Religion and the USA 1 (DOAC 2)

More people attend church or other religious services more often now than at any other point in US history (up a whopping 30% since 1990).  People love to say that our society is secularizing, yet it appears that we aren't.

Why then, would people claim that our society is secularizing.  It is probably because of truths that we have discovered.  We have discovered that most biblical stories are fundamentally at odds with science.  We have found that (whisper it now) intercourse may not be the forbidden fruit that we thought.  We have found that homosexuality, interracial marriage, divorce and many other ideals once seen as religiously immoral, are not actually immoral at all.

So, we have left god's side.  Why then do more people attend church than ever before.  I think that the main reason is that people like the "old fashioned" morals of church.  Who wants to raise their kids in a society with violence and sex running rabid. 

My sister, a professed atheist, vowed to take her children to Sunday School for "the community" and the morals.  I can't help but wonder why?  I understand that you want to indoctrinate your children (Brave New World, anyone?) into a society of similar ideas, but why would you want to do it through the (quite frankly) frightening religious stories.  The old testament is riddled with stonings and people offering their daughters to rape and their sons to die, perpetrated by "the good guys."  I would run from any religious building as fast as possible with my kids.