Dying Away Religion

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Religion is dying away. We live in a place where society has now changed. Women can get married to women, men to men, men can be women, and women can be men. It’s pretty cool to see how we have grown.
But sometimes, it is a little scary because we have started to brand people of faith. First, it was the people of faith doing the branding, but now people who never met the “status quo” before a few years ago brand people of faith. Funny how how us younger generation claim to be the generation of free speech, free love and acceptance, but I noticed that we do not live up to that claim.
We brand the people of faith; Muslims, Catholics, Jews, scientologists, etc. We judge them all in one way or another: Muslims are terrorists or hate Christians, Jews are stingy or have nasally voices, Catholics are homophobes or are heavy drinkers, etc. The younger generation now shy away from religion. It is something I don’t quite understand. …show more content…

I am Methodist. I was raised to respect everyone's beliefs, even if I do not agree with them. I feel as though millennials are growing up and deciding to keep away from religion because people of any faith were branding those who did not fit their molds.
But, if we are the generation that teaches the next one that religion is wrong, religion itself will die out. We would lose beauty, lose stories, lose something so valuable to everyone–faith. Religion builds communities. It brings people together. Yes, religion can divide us and tear us apart, but only if we chose to ignore the perspectives of

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