Americans Reject Religion in Record Numbers, Study Shows

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59. I am close to eight decades ahead of the game.

My father had no religious affiliation. His father came to the Chicago area from Bohemia, and like a majority of the immigrants from that country who settled there, left the church. I remember him saying, "I'll vote for Kennedy even though he's Catholic and I know he wouldn't vote for me because I don't go to church."

At the park near where I lived as a child, in the summer people told bible stories to the kids in the only building that was there at the time. I had to have been six, because I wasn't allowed to cross the street the park was on until then. I took a friend of mine with and we listened to a couple of stories. He was Catholic and his parents forbid him to go again. I remember complaining to my parents, saying "They're just MADE-UP STORIES! "