heard, meaning that many people are assumed to be religious when they are not because religion provides what is possibly harder for secular society to provide.
Sorry for the long run-on sentence, thanks if you do respond.
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