Ask Americans what their religion is, and nearly 1 in 3 say this -- none. That’s according to the U.S. adults surveyed by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.

Nothing has changed that view in the ensuing decades.

“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. He also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. “I can’t buy into that,” he said.

  • @[email protected]
    39•1 year ago

    I think their point is that the pilgrims set the cultural precedents for what would later become America, to which later immigrants would be beholden.

    I don’t know how true that is, but I think “protestant work ethic” is at least one example of that sort of thing.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
      -32•1 year ago

      I think they can make their own point and there response was much different than what you just said

      • @Stabbitha
        21•1 year ago

        Except it wasn’t, your reading comprehension just sucks and you’re needlessly aggressive about it

      • @[email protected]
        -3•1 year ago

        I think you’re a dumb removed that made a completely worthless point about your family not being pilgrims. How bout that