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      <title>Comments On: Why Don&apos;t Portlanders Go To Church?
    
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    <author><![CDATA[DamosA]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I would agree with what Ice Cube didn't say.
        
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      <![CDATA[as Ice Cube wouldn't say: if you an apathetic motherfucker don't go to church.
        
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      <![CDATA[You got something to say, huh?
        
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, it sucks when people unlike you actually believe in something without irony. How very tolerant.
        
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      <![CDATA["I've done this work in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, and I think it's also important to note the racial and ethnic distinction—because with black youth, you get a totally different picture. Black youth, even with that sharp decline in religious identity, still participate in religious institutions at high rates."<br>
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This is pretty much true also. As a devoutly ANTI-religious person of color who grew up in GA, i can personally attest to just how unfortunate and disappointing this is. Christianity in particular, has been the greatest destroyer of ethnic culture there ever was!
        
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      <![CDATA[FYI that Monica will be on OPB's Think Out Loud today at noon, if you want to ask her questions directly.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well religion IS soo thoroughly revolting, it should be of NO surprise that more people are waning away from it. And all the better! But Jake is right - there IS a huge number of churches here. It seems unjustified that there should be soo many churches in Portland. <br>
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      <![CDATA[For a city so apparently Godless, as articles such as this would have one believe, there sure does seem to be a hell of a lot of churches here. Sure, they're of different Protestant strains and not the easily noticed, huge piles that Catholic churches tend to be, since Catholics never seemed to have a stronghold here, unlike many east coast cities with large Italian, Polish and French-Canadian populations, but I've noticed them everywhere, all over the city. I suppose many of them have a shrinking, if not non-existent base these days, but they're interesting to see in such a supposedly non-religious place.
        
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      <![CDATA[You stole this idea of writing such a story from the Portland Tribune!  They wrote this exact story; about a week or so ago; did a far better job too!  KEK!
        
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