Patti had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining; much later, she wrote the line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" in her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience.
Practicing what he called a "ministry of reconciliation," he left organized religion to be a free agent for God, marrying, burying and counseling society's outcasts — especially poor whites and racists — from his log house in the boondocks of Tennessee.
When she became disillusioned with Catholicism, she didn't join a Protestant church – she left organized religion altogether.
Eventually, he left organized crime for real estate.
The defense has maintained that Mr. Gotti left organized crime in the 1990's.
For gay people who've left organized religion, the condescension that creeps in around the edges of his narrative begins to feel like contempt.
After he left organized baseball, his health declined rapidly.
My own experience is that many of them have just left organized religion.
Maybe you see in Corey's list one or more of the reasons why you've left organized religion or are thinking of leaving church.
Obama left organizing to attend Harvard Law School, and in 1990 he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
