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<H1>More Americans tailoring religion to fit their needs</H1>
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<H3><SPAN id=byLineTag>By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA
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size=3>People take part in a National Day of Prayer gathering in San Antonio in
May. Polls show that in 1991, 24% of U.S. adults hadn't been to church in the
past six months; today, it's 37%.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>That's one of the key findings in newly released research that reveals
America's drift from clearly defined religious denominations to faiths cut to
fit personal preferences.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>The folks who make up God as they go are side-by-side with
self-proclaimed believers who claim the Christian label but shed their ties to
traditional beliefs and practices. Religion statistics expert </FONT><A
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says, with a wry hint of exaggeration, America is headed for "310 million people
with 310 million religions."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>"We are a designer society. We want everything customized to our personal
needs — our clothing, our food, our education," he says. Now it's our
religion.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Barna's new book on U.S. Christians, <I>Futurecast</I>, tracks changes
from 1991 to 2011, in annual national surveys of 1,000 to 1,600 U.S. adults. All
the major trend lines of religious belief and behavior he measured ran downward
— except two.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>More people claim they have accepted Jesus as their savior and expect to
go to heaven.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>And more say they haven't been to church in the past six months except
for special occasions such as weddings or funerals. In 1991, 24% were
"unchurched." Today, it's 37% .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Barna blames pastors for those oddly contradictory findings. Everyone
hears, "Jesus is the answer. Embrace him. Say this little <I>Sinners Prayer</I>
and keep coming back. It doesn't work. People end up bored, burned out and
empty," he says. "They look at church and wonder, 'Jesus died for <I>this</I>?'"
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size=3>The consequence, Barna says, is that, for every subgroup of religion,
race, gender, age and region of the country, the important markers of religious
connection are fracturing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>When he measures people by their belief in seven essential doctrines,
defined by the National Association of Evangelicals' Statement of Faith, only 7%
of those surveyed qualified.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Barna laments, "People say, 'I believe in God. I believe the Bible is a
good book. And then I believe whatever I want.'"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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reinforces those findings: A new survey of 900 U.S. Protestant pastors finds 62%
predict the importance of being identified with a denomination will diminish
over the next 10 years.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Exactly, says Carol Christoffel of Zion, Ill. She drifted through a few
mainline Protestant denominations in her youth, found a home in the peace and
unity message of the Baha'i tradition for several years, and then was drawn
deeply into Native American traditional healing
practices.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Yet, she also still calls herself Christian.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>"I'm a kind of bridge person between cultures. I agree with the teachings
of Jesus and … I know many Christians like me who keep the Bible's social
teachings and who care for the earth and for each other," Christoffel says. "I
support people who do good wherever they are."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>And it's not only Christians sampling hopscotch spirituality. The Jewish
magazine <I>Moment</I> has an "Ask the Rabbis" feature that consults 14
variations of Judaism, "and there are many," says editor and publisher Nadine
Epstein.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>"The September edition of <I>Moment</I> asks 'Can their be Judaism
without God?' And most say yes. It's incredibly exciting. We live in an era
where you pick and choose the part of the religion that makes sense to you. And
you can connect through culture and history in a meaningful way without
necessarily religiously practicing," Epstein says.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Sociologist Robert Bellah first saw this phenomenon emerging in the
1980s. In a book he co-authored, <I>Habits of the Heart</I>, he introduces
Sheila, a woman who represents this.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Sheila says: "I can't remember the last time I went to church. My faith
has carried me a long way. It's Sheilaism. Just my own little voice. … It's just
try to love yourself and be gentle with yourself. You know, I guess, take care
of each other. I think God would want us to take care of each
other."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Bellah, now professor emeritus at University of California-Berkeley,
says, "Sheila was a jolt to some at the time. But to a lot of people, it wasn't
a jolt at all, they had been living that way for a while. Don't romanticize the
past. Fervent religiosity was always in the minority. Just because people showed
up in church didn't always mean a deep personal conviction or
commitment."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Bellah sees two sides to the one-person-one-religion trend. On the
positive: It's harder to hold on to prejudices against groups — by religion or
race or gender or sexuality — if everyone wants to be seen
individually.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>"The bad news is you lose the capacity to make connections. Everyone is
pretty much on their own," he says. And all this rampant individualism also
fosters "hostility toward organized groups — government, industry, even
organized religion."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Today, even the godless disagree on how not to believe, says Rusty Steil
of Denver.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>He grew up Lutheran and retained his parents' "strong moral code," but,
he says, he couldn't stick with "ancient myths of people trying to make sense of
the world."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>"I don't find much comfort in imagining there's an all-powerful God who
would allow people starving and all the natural and man-made disasters," Steil
says.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Steil calls himself a "live-and-let-live atheist," as apart from the
virulently anti-religious variety such as </FONT><A
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size=3> or </FONT><A title="More news, photos about Richard Dawkins"
href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Business,+Science+and+Technology+Figures/Richard+Dawkins"><SPAN
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or "those who actively promote disbelief."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Paul Morris, an Army medic at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and veteran of
six tours in the </FONT><A title="More news, photos about Middle East"
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says he has seen Christianity, Judaism and Islam in action, for better and for
worse, and, frankly, he'll pass.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Morris grew up "old-style Italian Catholic," but says he never felt like
his spiritual questions were answered. So, he says, "I just wiped the slate
clean. I studied every major religion on the face of the planet. Every one had
parts that made sense, but there was no one specific dogma or tenet I could
really follow," Morris says.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>"So now, I call myself an agnostic — one who just doesn't know. What I
believe is that if you can just do the right thing, it works
everywhere."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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