Sentence examples for abandoning organized from inspiring English sources

In 2012, the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University's Berkley Center surveyed "Millennials," people between the ages of 18 and 24, and found that huge numbers of young people were abandoning organized religion.

Despite the church's efforts to expand the Hispanic lay leadership and despite its support for undocumented immigrants, Latinos are leaving Catholicism for evangelical congregations or abandoning organized religion altogether.

The polls that show more Americans abandoning organized religion don't suggest a dramatic uptick in atheism: They reveal the growth of do-it-yourself spirituality, with traditional religion's dogmas and moral requirements shorn away.

But now we're living through the second aftershock, a backlash to that backlash — a revolt against the association between Christian faith and conservative politics, Putnam and Campbell argue, in which millions of Americans (younger Americans, especially) may be abandoning organized Christianity altogether.

Younger Americans are increasingly abandoning organized religion with one-third of Millennials citing the church's treatment of LGBT people as a key reason for their departure.

The two men, both born Roman Catholic, had abandoned organized religion, but wanted to raise their children within a faith.

Later in the 1960s, after appeals to Christian churches in the South to end segregation in their own ranks and actively fight discrimination, Mr. Campbell abandoned organized religion, though not his faith.

"Do you think it's good for me to hear that this stuff is challenged by the pope?" But Dr. Okarma, who said he abandoned organized religion decades ago, added that the views might change when the benefits of cell therapy were realized.

2. Democrats have abandoned organized labor.

Although Du Bois attended a New England Congregational church as a child, he abandoned organized religion while at Fisk College.

Those that fall into this lifestyle of delusional self-superiority have the most difficult time with people like me who have embraced our sexual identity and abandoned organized religion.