The book suggests that the defining problem driving out most people who leave is … just how American life works in the 21st century. Contemporary America simply isn’t set up to promote mutuality, care, or common life. Rather, it is designed to maximize individual accomplishment as defined by professional and financial success. Such a system leaves precious little time or energy for forms of community that don’t contribute to one’s own professional life or, as one ages, the professional prospects of one’s children. Workism reigns in America, and because of it, community in America, religious community included, is a math problem that doesn’t add up.
Just shooting from the hip here, but what if it’s also because church blows
I was raised a catholic. Catholic masses are the most painfully boring shit you could possibly imagine.
Every part is almost the same every time, even the part where the priest has a free-form sermon is the most bland shit imaginable. Sometimes some churches have "funny" and "down-to-earth" priests that spice things up a tiny bit but overall it's all horribly boring.