These "nones" aren't likely to think that we're a Christian nation, but they also aren't likely to think that churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and the like are obsolete.
Even now, when talking about my anxiety with other men, including those like-minded in challenging the obsolete rules of masculinity, my fears are often confirmed.
Like many of the obsolete weapons designed for the Home Guard, the Northover Projector was only taken out of service when it could be replaced with "marginally less ineffective" weapons provided by the Army, such as the 2-pounder anti tank gun.
By the 1970s, when I first scornfully giggled my way through it, Brief Encounter, which gets a release this Friday, seemed like a primer on the obsolete sexual mores of a society long vanished, like Pompeii or Atlantis.
Yet, because of the obsolete, factory-like nature of high school, which fails to propel at least a third of its students, and the confiscatory cost of college, the next rung up for 18-year-olds is becoming another haven for the rich.
It's just really like so obsolete.
Accompanying this revolution has been a fundamental shift in how scientists classify organisms, and this in turn has rendered terms such as mammal-like reptile obsolete.
Libraries have defied the conventional wisdom that Google, Wikipedia, and the like would make them obsolete.
Will LACMA's new building be like the 405 Freeway — obsolete before construction finishes?
Most important, traditional taxonomic categories (such as order, suborder, superfamily, and the like) are fast becoming obsolete, largely because they have no evolutionary meaning.
