Justified or not, the cynicism that marked the death of the Big Idea has crippled organized religion as well.
"They say God laughs when we're referred to as an organized religion, and maybe we're seeing that here, " he says.
Some critics who say that Scouts have failed to change with the times blame the connections to organized religion.
Failing that, an impassioned denunciation of the existence of God and the dangers of organized religion should have done the trick.
The media are already probing into and constructing a Romney-As-Mormon Bishop profile, and so far only finding the usual apparent contradictions available in any organized religion.
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Organized religion is going to have to explain its necessity.
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Many couples may not be affiliated with an organized religion.
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My mother, whose parents were Baptist and Methodist, grew up with a certain skepticism about organized religion, and she usually only took me to church on Easter and Christmas -- sometimes.
"If you think about going from a hunter-gatherer society to this highly centralized society with an organized religion, it's a pretty dramatic change to take place over a very short period of time, " Haas says.
Some of the more prominent founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, were vocal about their opposition to organized religion, while other notable founders, like Patrick Henry, were strong proponents of traditional religion.
The prolific Mr. Hitchens author of the bestselling polemic against organized religion, "God is Not Great, " as well as books on Thomas Jefferson and Mother Teresa writes an average of 1, 000 words a day and says he has never missed a deadline.
Mainly, our target audience would be people who were like a lot of our newer members dissatisfied with their churches, but not willing to give up on organized religion as a way to express and live their faith, and influence how they passed it on to their families.
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Fortunately, Pilgrim Faith is attracting some new members, and my family, which started going there four years ago, was like just about all of them: coming from the local, dominant Catholic faith, and deciding that we and our families would rather have some church affiliation than leave organized religion entirely.
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Popular in Mexico, and sometimes linked to the illicit drug trade, the skeleton saint known as La Santa Muerte in recent years has found a robust and diverse following north of the border: immigrant small business owners, artists, gay activists and the poor, among others many of them non-Latinos and not all involved with organized religion.
But in recent years, the American perspective on religion has changed in a way that often favors private worship over organized religious services.
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